Orson Welles nominated for Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
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1933: Welles's stage production of Twelfth Night for the Todd School for Boys received first prize: 330  from the Chicago Drama League after competition at the Century of Progress Exposition of 1933, the Chicago World's Fair.
1938: As director of the Mercury Theatre, Welles received the New York Drama Study Club Award for "the greatest contribution toward a living, breathing theatre this season".
1939: For "his most conspicuous contribution this last year to the theatre and to radio drama," Welles received the Essex County Symphony Society's first annual Achievement Award.
1941: Citizen Kane received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Picture.
1942: The National Board of Review voted Citizen Kane Best Film of 1941, and recognized Welles for his performance.
1942: Citizen Kane received nine nominations at the 1941 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Welles. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, an award Welles shared with Herman J. Mankiewicz.
1943: The Magnificent Ambersons was nominated for four 1942 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
1945: On May 24, 1945, the Interracial Film and Radio Guild honored Welles for his contributions to interracial harmony through radio. Presented at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, the guild's second annual awards ceremony also honored Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Norman Corwin, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Lena Horne, James Wong Howe, Earl Robinson, Nathan Straus and Miguel C. Torres.: 214–215 
1947: The Stranger was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
1952: Othello won the Palme d'Or at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
1958: Although Universal Pictures did its best to prevent Touch of Evil from being selected for the 1958 Brussels World Film Festival—part of the Expo 58 world's fair—the film received its European premiere and Welles was invited to attend. To his astonishment, Welles collected the two top awards. Touch of Evil received the International Critics Prize, and Welles was recognized for his body of work.
1959: Welles received a special 1958 Peabody Award for The Fountain of Youth, the only unsold TV pilot ever so honored.
1959: For their ensemble work in Compulsion, Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman and Dean Stockwell shared the prize for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival.: 425 
1966: Chimes at Midnight was screened in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 1966 Cannes Films Festival and won the 20th Anniversary Prize ("Honneure") and the Technical Grand Prize. In Spain, it won the Citizens Writers Circle Award for Best Film.
1968: Welles was nominated for Best Foreign Actor in a Leading Role at the 21st British Academy Film Awards for his performance in Chimes at Midnight.
1970: The Venice Film Festival awarded Welles the Golden Lion for Career Achievement.
1970: Welles was given an Academy Honorary Award for "superlative and distinguished service in the making of motion pictures." Welles did not attend the ceremony: "I didn't go, because I feel like a damn fool at those things. I feel foolish, really foolish. ... I made a piece of film and said that I was in Spain, and thanked them.": 511 
1975: Welles received the American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award.
1976: Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album for "Great American Documents", shared with Helen Hayes, Henry Fonda and James Earl Jones.
1978: Welles was presented with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Career Achievement Award.
1979: Welles received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording for the complete motion picture soundtrack for Citizen Kane.
1979: Welles was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
1981: Welles received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording for his role on Donovan's Brain.
1982: In Paris on February 23, 1982, President François Mitterrand presented Welles with the Order of Commander of the Légion d'honneur, the highest civilian decoration in France.: 449 : 207 
1982: Welles was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture at the Golden Globe Awards for his role in Butterfly, the same role that had him nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor, won by Ed McMahon in the same film, which also won the award for Worst Picture.
1983: Welles was made a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.: 508 
1983: Welles was an inaugural recipient of the British Film Institute Fellowship.
1984: The Directors Guild of America presented Welles with its greatest honor, the D. W. Griffith Award.
1984: Welles received a Special Fellowship from The Academy of Magical Arts.
1985: Welles received the Career Achievement Award from the National Board of Review.
1988: Welles was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.
1993: The 1992 audiobook version of This is Orson Welles by Welles and Peter Bogdanovich was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album.
1998: In 1998 and 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Citizen Kane as the greatest American movie. These other Welles films were nominated for the AFI list: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, director/producer/screenwriter); The Third Man (1949, actor); Touch of Evil (1958, actor/director/screenwriter); and A Man for All Seasons (1966, actor).
1999: The American Film Institute acknowledged Welles as one of the top 25 male motion picture stars of Classic Hollywood cinema in its survey, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars.
2002: Welles was voted the greatest film director of all time in two British Film Institute polls, of directors and critics.
2002: A highly divergent genus of Hawaiian spiders Orsonwelles was named in his honor.
2003: A crater on Mars was named in his honor.
2007: A statue of Welles sculpted by Oja Kodar was installed in the city of Split, Croatia.: 256 
2013: On February 10, 2013, the Woodstock Opera House in Woodstock, Illinois, dedicated its stage to Welles, honoring the site of his American debut as a professional theatre director.
2015: Throughout 2015, numerous festivals and events observed the 100th anniversary of Welles's birth.
2017: A survey of critical consensus, best-of lists, and historical retrospectives finds Welles to be the second most acclaimed director of all time (behind Alfred Hitchcock).
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