The Best of the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival

Well folks, the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival is now in the books! The past two years, Tribeca was a very different fest than normal, though last year and this year it was a hybrid type of situation, mixing in person and virtual events. While some colleagues have had issues with the organization of it all this and last year (myself included), I do think that the hybrid model continues to be a good template for festivals to come, at least while we still live in a COVID-ridden world. Like I said last year, there’s something great about having both options. Providing a venue to attend movie screenings at is great, but opening things up virtually to more people is only a net positive. In any event, with Tribeca in the rearview mirror now, I wanted to share my highlights of the festival, which you can see below…

My awards for last year can be found here, but this year, one film in particular dominated, and that was Cooper Raiff‘s Cha Cha Real Smooth. I loved it at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, but it remains an absolute gem. In terms of Tribeca debuts, Hannah Marks‘ Don’t Make Me Go and Ray Romano‘s Somewhere in Queens stood out from the crowd. Now, sit back and see how I rank the movies of Tribeca 2022. Here we go:

2022 Tribeca Film Festival Awards…

Best Picture

Winner – Cha Cha Real Smooth

Runner Ups- Don’t Make Me Go and Somewhere in Queens

Best Director

Winner – Hannah Marks for Don’t Make Me Go

Runner Up – Cooper Raiff for Cha Cha Real Smooth and Ray Romano for Somewhere in Queens

Best Actor

Winner – Cooper Raiff for Cha Cha Real Smooth

Runner Up – John Cho for Don’t Make Me Go and Ray Romano for Somewhere in Queens

Best Actress

Winner – Dakota Johnson for Cha Cha Real Smooth

Runner Up – Mia Isaac for Don’t Make Me Go and Emma Thompson for Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Best Supporting Actor

Winner – Thomas Sadoski for 88

Runner Up – Brad Garrett for Cha Cha Real Smooth and Tony Lo Bianco for Somewhere in Queens

Best Supporting Actress

Winner – Vanessa Burghardt for Cha Cha Real Smooth

Runner Up – Sidney Flanagan for Rounding and Laurie Metcalf for Somewhere in Queens

Best Screenplay

Winner – Cooper Raiff for Cha Cha Real Smooth

Runner Up – Vera Herbert for Don’t Make Me Go and Ray Romano and Mark Stegemann for Somewhere in Queens

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This is how I would rank everything I saw at the Tribeca Film Festival this year:

15. Babysitter

14. 88

13. A Love Song

12. Wes Schlagenhauf Is Dying

11. Rounding

10. Jerry and Marge Go Large

9. Unfinished Business

8. Space Oddity

7. Official Competition

6. Halftime

5. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

4. Body Parts

3. Somewhere in Queens

2. Don’t Make Me Go

1. Cha Cha Real Smooth

That’s a wrap on Tribeca for 2022!