(NAME OF THE STUDIO)

Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it: (Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, Marvel Studios, Dimension, Miramax etc.).

(PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)

Director's first credit, often "a film by XY or "a XY film". STARRING

Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, or as in all three film versions of Show Boat, or, as in many of Disney's films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors; sometimes, as in many of Cannon's films, the name(s) of the principal actor(s) will be shown before the name(s) of the producer(s). (FILM'S TITLE)

Name of the film. FEATURING

Featured actors. CASTING or CASTING BY

Casting director.

MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY

Composer of music. PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Production designer.

Some of these may be included: SET DESIGN COSTUMES or COSTUMES BY HAIRDRESSER MAKE-UP ARTIST SOUND RECORDING VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY

EDITOR or EDITED BY

Editor. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Director of photography. PRODUCER or PRODUCED BY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Producers, co-producers, executive producers, 'also produced by' (credited for various reasons according to contracts and personal scrutiny of the principal producer). Often, though, the name of the producer will be the next-to-last opening credit, just before the director's name is shown. STORY or STORY BY

Person who wrote the story on which the script is based, gets "story by" credit, and the first screenplay credit, unless the script made substantial changes to the story. WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY

Screenplay writers. The Writers Guild of America allows only three writing credits on a feature film, although teams of two are credited as one, separated on the credits by an ampersand ("X & Y"). If each works independently on the script (the most common system), they are separated by an "and". If more than two persons worked on the screenplay, the credits may read something like "screenplay by X & Y and Z and W" X and Y worked as a team, but Z and W worked separately. DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BY

Director. The Directors Guild of America usually permits a film to list only one director, even when it is known that two or more worked on it. Exceptions are made in rare cases such as a death, and subsequent replacement of the director mid-production.