2.Herman Mankiewicz’s 1941 Best Screenplay Oscar for “Citizen Kane” – Price:$332,165
This poor statuette’s been through a lot over the years.
The 1941 production, “Citizen Kane” tells the story of how the world was trying to discover the final utterance’s meaning of a publishing tycoon.
The movie is rated by the American Film Institute as the greatest American movie ever made and won the Oscar for Best Screenplay.
But there was a true battle for this statue that was first sold for $861,542 at a California auction. Even the magician David Copperfield tried to get his hands on the statue!
After years of fighting over the statuette, after it went missing and reappeared in 1994, eventually it was sold at the Nate Sanders auction for $332,165.
