Awards and Honors

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Academy Awards

Won

Best Original Screenplay, Citizen Kane. 1941. (shared with Herman Mankiewicz)
Academy Honorary Award--”Superlative and distinguished service in the making of motion pictures.” 1970

Nominated

Outstanding Motion Picture, Citizen Kane. 1941
Best Director, Citizen Kane. 1941
Best Actor, Citizen Kane. 1941
Outstanding Motion Picture, The Magnificent Ambersons. 1942
Grammy Awards

Won

Best Spoken Word Recording, Great American Documents (shared with James Earl Jones, Helen Hayes, and Henry Fonda) 1976
Best Spoken Word Recording, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Citizen Kane. 1978
Best Spoken Word Recording. Donovan’s Brain. 1981
Other Film Awards

Won

Palme d’Or 1952 Cannes Film Festival
Career Golden Lion Award 1970 Venice Film Festival
American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, 1975
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Career Achievement Award, 1978

Nominated

Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival, The Stranger. 1947
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture, Golden Globe Awards, Butterfly. 1982

Rankings, Honors, and Distinctions

American Film Institute Rankings

#1--AFI’s 100 Years...100 Movies--Citizen Kane (best movie of all time) 2007
#1--AFI’s 100 Years...100 Movies--Citizen Kane 1998
#16 Greatest Male Star of All Time 1999

Other Rankings and Awards

#1--Sight and Sound’s list of Best Movies of All Time--Citizen Kane consecutively from 1961-2011
#2--Sight and Sound’s list of Best Movies of All Time--Citizen Kane. 2012
#9--American Movie Channel’s “The Greatest 100 Movies of All Time”. Citizen Kane
Winner, Library of Congress National Film Registry, 1941
Winner, New York Film Critics Circle Awards--Citizen Kane 1941
Winner, Luchino Visconti Award, David di Donatello Awards. 1983
Grand Prize, Canne Film Festival, 1952
Best Actor, Canne Film Festival, 1959 (for Compulsion)
Inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame 1972
Order of Commander of the Legion d’honneur, 1982
Statue in his image, sculpted by Oja Kodar and erected in Split, Croatia, 2008

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