THE HISTORY OF SOUND
"Silver Dagger"

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS
"Soda Pop"

SINNERS
"I Lied To You"

SONG SUNG BLUE
"Play Me"

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
"Worship"

Finalists: The ambitious musical Kiss of the Spider-Woman finally nails the execution in "Where You Are", a disassociate ode to, well, Disassociation; And in Wicked For Good, Glinda reflects on her character arc from her pink gilded age with "Girl in the Bubble"

Semi Finalists: The free non-endorsed concert in The Choral is a cathartic revelation for the grieving audience; Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere's finally finds some rock and roll energy with this no-duh recording moment when everyone realizes that "Born in the USA" will be a massive hit. Sinners goes full riverdance for the (too brief) vampiric showstopper "Rocky Road to Dublin"; Concert heaven with "Forever in Blue Jeans" from Song Sung Blue , And Elphaba and Fiyero consummate their relationship in "As Long As You're Mine" from Wicked For Good

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

 DIE MY LOVE
"In Spite of Ourselves"

A NICE INDIAN BOY
"We Go Together"

NO OTHER CHOICE

PADDINGTON IN PERU
"Let's Prepare For Paddington"

ROOFMAN
"No Room At the Inn"

Adorable dating and new relationship energy montage

Twin sequences, a practice for the dance and the costume party

Finalists: Dreams - Staircase dream with Gran and the dancers; Kill the Jockeys two jockeys dancing

Semi Finalists: Pillion 'singing contest' (day off), Hedda "It's Oh So Quiet" Downton Abbey "Poor Little Rich Girl", Lilies Not For Me - monster dance, Vogueing in the park in Baby

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

AVATAR FIRE & ASH

FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS

JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

TRON ARES

Finalists: Jurassic World Rebirth - Mososaurus vs Boat; Novocaine - From bank to kitchen with Nate in pursuit; F1 The Movie - the climactic race

Semi Finalists: Superman - The Hammer unmasked (final three person to two-person battle); Fantastic Four - Franklin's Birth / Light Speed Escape; 28 Days Later - Pursued by Alpha (Dusk / Dawn), And finally the climax of Avatar Fire & Ash - angry sea creatures and hand to hand on floating rocks. It may be a complete retread of Way of Water's climax but there's still no one else with Cameron's command of action setpieces.

PILLION
Alexander Skarsgárd & Harry Melling

VIE PRIVEE
Jodie Foster & Daniel Auteuil

Finalists: Dakota Johnson & Chris Evans can't hide their true feelings in Materialists... as much as they'd like to; Mia & Michael's furtive funny stolen kisses in The Phoenician Scheme; and Jonathan Groff & Karan Soni decide to give it a go in A Nice Indian Boy

Semi Finalists: Brad & Kerry's sudden embrace in FI: The Movie; Nanyoung and Jay's tender smooch in   Lost in Starlight; Pedro & Vanessa are believably devoted in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Michelle Dockery makes a quick mistake with Allessandro Nivola in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

DIE MY LOVE
Jennifer Lawrence & Robert Pattinson

HAMNET
Jessie Buckley & Paul Mescal

MICKEY 17
Naomi Ackie & Robert Pattinson

PILLION
Alexander Skarsgard & Harry Melling

VIET AND NAM
Duy Bao Dinh Dao & Than Hai Pham

Finalists:Sinners Michael B Jordan & Wunmi Moskau have a fiery rekindling "your body ain't forget me";  Honey Don't Margaret Qualley & Aubrey Plaza get freaky from bar to bedroom;  Twinless - Dylan O'Brien & James Sweeney go to pound town in a flashback.

Semi-Finalists: Oh Hi! handcuffs Logan Lerman to the bed but Molly Gordon gets so distracted, The Testament of Ann Lee's Amanda Seyfried & Christopher Abbott with a 'dirty book', Love - a one night stand / swim, The History of Sound - second Saturday with Paul Mescal & Josh O'Connor 

GRIFFIN IN SUMMER

NO OTHER CHOICE

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

SENTIMENTAL VALUE

SUPERMAN

 "I have it all" - (famous last words)

 An essay. This house is a full character.

 Krypton to the Rescue. In media res

Finalists: Yelena's heart just isn't in this anymore in Thunderbolts*; In the planetarium, entranced Elio moves straight towards his new plan "Aliens abduct me!!!"

Semi Finalists:The bees are dying in Bugonia  and it's all by design; An awkward funeral with strangers in Twinless; Korda survives a plane crash in The Phoenician Scheme; A pregnancy test in The Fantastic Four First Steps... it's a miracle!; In Honey Don't the mystery kicks off with a car crash and stolen ring

HAMNET

LEFT-HANDED GIRL

A NICE INDIAN BOY

NO OTHER CHOICE

SENTIMENTAL VALUE

 A production of "Hamlet" brings operatic, even immortal catharsis

Laughing at the night market, like a pressure relief valve has been turned. That head-turning reaction to "Mom"

A Bollywood-inspired wedding performance sends you out of the theater with joy.

 A noisy but depopulated factory. Park Chan Wook is a genius.

 The family home gets a sterilized makeover and the family makes peace... albeit on a film set

Finalists: Viet & Nam Shipping Container? Coal Mine? Abyss? A meditative and tragic finale; Fernando's memory (and lack thereof) in The Secret Agent adds perspective; Bugonia - where have all the flowers gone?

Semi Finalists: A rooftop dancing memory with Baby; The Twinless men make peace at a diner; In Sex, a Christian avante gard choir performs; And a final scan of adult Iris's room in Arco proves strangely moving.

Best Credit Sequence / Title Design

CAUGHT STEALING

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS

NO OTHER CHOICE

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE

TRON ARES

 
Subway tiles (opening) and animated cat w/ rumbling, flipping dividing scroll (closing)

Retro squares & drawings (end credits) to close out the retrofuturism

A final blow via "specialty paper"
(closing credits)

Jubilant dancing in forest (opening) and etchings (interstitials)

 "# ./start" Digital creation and iterations (opening credits)

Finalists: Ballad of a Small Player-so much energy and multicolor chaos (closing credits) in different directions; A juvenile delinquent marching band (opening credits) gives Babyan enticingly specific mood to kick off; Bugonia's gradual flat earth reveal (ha!) and Lanthimos trademark font throughout in (interstitials)

Semi Finalists: Honey Don't! dusty signs provide (opening credits) in a dustry New Mexico town; Pillion's oddly sized font (credits); and Sinners - presents etching for folklore (opening credits), and Mickey 17 the title flipping like a train station banner (end credits),

AVATAR FIRE & ASH

BLACK BAG

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS

FIXED

MATERIALISTS

Varang's Tent Interrogation

Dinner Party

A Damning Translation

Bad News (foreground) / Good News (background)

NO OTHER CHOICE

NO OTHER CHOICE

SENTIMENTAL VALUE

SIRAT

"Attack of the Hairy Leg"

"Blow It Up!"

Finalists: Kill the Jockey - Exit remo / enter delores; Hamnet - Twin birthing sequences, The Secret Agent - a toast to the refugees, Frankenstein - Victor in bed - the creature investigates; Roofman - naked / found out; Vie Privee - Hypnotist, Pillion - dinner party, A Nice Indian Boy "I want those same things", Phoenician Scheme - assassin in elevator,  Elio - sneaking into camp

Semi-Finalists: The Secret Agent - a toast to the refugees, Pillion - day off, Bugonia - nice dinner? Eternity - everyone gathered for her decision - group freakout Train Dreams - outline of home; Sentimental Value - visit to an old cinematographer, Fixed -"Play Date", Ugly Stepsister -Silkworms and Dress, Companion -reprogramming Patrick, Elio - sneaking into camp, Black Bag - lie detector, 28 Years Later -meeting Dr Kelson, Roofman - escape, Little Amelie - first words, Ballad of a Small Player- winning streak