Citizen Kane is considered by many film critics the best movie that’s ever been made. Although it had only won one Oscar (for Best Original Screenplay), it took the first place in AFI’s 100 Years, 100 Movies, both in 1998 and in 2007 and topped most of the movie industry tops done after its release in 1941.
The film presents the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), a character that’s partly based on the real life media magnate William Randolph Hearst (what was interesting at the time was that Hearst prohibited its newspapers to mention anything about the movie). The storyline focuses on a reporter’s search to find out what Kane’s dying word – “Rosebud” – meant.