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Orson Welles' masterwork dazzles anew in a superb 70th-anniversary digital transfer. It's grand entertainment, sharply acted (starting many of Welles' Mercury Players on the road to thriving film careers) and directed with inspired visual flair. Chronicling the stormy life of an influential publishing tycoon, this Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winner (1941) is rooted in themes of power, corruption, vanity - the American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man's last word: "Rosebud."
Original Release
04/17/1941
US Release
05/06/1941
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Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Joseph Cotten | Jedediah Leland / Screening Room Reporter |
| Dorothy Comingore | Susan Alexander Kane |
| Agnes Moorehead | Mary Kane |
| Ruth Warrick | Emily Monroe Norton Kane / Emily Norton Kane |
| Ray Collins | James W. Gettys / Jim W. Gettys |
| Erskine Sanford | Herbert Carter / Screening Room Reporter |
| Everett Sloane | Mr. Bernstein |
| William Alland | Jerry Thompson / Jerry Thompson/Narrator |
| Paul Stewart | Raymond |
| George Coulouris | Walter Parks Thatcher |
Directors
Writers
Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz, John Houseman, Roger Q. Denny, Mollie Kent
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Joseph Cotten | Jedediah Leland / Screening Room Reporter |
| Dorothy Comingore | Susan Alexander Kane |
| Agnes Moorehead | Mary Kane |
| Ruth Warrick | Emily Monroe Norton Kane / Emily Norton Kane |
| Ray Collins | James W. Gettys / Jim W. Gettys |
| Erskine Sanford | Herbert Carter / Screening Room Reporter |
| Everett Sloane | Mr. Bernstein |
| William Alland | Jerry Thompson / Jerry Thompson/Narrator |
| Paul Stewart | Raymond |
| George Coulouris | Walter Parks Thatcher |
| Fortunio Bonanova | Matiste / Signor Matiste |
| Gus Schilling | The Headwaiter / Screening Room Reporter / John |
| Philip Van Zandt | Mr. Rawlston |
| Georgia Backus | Miss Anderson / Bertha Anderson |
| Harry Shannon | Kane's Father / Jim Kane |
| Sonny Bupp | Kane III / Charles Foster Kane III |
| Buddy Swan | Kane - Age Eight / Young Charles Foster Kane |
| Orson Welles | Kane / Charles Foster Kane |
| Don Ackerman | Man at Party in Everglades |
| Loretta Agar | Dancing Girl |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| George Schaefer | Executive Producer |
| Orson Welles | Producer |
Editors
Trailers
Citizen Kane
Clips
Citizen Kane: Death
Citizen Kane: Kane For Governor
Citizen Kane: Kane Marries
Citizen Kane: Montage
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1942 | Oscar | Best Picture | Nominated |
| 1942 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated |
| 1942 | Oscar | Best Director | Nominated |
| 1942 | Oscar | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Won |
| 1942 | Oscar | Best Cinematography, Black-and-White | Nominated |
| 1942 | Oscar | Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White | Nominated |
| 1942 | Oscar | Best Sound, Recording | Nominated |
| 1942 | Oscar | Best Film Editing | Nominated |
| 1942 | Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture | Nominated |
