The Scream Awards was an award show dedicated to the
horror,
sci-fi, and
fantasy genres of feature films. Originally only having
Scream Queen and
Heroic Performance awards for actors, the personnel awards have expanded to include actors and actresses of all three recognized genres. In addition, comic books awards were also given and have been recently expanded. It is broadcast on
Spike TV and has been branded in the past as the
Spike TV Scream Awards. Recently, the show has become labeled simply
Scream with the respective year, i.e.
Scream 2009. The show was created by executive producers
Michael Levitt, Cindy Levitt, and Casey Patterson.