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WINNER:Best Original ScreenplayOrson Welles' masterwork
(#1 in the American Film Institute's list of Best
American Movies) remains grand entertainment, sharply
acted (starring 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 is
rooted in themes of power, corruption, vanity -- the
American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man’s
last word: “Rosebud.”A classic to this day,
Citizen Kane has only grown in stature over the past
70 years, although it wasn't exactly ignored at the
time of its 1941 release, garnering nine Oscar nominations,
including "Best Picture."
