Elvis the Pelvis emerges, a superstar is born

 Elvis promised to behave but causes a riot instead.

Finalists: Any Bowie archival conjuring from Moonage Daydream really, Inu-oh tries to outdo the concert for the people with a special ultra-beautiful show for royals

Semi Finalists: "When I Grow Up" is a highlight in Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical, "Hound Dog" and "Tutti Frutti" Elvis watches other icons perform in these two scenes, TAR puts up her "Room for Sale" "Ciao Papa" in Pinocchio, and School Song" from Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical

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

 The Ear Man "Don't tell him I said this but he's better with the dancing than the conceptual art"

 Howie, Luke and Keegan trio it up to this classic. "It's tradition!"

Finalists: Wil's dance-off contest in Fire Island, Sad karaoke betrayal with "Losing My Religion" in Aftersun, Beer Pong / "Jump Around" in Ticket to Paradise , In Return to Seoul Frédérique dances by herself - another reinvention is coming,

Semi Finalists: In Benediction Ivor Novello performs "And Her Mother Came, Too" to the giggling social gathering, Billy performs "Love is Not Love" in Bros with ultra-specific lyrics, It is a grand piano or a typewriter in The Fabelmans?

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

 Sam Raimi lets his freak flag fly with one of the most arrresting action images in the MCU

 A two part sequence in which the action first lifts off and the torch passes (from Waymond to Evelyn) in terms of who the action hero is

Finalists: RRR it's Raju, one government man, versus the rebels setting the tone for the heightened cartoon action to come. Such fun!, Prey's final battle is quite an exciting one-on-one showdown, The final mission in Top Gun Maverick

Semi Finalists: The final chaotic showdown of Everything Everywhere All At Once, Attack on Kamar Taj in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Escaping the tiger in RRR, Lady Bug vs. The Hornet in Bullet Train (but many of the short "vs" scenes would do here)

CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH
Dakota Johnson & Cooper Raiff

THE FABELMANS
Gabrielle Labelle & Chloe East

 A beautifully foolish almost tryst. The stars really sell it.

 Finally letting their guards down to let this new romance in

Finalists: Austin Butler makes out with several fans in front of Priscilla in Vegas in Elvis (but since we already honored that setpiece in Best Musical Moment), Olivia Colman's impulsive peck with Micheal in Empire of Light neither of them having any idea where it might lead them, Aamu Milonoff & Linnea Lineo get caught up while dancing in Girl Picture 

Semi Finalists: Timothee Chalamet & Taylor Russell are kindred souls colliding in Bones and All, Antonio Saboia and Pedro Fasanara's give in to clandestine passion in Private Desert, Hollywood beauties Jennifer Connelly & Tom Cruise share a glossy kiss in Top Gun Maverick, Cate Blanchett & Nina Hoss believable as a long-time complicit couple in TAR

 Experimentation and comedy... and feet

Finalists: A tragiwhimsical infant interruption for Bardo's playful old marrieds, Has Bella found Pleasure ...or at least her porn niche in S&M?, Blonde's blurry shifty threesome with Ana de Armas, Evan Williams, Xavier Samuel

Semi Finalists: Firebird's forbidden romance, Corsage's indifferent odd marital banging, Deep Water's lusty open marriage, and Dog's thwarted threesome

 Trip to the movies

 'Our story'

Finalists: Nope plane debris? Great Freedom's criminal behavior

Semi Finalists: Top Gun Maverick's "Darkstar" shutdown, A wedding in Downton Abbey A New Era, the circus of EO, car crashes as American optimism lecture in White Noise, and a nightswim in Firebird

 Hallway

 Valhalla

Finalists: Girl Picture -happy trio at the party, Decision to Leave - beach search, Corsage -a suicide?

Semi Finalists Banshees of Inisherin - the beach, Crimes of the Future - the body is ready, Fire Island - at the dock, Triangle of Sadness - the rock

Best Credit Sequence / Title Design

 (opening credits)

Family dance battles

(end credits)

In the trees

(credits)

Rhinestone explosions

(opening credits)

Dick kaiju

 (end credits)

Supermarket Dance

Finalists: Corsage (end credit empress dance), The Menu (interstitials), and Nope (dark corridor opening)

Semi Finalists: Moonage Daydream (interstitials),Doctor Strange (end credits) inkblot mirrors, and those highlighted accents and letters in the stylish Bardo

AFTER YANG

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

BABYLON

DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA

 Injured 'donkey'

 Editing discovery 

Finalists: Babylon "Hello College" a shoot gone awry, Triangle of Sadness - Toilet Manager / Captain,  Pleasure - phone call to mom

Semi-Finalists: The Fabelmans - Meeting John Ford, Till - Courtroom stand, Decision to Leave - reenactment reveal, Fire Island - Sunset countdown, Blonde - "my Magda" Miller is stunned, The Northman -Visiting the seer, Turning Red - 4Town Shakedown, Nope - Aliens in the barn, The Batman - contacts, Glass Onion -Benoit ruins the game early, The Northman - Queen Gudrun's confession, Black Panther Wakanda Forever - Ramonda meets Namor,  Babylon -'Your time is up', The Cursed -children discover the teeth, The Inspection - mom's visit