Finalists: Sandy Powell for Living Mark Bridges for The Fabelmans

Semi Finalists: Ruth E Carter for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Linda Muir for The Northman, Bina Daigler for TÁR, Odile Dicks-Mireaux for The Wonder, and Ann Roth for White Noise

Finalists: Nadim Carlsen's expressive lensing of Holy Spider both frighteningly mundane and otherworldly moody, and Grieg Fraser's typically excellent work on The Batman diving even further into inky blackness and hallucinogenic shots of color, and Darius Khondji for the beautiful dreamlike lighting of Bardo

Semi Finalists: Janusz Kaminski for The Fabelmans, Jarin Blaschke for The Northman, Frank van dan Eeden for Close, and Arseni Khachaturan for Bones and All

 Glassy, contemplative Asian futurism. As hypnotic and mysterious as Yang's "techno-sapien" mind

The rock and roll icon's taste for maximalism meets its match in Las Vegas gaudy shiny artifice

Mid century middle class details and a family's journey through multiple states and homes. 

 From its fascist-era aesthetics to its hand-made detail. Behold an actual point of view!

The Haywood Ranch and Jupiter's Hollow are so well realized they're full cast members.

Finalists: Old Hollywood glamour and gritty makeshift realities from Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino on Babylon, the oceanic villages of Avatar the Way of Water via the trio of Dylan Cole, Vanessa Cole, and Ben Procter, and finally the vulgar display of wealth and titular glass in Glass Onion  designed by Rick Heinrichs

emi Finalists: The Northman, Decision to Leave, White Noise, and Bardo

Emotional permanence through ephemera. What a feat.

 Six leads seamlessly one equus asinus. Suggestive clever dialogue through cuts

 Most Editing can  sometimes equal Best Editing. Trippy multiversal montage.

Multiple key scenes play like odes to the power of film editing to manipulate, reveal, or underscore.

 Alternately lyrical and blaring. Each cut has sweeping intent.

Finalists: The kaleidoscope fun of Jonathan Redmond & Matt Villa's work on Elvis particularly within its thrilling concert sequences, the sequential mysteries and horror of Nope cut by Nicholas Monsour, and the mind-bending cuts and points of view embedded in the montage of Kim Sang-beom for Decision to Leave

emi Finalists: Corsage, All Quiet on the Western Front, Prey, and Avatar the Way of Water

 Damaged eyes, mud-masked shell shock, and battlefield gore among its haunting makeup-assisted images.

A fetish object for fans of movie prosthetics. Grow your own organs. Wear dozens of ears!

What's that on her head? A wig! Or, rather, wigs. They get quite an expressive workout herein. 

 Cartoonish carny villain aside, it's a feat of pop resurrection with loads of nostalgic looks

A convincing fat suit with no hindrance, beyond the purposeful bulk, for the emotional performance.

Finalists: a return trip to Afrofuturism via Black Panther Wakanda Forever though the finalist citation is for the new designs: Namor and his oceanic people, and Blonde's 50s and 60s style and Marilyn Monroe recreation 

emi Finalists: The Batman, Amsterdam, The Northman, The Cursed , and Bones and All

James Cameron pushes the envelope yet again. Stunning underwater work

 Comic chaos with clever surreal execution. Welcome to the (noncorporate) multiverse

 Nervy setpieces, simple yet stunning. But most of all the awe inspiring Jean Jacket

Old school practical grit but particularly its hallucinogenic fervor: Valkyries, Seers, Olga of the Birch Forest

Disciplined practical effects. They have a way of driing thrills that CG has yet to master.

Finalists:seamlesswar realness in All Quiet on the Western Front and enthusiastically broad spectacle in RRR

Semi Finalists: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, 3000 Years of Longing, Decision to Leave, Bardo, and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio