{"id":8525,"date":"2011-12-21T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T20:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/?p=8525"},"modified":"2011-12-21T16:03:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T21:03:39","slug":"orson-welles-citizen-kane-oscar-sells-for-861542-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/orson-welles-citizen-kane-oscar-sells-for-861542-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Orson Welles&#8217; Citizen Kane Oscar sells for $861,542 at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KaneMPC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8527\" title=\"KaneMPC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KaneMPC-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KaneMPC-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KaneMPC.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meandorsonwellesthemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Orson Welles&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/oscar.go.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Academy Award<\/em><\/strong><\/a> won for writing the classic, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsite.org\/citi.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Citizen Kane<\/em><\/strong><\/a>&#8221; was sold to an undisclosed buyer yesterday for $861,542 at <a href=\"http:\/\/natedsanders.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Nate D. Saunders Auctions<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Oscar<\/em>\u00a9 was given to<em> Welles<\/em> and co-writer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herman_J._Mankiewicz\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Herman J. Mankiewicz<\/em><\/a>, for best screenplay of\u00a0 their 1941, film, &#8220;Citizen Kane&#8221;. The statue was offered for sale by another auction house in 2007 but did not sell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KaneSideMPC.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8528\" title=\"KaneSideMPC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KaneSideMPC-124x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KaneOscarFront.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8529\" title=\"KaneOscarFront\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KaneOscarFront-125x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KaneBackMPC.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8531\" title=\"KaneBackMPC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KaneBackMPC-116x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small><em>*Photos \u00a9Nate D. Saunders Auctions and their respective owners.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<iframe id=\"basic_facebook_social_plugins_likebutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moviepropcollectors.com%2Fmagazine%2Forson-welles-citizen-kane-oscar-sells-for-861542-at-auction%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:px; height:25px\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Orson Welles&#8217; Academy Award won for writing the classic, &#8220;Citizen Kane&#8221; was sold to an undisclosed buyer yesterday for $861,542 at Nate D. Saunders Auctions. The Oscar\u00a9 was given to Welles and co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz, for best screenplay of\u00a0 their 1941, film, &#8220;Citizen Kane&#8221;. The statue was offered for sale by another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,4,9],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-forum","category-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8545,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions\/8545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}