Citzen Cane

Charlie Kane is taken from his modest beginings to become on of the richest men in the world.goes to college flunks out of a lot of colleges gets bored and buys New York Inquire and becomes an Art Collector.. He has very loyal people who work with him who are with him for years. Kane goes to europe and meets Emily Monroe Norton and becomes engaged to her. Kane Dies and a reporter goes around and talks to people from Kanes past to see what his last word of ''rosebud'' means.. His first wife is presidents niece and she hates what he writes in paper about president and other things. He meets the woman who becomes his 2nd wife on side of a street. Kane runs for govenor and Jim Getties the incumbent blackmails the woman who becomes his 2nd wife to write his wife a letter so bad she goes to the house. He threatens Kane and his wife with printing in the papers of him seeing Mrs. Alexander. It cost Kane the `election for govrenor . Kane builds an Opera House for his 2nd wife Mrs. Alexander . He fires Jed Leland his best friend for writing a bad review about his wife Susie and Kane finished it. He built a huge estate called Xandau where his wife leaves him and he destroys her room after she leaves. He says rosebud when he picks up a water ball with fake snow then says it right before he dies… They never figrue out what rosebud means. The typical man is given wealth expands on it by himself and mismanages his life and money and dies seems like hopeless.Rosebud was the Sled he had when he was a kid and was taken from his mother. Very poor scale models in believe used for the outside of buildings and bridges in this movie When he has his speech for governor you can tell the people in audience are props..
Director: Orson Welles
Writers: Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles (Screenplay)
Release Date: May 1 1941
Genre: Mystery Drama

Academy Awards, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1942	Won	Oscar	Best Writing, Original Screenplay Herman J. Mankiewicz Orson Welles On Friday, July 19th, 2003, Orson Welles' Oscar statuette went on sale at an auction at Christie's, New York, but was voluntarily withdrawn so the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences could buy it back for just 1 dollar. The statuette, included in a large selection of Welles-related material, was going to be sold by Beatrice Welles, the youngest of the filmmaker's three daughters and the sole heir of his estate and was expected to sell at over 300,000 dollars.
	Nominated	Oscar	Best Actor in a Leading Role Orson Welles
			Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White Perry Ferguson Van Nest Polglase A. Roland Fields Darrell Silvera
			Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Gregg Toland
			Best Director Orson Welles
			Best Film Editing Robert Wise
			Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture Bernard Herrmann
			Best Picture
			Best Sound, Recording John Aalberg (RKO Radio SSD)
DVD Exclusive Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2001	Won	Video Premiere Award	Best Audio Commentary Roger Ebert (Warner).
National Board of Review, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1941	Won	NBR Award	Best Film
National Film Preservation Board, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1989		National Film Registry
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1941	Won	NYFCC Award	Best Film
Online Film Critics Society Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2002	Nominated	OFCS Award	Best Overall DVD

Cast

(Cast overview, first billed only)

	Joseph Cotten	...	Jedediah Leland
	Orson Welles	...	Charles Foster Kane
	Dorothy Comingore	...	Susan Alexander Kane
	Agnes Moorehead	...	Mary Kane
	Ruth Warrick	...	Emily Monroe Norton Kane
	Ray Collins	...	James W. Gettys
	Erskine Sanford	...	Herbert Carter
	Everett Sloane	...	Mr. Bernstein
	William Alland	...	Jerry Thompson
	Paul Stewart	...	Raymond
	George Coulouris	...	Walter Parks Thatcher
	Fortunio Bonanova	...	Signor Matiste
	Gus Schilling	...	The Headwaiter
	Philip Van Zandt	...	Mr. Rawlston
	Georgia Backus	...	Bertha Anderson