American director, actor and broadcaster who shook two media before turning thirty: his 1938 Mercury Theatre radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds became the most famous broadcast in radio history, and Citizen Kane in 1941 rebuilt the vocabulary of the sound film with deep focus, layered sound and fractured narration.
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Defining ContributionCitizen Kane, 1941; the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast 2 Classification
AwardAFI Life Achievement Award 1 Connections
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Directed, produced and co-written by Welles; Herman J. Mankiewicz shared the screenplay Academy Award.
Source A History of Narrative FilmDavid A. Cook
Source Wikipedia: F for Fake
Source The Mercury Theatre on the Air (Wikipedia)
Source The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama) (Wikipedia)
Directed and narrated by Welles for the Mercury Theatre on the Air; Howard Koch wrote the script.
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1. Orson Welles (Wikipedia)
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George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915, October 10, 1985) was an American actor and filmmaker.
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Welles has been praised as "the ultimate auteur". He received an Academy Award and three Grammy Awards among other honors and accolades such as the Golden Lion in 1947, the Palme D'Or in 1952, the Academy Honorary Award in 1970, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1975, and the British Film Institute Fellowship in 1983.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.- Birth Year: 1915
- Death Year: 1985
- Nationality: American
- Defining Contribution: Citizen Kane, 1941; the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast
View the Source A History of Narrative Film
David A. Cook, W. W. Norton, 2016Works Created: Citizen Kane
Wikipedia: F for Fake
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director = Orson Welles
The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama) (Wikipedia)
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Orson Welles
The Mercury Theatre on the Air (Wikipedia)
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The Mercury Theatre on the Air is a radio series of live radio dramas created and hosted by Orson Welles.
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