Citizen Kane loses to How Green Was My Valley

It's not that John Ford's adaptation of the Richard Llewellyn novel "How Green Was My Valley" was bad - in fact, it's considered a classic, and boasts Hollywood heavyweights Walter Pidgeon and Maureen O'Hara amongst its cast - but "Citizen Kane" (1941) is the best movie ever made, right? Well, its critical reputation is secure now, but Orson Welles' story of media magnate Charles Foster Kane, who was modelled after real-life media magnate William Randolph Hearst, earned a lot of aggro from those sympathetic to (or afraid of) the powerful Hearst. It's been reported that "Kane's" Best Picture win was foiled by bloc voting by Academy extras.