About
Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Cast
William Alland
Jerry Thompson/Narrator
Orson Welles
Charles Foster Kane
Joseph Cotten
Jedediah Leland
Dorothy Comingore
Susan Alexander Kane
Ray Collins
Jim W. Gettys
George Coulouris
Walter Parks Thatcher
Agnes Moorehead
Mary Kane
Paul Stewart
Raymond
Ruth Warrick
Emily Norton Kane
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Lists
#72 on IMDb top 250 IMDb
#1 on 1,000 greatest films They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
#28 on Empire's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time Empire
Awards
Oscar for Best Writing, Original Screenplay Orson Welles Herman J. Mankiewicz
Oscar nomination for Best Director Orson Welles
Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Gregg Toland
Oscar nomination for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White Van Nest Polglase Darrell Silvera