who wrote the story of it?
Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles.
Citizen Kane
 Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, it won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles.
citizen kane did not do well at the box office although it was praised by critics Hearst's disruption of the film's release damaged its box office performance and, as a result, it lost $160,000 during its initial run. is it a film? Yes - a 1941 American drama film who directed it? Orson Welles where is he from? Wisconsin, United States where was it filmed? UNANSWERABLE when did it's trailer come out? UNANSWERABLE
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Citizen Kane [SEP] Introduction
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles, its producer, co-screenwriter, director and star. The picture was Welles's first feature film. Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, it won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles. Considered by many critics, filmmakers, and fans to be the greatest film ever made, "Citizen Kane" was voted as such in five consecutive British Film Institute "Sight & Sound" polls of critics, and it topped the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as its 2007 update.