This happened like 36 hours ago and I'm only now summoning up the energy to post it, purely to satisfy my perfectionist compulsion to alert you measly few to every meaningless critics award you've already read about elsewhere. Remind yourself of the Sunset Film Critics Circle's inaugural award nominees right here.
Best Film
Promising Young Woman
Runner-up: Mank
Best Director
Darius Marder (Sound of Metal)
Runner-up: Chloe 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 (The 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 and 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 Goransson (Tenet)
Runner-up: Emile Mosseri (Minari)
Director to Watch Award
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Runner-up: Rose Glass (Saint Maud)
Scene-Stealer Award
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)