Finalists: Fiyero's Wicked showcase, "Dancing Through Life", in that dizzying library; "Rock DJ" marks a cheeky night on the town setpiece in Better Man; Joan Baez provides A Complete Unknown booked highlights from her mesmerizing intro ("House of the Rising Sun") and her irritated duet exit ("It Ain't Me Babe")

Semi Finalists:  "One Short Day" in Wicked mainly due to those great cameos, Elphaba's Disneyfied 'i want' song "The Wizard and I" from Wicked; and "Closer" in The Idea of You

Note: * While we normally force any "ending" into that category, ruling it ineligible for the other individual scene categories, we've made a spiritual exception for this act-one closer. "Defying Gravity" is far more of a 'to be continued' moment than it is a proper ending so we've placed it in this more fitting category instead

Finalists: "Mighty Mouse" saves the day, awkwardly, in Saturday Night; and "Make My Smile Real" is another fun 'this movie will try anything!' flourish in The People's Joker

Semi Finalists: "Total eclipse" audition in The Last Showgirl; Woody sings the American classic Fly Me to the Moon; Puppet Show in Monkey Man; "Aint Misbehavin" at the piano in Blitz, Milton Berle with Dancers in Saturday Night Live

Note: * If a musical number is part of another scene category, like openings or endings or whatnot, it goes there instead.

Finalists: Strange Darling ...chapter 3; Fremen ambush spice harvesters in Dune Part Two; the calamitous arrival of The Wild Robot

Semi Finalists: two immortals in a stabby car brawl in Deadpool & Wolverine, Road House's first bar brawl upon arrival; Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl's climactic pursuit of Feathers McGraw in the canals; an assassination attempt in Monkey Man.

CHALLENGERS
Zendaya & Mike Faist & Josh O'Connor

FALL GUY
Ryan Gosling & Emily Blunt 

THE IDEA OF YOU
Anne Hathaway & Nicolas Galatzine

THE OUTRUN
Saoirse Ronan & Papa Essiedu

Finalists: Jenna Ortega & trickster Arthur Conti's fateful floating kiss in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice; Nicole Kidman is justifiably conflicted about the first kiss with her intern Harris Dickinson in Babygirl; Scarlett Johansson & Channing Tatum finally kiss in Fly Me to the Moon

Semi Finalists:  Kristen Stewart & Katy Bryant's final kiss in Love Lie's Bleeding; Bill Skarsgard's count is undone by Ellen's passionate commitment in Nosferatu; Dolly DeLeon & Keith Kupferer as 'Romeo & Juliet' in Ghostlight; and Ruaridh Mollica & Jonathan Hyde as Sebastian and his john

BABYGIRL
Nicole Kidman & Harris Dickinson

Finalists: All We Imagine as Light's sun-dappled outdoor tryst; Kristen Stewart & Katy O'Brien and... fingers in Love Lies Bleeding; and Willa Fitzgerald & Kyle Gallner's disturbing violent foreplay in Strange Darling's "Chapter 1: Mr Snuffles"

Semi Finalists: First time excitement in T he Idea of You (Anne Hathaway & Nicholas Galatzine); The Brutalist 's (Adrien Brody & Felicity Jones) complicated consummations of a distant marrage; Kneecap's Irish tourettes; and Nightbitch's (Amy Adams & Scott McNairy) dirty shower

* any scenes that are opening or closing go in those categories instead

Finalists: Anora "Hi, I'm Ani" on loop; Strange Darling's jarring "are you a serial killer" prologue - then immediately in media res; The Outrun mythology of selkies

Semi Finalists: Nightbitch's supermarket speech; Kneecap Irish History; Problemista invented world; and amateur Shakespeare in Sing Sing

Finalists: Benji alone in a crowd again at the end of A Real Pain; Fly me to the Moon's path-crossing black cat; Delusions like ripples warping our reality in the chilling climax to The Apprentice.

Semi Finalists The Brutalist 's Biennale Speech; Late Night with the Devil's bloody reveal 'So it is done'; A final performance for The Last Showgirl who was "Beautiful That Way"; Sebastian journey is now an open book --"Ask me anything";

Best Credit Sequence / Title Design

LISA FRANKENSTEIN

(opening credits)

Sideways and diagonal blocks plus intertitles

(opening & ending credits)

Pages of script with credits

(opening credits)

 Distorted faces and that haunted ghostly cursive title script

(opening credits)

History of The Creature and that half frottaged title

(intertitles)

  The use of ALL CAPS filling the frame has rarely been this appropriate

Finalists: Different Man's (opening credits) visualizations of experimental facial procedures; A hoarder's home with hand painted opening credits in Memoir of a Snail; moody illustrated woods and hangings in the opening credits of The Thicket; and, finally Anora opening credits red curtains

Semi Finalists: Trap's butcher map is subtle but cool (closing credits), The Room Next Door's color changes (closing credits), S trange Darling's blood red nonlinear breaks (opening & chapter titles)

BABYGIRL

BLITZ

CHALLENGERS

DUNE PART TWO

Finalists: Explosion at the Conclave; A cat learns to fish in Flow; A licorice exchange in The Thicket; An impossible, no, Unstoppable mountain hike; And Mr Melancholy's haunting attack in I Saw the TV Glow

Semi-Finalists: Nightbitch has a powerful realization with other moms; Cool guys don't look at explosions and neither does Thelma for wildly different reasons; Choosing the "Belief" door in Heretic ; a dream sequence in Queer; Sisters in the cemetery in Hard Truths; Maddy's monologue in I Saw the TV Glow; Macrinus claims his new home in Gladiator II;