The T-Dub Awards 2022
TYLER WILSON/Coeur Voice Contributor | Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 3 years, 3 months AGO
Forget the Oscars, ignore the Golden Globes and thumb your nose at the National Board of Review. The only important movie awards come courtesy of the Coeur d’Alene Press. That’s right – the annual T-Dub Awards celebrate the year in cinema with a prize for (almost) every notable movie of 2022.
The T-Dub Awards has also gone eco-friendly this year. Instead of statues, we’re giving out worthless NFTs! Congratulations to all the winners!
Scene of the year: The final sequence at the airport in “Aftersun”
Just give him the Oscar already: Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inishirin,” “After Yang”
Just give her the Oscar already: Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
The ‘She can do anything great” award: Viola Davis, “The Woman King”
Best Duo: Tang Wei and Park Haei-il in “Decision to Leave”
The “Just stop it already” award: Clerks III”
Best cameo: Val Kilmer, “Top Gun: Maverick”
Good movie, terrible title: “Cha Cha Real Smooth”
Best post credits moment: “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Best romance: “Fire Island”
Best villain: Colin Farrell as The Penguin in “The Batman.” Farrell had an amazing year, by the way.
Least threatening villain: Tom Hanks in “Elvis”
The ”Be careful who you’re dating on the Internet” award: “I Love My Dad”
Good movie thrown into a pointless political debate: “Turning Red”
The “Great start, lousy finish” award: “Crimes of the Future”
Please don’t smell what The Rock is cooking: “Black Adam”
The “bad green screen will ruin your movie” award: “Death on the Nile”
Best movie you haven’t heard of: “Emergency”
Best fight: The climax of “Prey”
Best Kiss: Nicolas Cage and Nicolas Cage, “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”
Best hero moment: Daniel Kaluuya faces the threat, “Nope”
Best inversion of expectations: “The Stranger”
Best performance in a bad movie: Ana De Armas, “Blonde”
Best performance in a mediocre movie: Adam Sandler in “Hustle”
Underrated performance: Daniel Radcliffe, “Weird: The Al Yankovich Story”
The ”Wait, this is supposed to be a musical, right?” award: “Elvis”
Go ahead and keep making one every couple years: A new “Knives Out”/Benoit Blanc mystery
Best ensemble cast: “The Batman”
Best breakout performance: Gabriel LaBelle and Chloe East, “The Fabelmans”
The cast makes the movie: “She Said”
The “Makes it look easy” award: Cate Blanchett, “Tar”
Scene-stealer: Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Best scenery chewing: Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
The “She deserves to be a bigger star” award: Aubrey Plaza, “Emily the Criminal”
The “Makes everything better” award: Florence Pugh, “The Wonder,” “Don’t Worry Darling”
Best chemistry: Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal, “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”
Good luck finding these pretty good movies: tie: “To Leslie” and “It Is In Us All”
Best looking movie: “The Northman”
Most disturbing image: The “impossible” shoe, “Nope”
Best shot: The final shot of “The Fabelmans”
Best production/set design: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
Best first impression: Charlotte Wells, writer/director of “Aftersun”
Best comfort food: “The Bob’s Burgers Movie”
Funniest Movie: “Bros”
Best blockbuster: “RRR”
Worst blockbuster: “Uncharted”
The “Better performance than her recent Oscar-winning performance” award: Jessica Chastain in “The Good Nurse”
Movie I wish I would’ve seen in a theater rather than at home: “Everything, Everywhere All At Once”
Movie people get mad at me for recommending: “On the Count of Three”
Worst movie: Judd Apatow’s “The Bubble”
Best return to form: Judd Apatow with the documentary “George Carlin’s American Dream,” after tanking with “The Bubble”
Best “TV” movie: Steven Soderbergh’s latest HBO gem, “Kimi”
Most shocking scene: It shouldn’t be shocking at the is point, but pick one of several from “Jackass Forever”
Most baffling decision: Making (spoiler) the killer in “Halloween Ends”
The “It really goes there” award: All of “RRR”
Best use of home movies: “Sr.”
Best nostalgia trip: “Apollo 10 1/2: A Spaceage Childhood”
All the tears: “Aftersun”
Best location for a fight: On the water, underwater, anything near water in “Avatar: The Way of Water”
Favorite movie other people think is just fine: “After Yang”
The “It’s fine, I guess” award: “Triangle of Sadness”
The “Stop telling me it’s good” award: “Ambulance”
The “What were they thinking?” award: “They/Them”
The “High tension” award: “Prey”
Movie most likely to cause a panic attack: “Barbarian”
Most enjoyable relic from the 90s: “All the Old Knives”
Best needle drop: Michael Giacchino’s propulsive score in “The Batman”
Best recreation of 2000s-era pop music: “Turning Red”
Most traditionally powerful climax: “RRR”
Most surprisingly powerful climax: “Aftersun”
Too much climax: “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness”
Better than it had any right to be: “Chip n’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers”
Breakout character in need of a spin-off: Sox in “Lightyear”
Best “slow burn”: “After Yang”
Best animated film: “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”
I can’t believe I actually watched: The “Firestarter” remake
Best vocal performance in an animated film: David Bradley, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
The “I played solitaire on my phone for the entire run time” award: “Sonic the Hedgehog 2”
Best Hitchcockian riff: “Decision to Leave”
Best use of a big budget: “Avatar: The Way of Water”
Movie your dad will like: “Top Gun: Maverick”
Best horror movie that’s not a horror movie: “Tar”
Best movie I’ll never want to watch again: “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Best musical moment: “Naacho Naacho,” in “RRR”
The “It’s totally fine!” award: “Top Gun: Maverick”
The “It’s not as bad as you think” award: “Jurassic World: Dominion”
The “Big swing and miss” award: “Disenchanted”
Wasted cast: “Amsterdam”
The “I can’t believe I still haven’t seen” award: “Bullet Train”
Underrated: “Armageddon Time”
Messy but points for trying: “Wendell & Wild”
Most overstuffed: “Thor: Love & Thunder”
Yep, that actually came out in 2022: “Hotel Transylvania: Transformania”
Confusing title: “Spiderhead”
The “Wish I could see it before I make a ‘Best of’ list” award: “Women Talking”
Best animal performance: Raccacoonie, “Everything, Everywhere All At Once”
Most unnecessary sequel: “A Christmas Story Christmas”
Most unnecessary prequel: “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore”
The “At least it was only 90 minutes” award: “Minions: The Rise of Gru”
Not as good as a “Princess Switch” movie: Lindsay Lohan’s “Falling for Christmas”
The “I forgot about it five minutes after seeing it” award: “The Gray Man”
Most pleasant surprise: “Vengeance”
Strangest Relic of 2022: Disney’s live-action “Pinocchio”
Biggest hype for a forgettable movie: “Hocus Pocus 2”
Biggest guilty pleasure: “Day Shift”
And… my kids’ favorite movie of 2022: “Turning Red”
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Tyler Wilson is a member of the International Press Academy and has been writing about movies for Inland Northwest publications since 2000, including a regular column in The Press since 2006. He can be reached at [email protected].