Director: Orson Welles

Orson Welles directed Citizen Kane at twenty-five with a contract giving him control no first-time filmmaker had received, and the deep focus, overlapping sound and fractured chronology were all in service of the idea that a person cannot be summarised. Hearst tried to suppress it. RKO recut The Magnificent Ambersons and destroyed the excised footage, and Welles spent the rest of his career funding films through acting work.