One.
After
the disappointing box office results of Citizen Kane,
RKO tried to bury Welles' follow-up vehicle, an expensive
film adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize winning
novel The Magnificent Ambersons, by releasing it in B-run
movie theatres as a double bill with the Lupe Velez
programmer The Mexican Spitfire Sees A Ghost. It was
considered a major surprise when the film received
four Oscar nominations, including one for Welles as
the producer of the Best Picture. He lost the award to
Sidney Franklin for Mrs. Miniver, and was never nominated
again. He did receive an honorary award for lifetime achievement at
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