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Which Academy Award did Citizen Kane win?
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Citizen Kane (1941), which was directed, produced, and cowritten by Orson Welles, received nine Academy Award nominations in 1942. Of those nominations, the film won a single Oscar for Best Screenplay, awarded to Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz.12