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Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, the ensemble award under the renamed Actor Awards, honors a feature film's full acting cast; voted by 122,000+ SAG-AFTRA members, requires single-card billing, and is a key Oscar bellwether.

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, also under the Actor Awards name, is the SAG-AFTRA peer-voted film award for a woman's lead movie performance, first given in 1995; recent winners include Michelle Yeoh, Lily Gladstone, Demi Moore, and Jessie Buckley for Hamnet.

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

SAG-AFTRA film award for a male actor in a leading role, presented since 1995; first won by Tom Hanks for Forrest Gump; renamed Actor Awards in 2026; current winner Michael B. Jordan for Sinners.

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

SAG-AFTRA honor for a film's stunt performers and coordinators, introduced at the 14th SAG Awards in 2008 with first winner The Bourne Ultimatum; announced on the red carpet, most recently won by Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series

The SAG-AFTRA honor for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series, added in 2007 and presented on the Actor Awards red carpet, recognizes a series' stunt performers and coordinators; Game of Thrones won it eight straight years (2013-2020).

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, also called the drama ensemble Actor Award, honors a TV drama cast; voted by SAG-AFTRA members; winners include The Crown, Succession, Shōgun, and The Pitt.

Screen Actors Guild Awards

The Screen Actors Guild Awards, renamed the Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA for 2026, are peer acting awards voted on by over 118,000 eligible SAG-AFTRA members, featuring ensemble prizes and held two weeks before the Oscars since 1995.

Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award

The Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award is SAG-AFTRA's highest tribute, given since 1962 (first recipient Eddie Cantor) for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment; recent honorees include Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Harrison Ford, and Al Pacino.

Screen Awards (music)

The Screen Awards, also known as the Star Screen Awards, are annual awards for Hindi cinema presented by The Indian Express Group, first held in the mid-1990s.

Screen burn-in

Screen burn-in, also called phosphor burn, is permanent image retention on a display caused by static elements like logos or game HUDs wearing pixels unevenly.

Screen door

A screen door is a door fitted with a mesh panel that lets air through an exterior opening while keeping insects out, usually mounted in front of a solid door.

Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders

The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) is a 41-item questionnaire completed by a child and a parent to screen for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents.

Screen Gems

Screen Gems, also known as Screen Gems Inc., is the name of several Columbia Pictures businesses: an animation studio, a television subsidiary, and a Sony film label.

Screen Gems (animation studio)

Screen Gems was a cartoon studio of Columbia Pictures, descending from Charles Mintz's studio. It produced theatrical shorts until 1946, closing after years of operating in the red.

Screen Junkies

Screen Junkies is an American YouTube entertainment channel founded by Break Media in 2008, best known for the Emmy-nominated Honest Trailers parody series; owned by Defy Media from 2013 and Fandom since July 2018.

Screen printing

Screen printing, also known as silkscreen printing, is a technique that forces ink through a mesh screen with a stencil onto textiles, signs, and electronics.

Screen reader

A screen reader is software that reads a computer or mobile device screen aloud as speech or braille, used mainly by blind and low-vision people.

Screen tearing

Screen tearing: display artifact where one screen shows parts of two GPU frames as a horizontal shear, occurring when frame rate and monitor refresh rate are unsynchronized; fixed by VSync, FreeSync, or G-Sync.

Screen time

Screen time: time spent on screens (TV, computers, smartphones, tablets). Also called screen-based sedentary behavior; studied for links to depression, sleep, and child development, with small, context-dependent associations.

Screen-printed electrode

A screen-printed electrode is a disposable electrochemical electrode made by printing conductive ink, typically carbon, onto plastic or ceramic substrates, best known in portable glucose biosensors.

Screen-printed silicon solar cell

A screen-printed silicon solar cell is a crystalline silicon photovoltaic cell whose silver and aluminum contacts are applied by printing metal paste through a screen mesh and firing it.

Screencast

A screencast, also called a screen recording or video screen capture, is a digital video recording of computer screen output, typically with audio narration, used for tutorials and training.

Screening (medicine)

Screening, also known as a screening test or health screening, is the testing of apparently healthy, asymptomatic people to detect unrecognized disease early, as in cancer or newborn screening.

Screening design

A screening design is a statistical experimental plan that identifies the few significant factors among many candidates, emphasizing main effects, and typically opens a sequence of experiments.

Screening Eagle Technologies

Screening Eagle Technologies is a Zurich-based inspection technology company, founded in 2019 over the instrument maker Proceq and the software firm Dreamlab, combining NDT instruments with cloud, AI, and robotics software.

Screenplay

A screenplay is the standardized written blueprint for a film or TV production, with scene headings, action, and dialogue; historically called scenario and continuity script, one page roughly equals one minute of screen time.

Screensaver

A screensaver, also known as a power saver, is a program that runs automatically after user inactivity, originally preventing phosphor burn-in on CRT monitors and later serving security and entertainment purposes.

Screenshot

A screenshot, also known as a screencap or screen dump, is a digital image of all or part of a device's screen, captured by the device itself.

Screenwriter

Screenwriter: the writer of screenplays for film, television, and video. Covers Aristotelian structure, script doctors, the writer-director trend, WGA 2023 AI protections, and the 2026 contract.

Screenwriting

Screenwriting: the craft of writing screenplays for film and TV, called scenarios or continuity scripts in early cinema. Covers silent-era origins, 1930s format standardization, script coverage, and WGA AI protections.