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Film Industry & Awards Terms, A to Z
Get an inside look at the business of movies — from the major film studios and streaming giants to awards season and international festivals. This category covers industry-specific terms, roles in the production pipeline, distribution models, and how the global movie market operates. Learn about producers, unions, release strategies, box office lingo, and more.
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All 835 Film Industry & Awards Terms
Listed alphabetically, each with its one-line answer first. This page runs from PVOD to Scriptment. S is the busiest letter here, with 90 entries. Jump to a letter to see only the film industry & awards terms that start with it.
Film industry & awards terms starting with P
1 of 64 on this page · all P entries
Film industry & awards terms starting with Q
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A QoS Monitor is a system or software tool used in film and broadcast production to continuously analyze network performance metrics and ensure the Quality of Service meets the stringent demands of real-time video streaming.
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Queerbaiting is a marketing tactic that hints at, but never explicitly confirms, same-sex romance or LGBTQ+ identity to attract a queer audience without alienating mainstream viewers.
Film industry & awards terms starting with R
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An individual or film that consistently generates significant box-office revenue.
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A rainmaker in the film industry is a highly influential individual, such as an actor, director, or producer, whose involvement can guarantee a film's financing and success.
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A production whose financial success single-handedly secures future studio profitability
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Return engagement of a film—often in remastered form—capitalises on anniversaries, restorations, or awards buzz.
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A film re-release is the practice of distributing a movie to theaters for a second time after its initial theatrical run has concluded.
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Rec. 2020 is the technical standard for Ultra High Definition (UHD) video, defining a much wider color gamut than its predecessor, Rec. 709.
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Rec. 709 is the international technical standard that defines the color space and signal characteristics for high-definition (HD) television.
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A trailer classification that permits mature content by featuring a red rating card and age restriction.
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A Red Band clip or trailer is a promotional video for a film that has been approved for a restricted, mature audience only, indicated by the red title card at the beginning.
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A red band trailer is an unrestricted promotional preview that features mature content and requires an R‑rating.
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A Red Carpet Look is the complete ensemble of clothing and accessories worn by a celebrity at a public event like a film premiere or awards ceremony.
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A red carpet premiere is a glamorous, high-profile event that celebrates the first public screening of a new film, attended by its stars, creators, and invited guests.
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A red screen is a type of test screening for an unfinished film, shown to an audience with visible timecode, watermarks, and other security overlays to deter piracy.
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Policy of writing multiple independently verified tape copies stored in separate locations for resilience.
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Release windowing is the strategic scheduling of a film's availability across different distribution platforms over time to maximize revenue from each channel.
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A Renewable Energy Credit (REC) is a tradable, non-tangible commodity that represents proof that one megawatt-hour of electricity was generated from a renewable energy resource.
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The resell market is a secondary marketplace where buyers and sellers trade limited-edition goods, like sneakers or collectibles, often at prices far above their original retail value.
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A residual payment is a royalty paid to performers, writers, and directors for the reuse of their work in markets beyond its original exhibition.
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Compensation paid to performers and creators for repeat uses of a production
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A film restoration project is a complex and often expensive undertaking to rescue and repair decaying film materials, preserving cinematic history for future generations.
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A retention curve is a graph that visualizes audience engagement by showing what percentage of viewers are still watching at every point in a video.
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Premium projection light source using discrete red, green, and blue lasers for wide gamut and high brightness.
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Rights clearance is the fundamental and meticulous legal process of identifying and obtaining permission to use all third-party intellectual property that appears in a film.
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The Right of Publicity is an individual's legal right to control and profit from the commercial use of their name, image, likeness, and other recognizable aspects of their personal identity.
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A rise to fame is the transformative journey of an individual in the film industry from obscurity to widespread public recognition and stardom.
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A special film release strategy featuring limited, event-style screenings with premium presentation.
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Layer-2 technique that batches many transactions and posts compressed data and proofs to a base chain.
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Rotten Tomatoes is a review‐aggregation website that scores films based on critic consensus.
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A payment made to rights holders based on usage or revenue generated by their work
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A royalty-split smart contract is a self-executing blockchain program that automatically and transparently distributes a film's earnings to stakeholders according to pre-defined percentages.
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Regal Premium Experience (RPX) offers oversized screens, upgraded projectors and 7.1 audio as a mid-tier alternative to IMAX.
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Run-time encryption is a core DRM security method that only decrypts content in a device's memory at the exact moment it's needed, preventing piracy.
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Runaway production is a term used by the film and television industry to describe productions that leave their home country to film in another jurisdiction to take advantage of lower costs and government incentives.
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A runway show is a live event where a fashion designer presents their upcoming clothing line, often influencing cinematic costume design and celebrity style.
Film industry & awards terms starting with S
23 of 90 on this page · all S entries
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The Safe Harbor Provision of the DMCA is a legal shield that protects online service providers from liability for copyright infringement committed by their users, provided they promptly remove infringing content upon proper notification.
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A SAG Interim Agreement was a contract offered by the SAG-AFTRA union during its 2023 strike that allowed independent productions to continue filming.
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SAG-AFTRA is the American labor union representing over 160,000 performers and media professionals, including actors, broadcast journalists, and recording artists.
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Sales and distribution is the overarching process of licensing a finished film and managing its release to audiences across various platforms.
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Commercial direct-view LED cinema platform offering HDR-like contrast and modular sizing.
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Legacy Chinese media regulator whose responsibilities later evolved into agencies including NRTA.
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The Satellite Awards are annual accolades given by the International Press Academy to honor artistic achievements in the fields of film, television, and new media.
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A Schedule of Minimums is a foundational document within a film industry union agreement that dictates the minimum wages, working conditions, and benefits for its members.
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Scope-3 emissions are all the indirect greenhouse gas emissions from a film production's value chain, such as air travel, making them the largest and most challenging category to reduce.
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A labor union representing film and television actors in the United States, known for its annual awards.
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The Screen Actors Guild Awards are accolades given by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists to recognize outstanding performances in film and television.
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The Screen Extras Guild was a historical American labor union that represented film and television background actors from 1946 to 1992.
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A global trade magazine specializing in international film business and festivals.
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Screener codes are unique, time-sensitive digital credentials that provide access to pre-release or awards-consideration films for industry professionals.
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Any scheduled showing of a film, from test audience previews to critics’ press nights, informs edits and marketing.
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ScreenX extends the image onto 270-degree side walls, immersing audiences in a panoramic triptych beyond the proscenium.
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Script coverage is a professional evaluation summarizing and critiquing a screenplay.
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Script coverage is a standardized report that analyzes a screenplay's strengths and weaknesses, providing a summary and recommendation for industry decision-makers.
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A specialist hired to revise and polish an existing screenplay under tight deadlines.
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A script editor is a professional who works directly with screenwriters to develop and refine a screenplay's story, structure, and characters.
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A screenwriting competition connecting writers with industry professionals.
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Script registration is the act of filing a copy of a finished screenplay with an official organization to create a time-stamped record of the author's claim to the material.
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A scriptment is a hybrid pre-writing document, most famously used by director James Cameron, that blends the detailed prose of a story treatment with the formatting and key dialogue of a screenplay.
Other categories
The Other Seven Categories
The rest of the glossary, each with its own A to Z index: filmmaking craft, genres and styles, characters and tropes, storytelling, pop culture and fandom, general terms, and the odd ones out.
