Orson Welles

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Wayne Campbell’s love interest won Grammys in 2009 and 2011 for Best Hawaiian Album, though sadly, her work on the jungle-tastic music video for “Ain’t Got No Reason For Reaction” went unrecognized by the voters. 13. Orson Welles Orson ...  

Screening of Welles' masterpiece at former home of William Randolph Hearst will lay to rest long-running feudWhen Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane first hit cinemas in 1941, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst was distinctly unimpressed: the similarities between himself and Welles' creation Charles Foster Kane were too strong to be ignored. The powerful press baron went out of his way to derail the movie. Now, more than 70 years...  

The Oscar that Orson Welles won for writing the screenplay to Citizen Kane - considered to be one of the finest films of all time -  has been sold for nearly $1 Million. The actor and filmmaker won the best Screenplay Academy Award in 1942 and his coveted 'gold man' is now tarnished ...  

By all accounts, Hearst was angry over her portrayal. Decades later, Welles agreed: "I always thought he was right to be upset about that," he said in a 1969 interview with director Peter Bogdanovich. In the film, Charles Foster Kane dies alone in his ...  

Orson Welles an Oscar for Citizen Kane, but its sale at auction has opened the lid on the murky world of the trade in the famous statuettes – and questions over just who should profit from the saleThe auction sale of Orson Welles's best screenplay Oscar statuette for Citizen Kane for $861,542 (£549,721) is an intriguing insight into the strange, occult world of Oscar fetishism and the Oscar "black market". It might also open an old wound in...  

WorstPreviews.comDavid Copperfield Buys Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" OscarWorstPreviews.comDavid Copperfield bought Orson Welles' best original screenplay Oscar for "Citizen Kane" at an auction on Tuesday. The magician paid $861542 for the statuette, outbidding several other collectors. Despite being named the best film of all time by many ...David Copperfield Totally Lost Out on Orson Welles's OscarMovielineDavid Copperfield Wins Orson Welles...  

The sole Oscar legendary actor/writer/director Orson Welles received for “Citizen Kane” has sold at auction for $861,542. The statuette for best original screenplay — the only non-honorary Academy Award Welles won — was purchased by an anonymous buyer, according to auction house Nate D. Sanders. Magician David Copperfield, who owns props from the 1941 film, also bid on the Oscar, saying he admired Welles “not only a magician of the cinema...  

Hollywood's treatment of Citizen Kane's maker is no surprise from an industry that gives Oscars to so many dud films• Charles Saatchi's 109 movies not nominated for best pictureHow do you handle failure? I handle failure very badly. Bitterly. Indignantly. Girly tears. I once saw a three-hour BBC interview with Orson Welles, and if it is possible to fall for a man just from seeing him on the telly, Mr Welles has had me as his love slave since...  

A buyer in the US snaps up Welles's only non-honorary Oscar, awarded for the screenplay for his 1941 masterpieceThe Oscar that Orson Welles won for Citizen Kane's screenplay has sold for $861,542 (roughly £550,000) at a California auction house.The award, sold and bought anonymously at Nate D Sanders Auctions, was awarded to Welles at the 1941 Academy Awards for his groundbreaking debut feature, which he also directed and starred in. Among the...  

LOS ANGELES — The Academy Award statuette that Orson Welles won for the original screenplay of "Citizen Kane" was auctioned for more than $861,000 Tuesday in Los Angeles. Nate D. Sanders Auctions spokesman Sam Heller said bidders from around ...  

Monsters and Critics.comOrson Welles` Oscar for Citizen Kane up for saleMonsters and Critics.comBy Isla Harvey Dec 17, 2011, 16:13 GMT The Oscar that Orson Welles won for writing the screenplay to Citizen Kane - considered to be one of the finest films of all time - is set to be sold. It is considered to be one of the finest films of all time. ...  

Magician David Copperfield bid for the "Citizen Kane" Oscar but came up short. Nate D. Sanders Auctions spokesman Sam Heller said bidders from around the world, including David Copperfield, vied for the statuette. Copperfield, who was outbid ...  

William Randolph Hearst did all he could to torpedo Orson Welles' epic movie. Welles triumphed then, and triumphs more now: "Seventy-one years after Hearst's effort to derail it, 'Citizen Kane' will be shown at Hearst Castle's visitors center, with the blessings of the Hearst family."...  

Music inspired by Orson WellesFFWDIn 1965, Orson Welles co-wrote, directed and starred in what many, including Welles himself, considered his best work, Chimes at Midnight. Abstract and non-linear like many of his films, it is with this in mind that Calgary's Scars & Scarves named ...