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RULES: Participants divvied up 100 points among ten "nominees" in each category, with a maximum of 30 points for any given selection and a minimum of 5 points. Results are expressed as points/votes.

Best Scene

Rank Movie Points/Votes
1 Trinity Oppenheimer 164 / 14
2 Train collapse Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One 155 / 13
3 Always with water Beau Is Afraid 145 / 11
4 Lucky Strike Presents Killers of the Flower Moon 138 / 13
5 Crash at Guidizzolo Ferrari 102 / 9
6 "Victory speech" at Los Alamos Oppenheimer 83 / 8
7 Sacre Cœur stair fight John Wick Chapter 4 75 / 6
8 Fiat accompli Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One 74 / 7
9 Recording of a fight Anatomy of a Fall 64 / 9
10 Five questions Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 62 / 6
11 Forest theatre Beau Is Afraid 62 / 4
12 First contact Asteroid City 56 / 6
13 Deleted scene runthrough Asteroid City 55 / 5
14 Dancing in Lisbon Poor Things 50 / 5
15 Town hall meeting R.M.N. 46 / 5
16 A vision of the future The Zone of Interest 35 / 3
17 Arc de Triomphe John Wick Chapter 4 31 / 3
18 Attack on Ginza G Minus One 30 / 3
  Naked beach smackdown No Hard Feelings 30 / 3
20 Give my back my letter About Dry Grasses 30 / 1
21 Dinner with the expert The Killer 28 / 3
  Opening credits The Killer 28 / 3
23 Florida home invasion The Killer 27 / 3
  Prologue Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 27 / 3
25 A fish's tail (shredder accident) Smoking Causes Coughing 26 / 3
  Austerlitz Napoleon 26 / 3
  Second thermal vision The Zone of Interest 26 / 3
28 How Soon Is Now? (First hit) The Killer 25 / 3
  "I'm Just Ken" Barbie 25 / 3
  Lizzy's opening Showing Up 25 / 3
31 “I don’t understand the play” Asteroid City 25 / 1
32 Motorcycle dive Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One 24 / 4
33 Resurrection in the Ely Cathedral Maestro 22 / 2
34 P.I.M.P. (Please Interview Me Perceptibly) Anatomy of a Fall 20 / 3
35 Blowing up the pipeline How to Blow Up a Pipeline 20 / 2
  Climactic assault G Minus One 20 / 2
  In the waves Pacifiction 20 / 2
  On the dance floor Pacifiction 20 / 2
  The Snoopy argument Maestro 20 / 2
  Trying on dresses May December 20 / 2
41 Black Friday massacre Thanksgiving 20 / 1
  "Dear Alien (Who Art in Heaven)" Asteroid City 20 / 1
43 Osaka Continental battle John Wick Chapter 4 19 / 2
44 "Maneater" No Hard Feelings 18 / 2
45 Indy and Marion reunite Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 17 / 2
  Up on the roof May December 17 / 2
47 Dragon's Breath John Wick Chapter 4 15 / 2
  Mirror makeup May December 15 / 2
  Penile surgery De humani corporis fabrica 15 / 2
  Samet's dinner at Nuray's house About Dry Grasses 15 / 2
51 A well-done steak Country Gold 15 / 1
  Dolly wants another one The Royal Hotel 15 / 1
  The Hawk stalks Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain 15 / 1
  The thinking helmet Smoking Causes Coughing 15 / 1
55 "Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Alerta Amazonas version)" Rotting in the Sun 12 / 1
56 Bella discovers Lisbon Poor Things 11 / 1
57 Ain't I a Woman? (final shot) Kokomo City 10 / 1
  Alexandria Poor Things 10 / 1
  "All Too Well" Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour 10 / 1
  Arriving on Earth-928 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 10 / 1
  Awards Review / "Listening to Black People" American Fiction 10 / 1
  Bear vs. ambulance Cocaine Bear 10 / 1
  "Blue Monday" De humani corporis fabrica 10 / 1
  Breaking into the workplace Tori and Lokita 10 / 1
  Bus dance Magic Mike's Last Dance 10 / 1
  “But it is my wish—for my grief for our son, for the years building this, you do not acknowledge the boy with the name Ferrari while I am alive.” Ferrari 10 / 1
  "Can you hear the music, Robert?" Oppenheimer 10 / 1
  Cherries jubilee The Holdovers 10 / 1
  Claire Simon's diagnosis Our Body 10 / 1
  Cooking the omelette The Taste of Things 10 / 1
  De Roller in soccer field Pacifiction 10 / 1
  Drone to porch The Plains 10 / 1
  Elizabeth reading Gracie’s letter May December 10 / 1
  Elizabeth visits the pet store May December 10 / 1
  Epilogue The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial 10 / 1
  Field trip M3GAN 10 / 1
  First broadcast The Passengers of the Night 10 / 1
  First encounter at sea G Minus One 10 / 1
  First pitch meeting Dream Scenario 10 / 1
  First venture into outside world Beau Is Afraid 10 / 1
  Football field brawl Bottoms 10 / 1
  Four gang fights in one ("No Diggity") Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 10 / 1
  Hallway screams De humani corporis fabrica 10 / 1
  "I believe we did" Oppenheimer 10 / 1
  Jeffrey Wright's speech Asteroid City 10 / 1
  Joan, Still (the big show) Theater Camp 10 / 1
  Joe asks Gracie to discuss their relationship May December 10 / 1
  Leonard meets Wen Knock at the Cabin 10 / 1
  Listening to Suicide The Plains 10 / 1
  Locker room Will-‘o-the-Wisp 10 / 1
  Lunch with the parents Passages 10 / 1
  M3GAN's hallway attack (and dance) M3GAN 10 / 1
  Mary breaks down at the holiday party The Holdovers 10 / 1
  Meet the new G, more mutated than the old G (encounter at sea) G Minus One 10 / 1
  Mollie asks Ernest about her poisoning Killers of the Flower Moon 10 / 1
  Multi-Spidey chase Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 10 / 1
  NHL Screwover ("I'm from Waterloo...") BlackBerry 10 / 1
  Opening credits Asteroid City 10 / 1
  Opening montage Killers of the Flower Moon 10 / 1
  "Our mother died three weeks ago?" Asteroid City 10 / 1
  Out Alpha the Alpha Dicks: The Musical 10 / 1
  Outdoor dinner story Afire 10 / 1
  PJ and Josie chat Brittany and Isabel up at the carnival Bottoms 10 / 1
  Plane crash Society of the Snow 10 / 1
  Public question time Cairo Conspiracy 10 / 1
  Re-enacting paintings Will-‘o-the-Wisp 10 / 1
  Sebastián falls Rotting in the Sun 10 / 1
  Sonny's speech to Michael Jordan Air 10 / 1
  Spying on Elisa Esperanza Trenque Lauquen 10 / 1
  The general's monologue Asteroid City 10 / 1
  The return of Eugénie The Taste of Things 10 / 1
  The salad Fallen Leaves 10 / 1
  The train Extraction 2 10 / 1
  Third wheel at the bar Past Lives 10 / 1
  Training montage Silent Night 10 / 1
  Truck campaigning Dry Ground Burning 10 / 1
  Uwe Johnson Afire 10 / 1
  Virtual reality Queens of the Qing Dynasty 10 / 1
  Yam loses his gun Limbo 10 / 1
120 Pub confrontation The Beasts 9 / 1
121 Abduction awry Silent Night 8 / 1
  Gwen Stacy vs. Vulture (museum) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 8 / 1
123 A night at the opera Ferrari 7 / 1
  Beau has sex with Elaine Beau Is Afraid 7 / 1
  Magic Mike's last sexy dance Magic Mike's Last Dance 7 / 1
  Second goodbye Past Lives 7 / 1
127 Accordion, dancing and wrestling Godland 6 / 1
  Lonely walk home Past Lives 6 / 1
129 A lap dance for Max Magic Mike's Last Dance 5 / 1
  A rock at the door Enys Men 5 / 1
  Bismallah beats The Sweet East 5 / 1
  Carmen takes flight El Conde 5 / 1
  Dolly dares Hanna to throw him out The Royal Hotel 5 / 1
  "Feeling Good" Perfect Days 5 / 1
  Fever dream fires Killers of the Flower Moon 5 / 1
  Intimate encounter Falcon Lake 5 / 1
  "It's not that kind of a snake." (final scene) May December 5 / 1
  Lost in the prostate De humani corporis fabrica 5 / 1
  Opening title scene Evil Dead Rise 5 / 1
  Rewriting the ending American Fiction 5 / 1
  Rocket Gets His Name Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 5 / 1
  Setting the bomb / fractured leg How to Blow Up a Pipeline 5 / 1
  The Death of M.O.D.O.K., newest Avenger Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 5 / 1
  The woods The Beasts 5 / 1
  Translated confession Rotting in the Sun 5 / 1
  Vera meets with Asia Argento Vera 5 / 1