Directed by Orson Welles
An Academy Award-winning mystery drama film directed by Orson Welles. Winner of Best Original Screenplay, with 7 additional Oscar nominations including Best Picture.
◈ CrunchScore
Top 1%
of all movies · weighted by audience size & source agreement
★ TMDB Audience Rating
8.0/10
6K ratings
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.
Awards
Matched by mood, pacing, and story
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