[RayChuang88]

The big reason why Citizen Kane didn't win a whole bunch of Oscars was the fact the film was more or less a thinly-disguised biography of William Randolph Hearst--and Hearst used well-known entertainment columnist Louella Parsons, a close family friend, to successfully lobby AMPAS to essentially boycott the film, preventing it from being nominated for most Oscars.

[Calvin Locke]

I saw Patty Hearst on Carson eons ago. "Citizen Kane" came up, and she said she saw it in high school one day, and went home and asked her parents if it really was "about" Gramps.

"Oh no, not in the least.", they responded.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

The controversy and pressure to not release “The Interview” was actually what prompted me to watch it again, since Hearst’s bullying of Welles was the closest analog to what was happening that I could think of.

Hopefully that will be the last time I ever think or speak of the two pictures in the same sentence again.