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Scream
1996
· Movie
· 111 min
B
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1448
- IMDb #991
- Google retired #1011
- Rotten Tomatoes #1702
- Metacritic #1082
- Letterboxd #554
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2185
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1614
- Metacritic Critics #1861
- Metacritic Audience #229
- Criticker #1696
- Douban #1460
- Kinopoisk #1726
- AlloCiné #1398
- Trakt #587
Every rating
49–90
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 49, highest is Google on 90.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A year after her mother's murder, a teenage girl becomes the target of a new killer who wears a ghostface mask and knows an unsettling amount about horror movies. As the body count rises, she and her friends must uncover the killer's identity by using the rules of horror films themselves to survive.
Details
- Director
- Wes Craven
- Writer
- Kevin Williamson
- Studio
- Dimension Films, Woods Entertainment
- Released
- 20 December 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $14.0M
- Box office
- $173.0M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 1997 MTV Movie Awards 1996 | Best Movie | Nominee | |
| 1997 MTV Movie Awards 1996 | Best Performance | Neve Campbell | Nominee |
| 23rd Saturn Awards 1996 | Best Writing | Kevin Williamson | Winner |
| 23rd Saturn Awards 1996 | Best Supporting Actor | Skeet Ulrich | Nominee |
| 23rd Saturn Awards 1996 | Best Supporting Actress | Drew Barrymore | Nominee |
| 23rd Saturn Awards 1996 | Best Horror Film | Winner | |
| 23rd Saturn Awards 1996 | Best Director | Wes Craven | Nominee |
| 23rd Saturn Awards 1996 | Best Actress | Neve Campbell | Winner |
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23rd Saturn Awards
6 nominations, 3 won
| Best Actress | Neve Campbell | Winner |
| Best Horror Film | Winner | |
| Best Writing | Kevin Williamson | Winner |
| Best Director | Wes Craven | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Skeet Ulrich | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Drew Barrymore | Nominee |
1997 MTV Movie Awards
2 nominations
| Best Movie | Nominee | |
| Best Performance | Neve Campbell | Nominee |