Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane Page 102
Herman Mankiewicz was also absent from the Academy Awards ceremony. Mank stayed home, believing that Hollywood lived in dread of Hearst and that he would be humiliated by a loss, according to Richard Meryman. The film’s hero, RKO studio president George Schaefer, took the stage to collect the golden statuette and had it delivered to Mank’s home with “congratulations and best wishes from a high-priced office boy.”