The 2020 Sunset Circle Awards

BEST FILM
The Father
The King of Staten Island
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Minari
Nine Days
Nomadland
✪Promising Young Woman
Saint Maud
Sound of Metal

BEST DIRECTOR
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
David Fincher – Mank
✪ Darius Marder – Sound of Metal
Florian Zeller – The Father
Chloe Zhao – Nomadland

BEST ACTOR
Ben Affleck – The Way Back
✪ Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Winston Duke – Nine Days
Anthony Hopkins – The Father

BEST ACTRESS
Morfydd Clark – Saint Maud
Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
✪ Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bill Burr – The King of Staten Island
Bill Murray – On The Rocks
Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami
✪ Paul Raci – Sound of Metal
Stanley Tucci – Supernova

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams – Hillbilly Elegy
Zazie Beetz – Nine Days
Olivia Colman – The Father
Amanda Seyfried – Mank
✪ Youn Yuh-jung – Minari

BEST ENSEMBLE
Hillbilly Elegy
The King of Staten Island
✪ Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Minari
The Prom

BEST SCREENPLAY
✪ The Father – Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller
Minari – Lee Isaac Chung
Nine Days – Edson Oda
Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell
Sound of Metal – Derek Cianfrance & Darius Marder

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Gretel & Hansel – Galo Olivares
✪ Mank – Erik Messerschmidt
Nomadland – Joshua James Richards
Sound of Metal – Daniël Bouquet
Tenet – Hoyte Van Hoytema

BEST SCORE
First Cow – William Tyler
Gretel & Hansel – Robin Coudert
Minari – Emile Mosseri
Soul – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
✪ Tenet – Ludwig Göransson

BEST BREAKTHROUGH
Kiera Allen – Run
Nicole Beharie – Miss Juneteenth
Joe Kerry – Spree
✪ Orion Lee – First Cow
Jo Ellen Pellman – The Prom

SCENE STEALER
✪ Michael Keaton – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Gabourey Sidibe – Antebellum
Toby Wallace – Babyteeth
Wil Wheaton – Rent-A-Pal

DIRECTORS TO WATCH
Radha Blank – The 40-Year-Old Version
✪ Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Rose Glass – Saint Maud
Edson Oda – Nine Days
Jon Stevenson – Rent-A-Pal