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Scream king
A scream king is an actor prominent and influential in horror films, the male counterpart to "scream queen", with examples from Bruce Campbell to Ethan Hawke.
Scream of the Shalka
Scream of the Shalka: 2003 six-part BBCi Flash-animated Doctor Who webcast by Paul Cornell, starring Richard E Grant as an alternate Ninth Doctor, overshadowed by the 2005 TV revival.
Scream queen
Scream queen: an actress prominent in horror films, wordplay on screen queen. Early icon Fay Wray (King Kong, 1933); archetypal modern figure Jamie Lee Curtis; distinct from Clover's Final Girl; label contested by Barbara Crampton.
Scream Queens (2015 TV series)
Scream Queens (2015 TV series), Fox horror-comedy anthology by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan; two seasons, 23 episodes (2015-2016), sorority slasher with Emma Roberts and Jamie Lee Curtis, canceled 2017, later a cult favorite.
Scream VI
Scream VI is a 2023 American slasher horror film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the sixth installment of the Scream franchise, following survivors hunted by Ghostface in New York City.
Screamboat
Screamboat (2025) is an American horror comedy directed by Steven LaMorte, starring David Howard Thornton as a murderous Steamboat Willie on a Staten Island Ferry, made after the 1928 cartoon entered the public domain.
Screamers (1995 film)
Screamers is a 1995 science fiction horror film directed by Christian Duguay, starring Peter Weller, adapted from Philip K. Dick's "Second Variety" and released in the United States in 1996.
Screen Actors Guild
Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Hollywood performers' union founded 1933, won its first studio contract in 1937; merged with AFTRA on March 30, 2012, forming SAG-AFTRA; its awards show became the Actor Awards in 2026.
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 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.
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.
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.
Screwball comedy
Screwball comedy: Hollywood romantic-comedy subgenre of the mid-1930s to early 1940s, born of the Depression and the Production Code, marked by fast dialogue, battle-of-the-sexes plots, and films like It Happened One Night and Bringing Up Baby.
Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip (David Meads, born 1981), Essex spoken word poet and hip hop artist of Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip ("Thou Shalt Always Kill"), Distraction Pieces podcast host, and actor in Taboo and Debris.
Scrooge (1951 film)
Scrooge (1951), aka A Christmas Carol, is Brian Desmond Hurst's British adaptation of Dickens, starring Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge; a US box office failure that became the definitive, most faithful Christmas Carol film.
Scrooge (1970 film)
Scrooge (1970 film): British musical adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, directed by Ronald Neame, written by Leslie Bricusse, starring Albert Finney and Alec Guinness; first big-screen musical and first color version, later a Christmas TV staple.
Scrooge McDuck
Scrooge McDuck, or Uncle Scrooge, is Disney's rich Scottish uncle of Donald Duck, created by Carl Barks in "Christmas on Bear Mountain" (Four Color #178, 1947), named for Dickens's Ebenezer Scrooge, later starred in his own Uncle Scrooge comic (1952), Don Rosa's Life and Times, and DuckTales.
Scrooged
Scrooged (1988) is a Richard Donner Christmas comedy starring Bill Murray as TV executive Frank Cross in a modern A Christmas Carol adaptation; Metascore 38, IMDb 6.9, Paramount.
Scrublands (TV series)
Scrublands is an Australian crime drama series adapted from Chris Hammer's novel, following journalist Martin Scarsden (Luke Arnold) in the drought-stricken town of Riversend; two Stan seasons plus Scrublands: Trust (2027).
Scrubs (TV series)
Scrubs is Bill Lawrence's American medical comedy sitcom, starring Zach Braff, Donald Faison, and Sarah Chalke at Sacred Heart Hospital; it ran on NBC from 2001 and ABC through 2010, and returned as an ABC revival in 2026.