Winners of the 2020 Sunset Circle Awards

The recently-formed Sunset Film Critics Circle has announced the winners of their inaugural Sunset Circle Awards, with Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman taking home the top prize for Best Film. Elsewhere, Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal scooped up three awards including Best Actor for Riz Ahmed. Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Film

Promising Young Woman

(runner-up: Mank)

Best Director

Darius Marder – Sound of Metal

(runner-up: Chloé Zhao – Nomadland)

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal

(runner-up: Anthony Hopkins – The Father)

Best Actress

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

(runner-up: Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy)

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

(runner-up: Bill Burr – King of Staten Island)

Best Supporting Actress

Youn Yuh-jung – Minari

(runner-up: Amy Adams – Hillbilly Elegy)

Best Ensemble

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

(runner-up: Hillbilly Elegy)

Best Screenplay

Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller – The Father

(runner-up: Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman)

Best Cinematography

Erik Messerschmidt – Mank

(runner-up: Joshua James Richards – Nomadland)

Best Score

Ludwig Göransson – Tenet

(runner-up: Emile Mosseri – Minari)

Director to Watch

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman

(runner-up: Rose Glass – Saint Maud)

Scene-Stealer

Michael Keaton – The Trial of the Chicago 7

(runner-up: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II – The Trial of the Chicago 7)

Best Breakthrough

Orion Lee – First Cow

(runner-up: Kiera Allen – Run)


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.