David Copperfield Wins Orson Welles’ Oscar at Auction

Kyle Turner December 20, 2011 1

I was a little wary and perhaps a bit annoyed upon learning that Orson Welles’ Academy Award for CITIZEN was to be auctioned off today, and that feeling still remains when the winner of the auction was named today. Illusionist David Copperfield bought Welles’ Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at an auction Tuesday for $861,542, says the Hollywood Reporter. It was Orson Welles’ only Academy Award win. The illusionist said the reason he bought it from auction house owner Nate D. Sanders was because “Orson Welles was not only a magician of the cinema but also a performing magician himself”. Copperfield is in possession of many other props from the iconic film. With the auction of the Oscar over, there still remains the question as to whether Academy Awards should be sold at all, something the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has tried to stop many times to no avail. Nonetheless, the iconography of CITIZEN KANE is still pure and everlasting.

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Born in GhongZhou, China in 1994, Kyle Turner’s love of cinema was fostered at an early age. Rather than brood him on the likes of Disney cartoons, Kyle’s parents instead exposed him to the cinematic classics of yesteryear, which have impacted his taste in art and film, his view on life, and his writing style. Declaring that he would become a film critic at a mere age 7, he started his own blog at the age of 13, which he has nurtured ever since. Kyle also enjoys school, reading, and writing satirical essays, and cites his inspirations and idols being Alfred Hitchcock, Andrew Sarris, Pauline Kael, Roger Ebert, A.O. Scott, and David Sedaris.

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