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   <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May&nbsp;6, 2025 </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right"><B>Registration <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">No.&nbsp;333-&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;</FONT> </B></P>
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  </DIV><DIV STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV> <P STYLE="margin-top:4pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>UNITED STATES </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 </B></P>
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  <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>FORM <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-8</FONT> </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B><I>UNDER </I></B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B><I>THE
  SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 </I></B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center><DIV STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</DIV></center>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:24pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SUNSTONE HOTEL INVESTORS, INC. </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter) </B></P>
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  <TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B>Maryland</B></TD>
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  <TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">20-1296886</FONT></B></TD></TR>
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  <TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(State or Other Jurisdiction of</B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Incorporation or Organization)</B></P></TD>
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  <TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(IRS Employer</B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Identification No.)</B></P></TD></TR>
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  <TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>15 Enterprise, Suite 200</B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Aliso Viejo, California</B></P></TD>
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  <TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><B>92656</B></TD></TR>
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  <TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B>(Address of Principal Executive Offices)</B></TD>
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  </TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. and Sunstone Hotel Partnership, LLC 2022 Incentive Award Plan </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Full Title of the Plan) </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Aaron R. Reyes </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Executive Vice President&nbsp;&amp; Chief Financial Officer </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>15 Enterprise, Suite 200 </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Aliso Viejo, California 92656 </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Name and address of agent for service) </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(949) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">330-4000</FONT> </B></P>
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  <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B><I>Copies to: </I></B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Steven B. Stokdyk, Esq. </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Brent T. Epstein, Esq. </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Latham&nbsp;&amp; Watkins LLP </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>10250 Constellation Blvd., Suite 1100 </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Los Angeles, CA 90067 </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(424) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">653-5500</FONT> </B></P>
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  <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-accelerated</FONT>
  filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of &#147;large accelerated filer,&#148; &#147;accelerated filer,&#148; &#147;smaller reporting company&#148; and &#147;emerging growth company&#148; in Rule <FONT
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  </TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period
  for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section&nbsp;7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. </P>
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  <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Registration Statement on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-8</FONT> is being filed for the purpose of registering an additional 5,500,000 shares
  of common stock, $0.01 par value per share (&#147;Common Stock&#148;) of Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. (the &#147;Company&#148;) to be issued under the First Amendment to the Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. and Sunstone Hotel Partnership, LLC 2022
  Incentive Award Plan, which was adopted by the Company&#146;s Board of Directors on March&nbsp;12, 2025 and approved by the Company&#146;s stockholders on May&nbsp;1, 2025. In accordance with Instruction E to Form
  <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-8,</FONT> the contents of the previous Registration Statement on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-8</FONT> (File <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">No.&nbsp;333-264552)</FONT> are hereby incorporated by
  reference. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>PART II </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Item&#8201;3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference. </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The following documents, which have been filed by Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. (the &#147;Company&#148;) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
  &#147;SEC&#148;) pursuant to the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;), are incorporated by reference in, and shall be deemed to be a part of, this Registration Statement: </P>
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  <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Annual Report on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/../../../ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1295810/000155837022001708/sho-20211231x10k.htm">Form
   <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-K</FONT></A> for the fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31, 2024, filed with the SEC on February&nbsp;21, 2025. </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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  <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Quarterly Report on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/../../../ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1295810/000155837025006454/sho-20250331x10q.htm">Form
   <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-Q</FONT></A> for the quarter ended March&nbsp;31, 2025, filed with the SEC on May&nbsp;6, 2025. </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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  <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Current Reports on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K,</FONT> filed with the SEC on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/../../../ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001295810/000155837025000301/sho-20250121x8k.htm">January&nbsp;22,
   2025</A> and <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/../../../ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001295810/000155837025001262/sho-20250218x8k.htm">February&nbsp;21, 2025</A> (other than information furnished rather than filed therein).
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  <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Proxy Statement for the Company&#146;s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1295810/000155837022003859/tmb-20220428xdef14a.htm">Schedule
   14A</A> filed with the SEC on March&nbsp;19, 2025, as supplemented by Schedule 14A filed on March&nbsp;24, 2025. </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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  <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Description of the Company&#146;s Common Stock included in <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1295810/000155837024001615/sho-20231231xex4d5.htm">Exhibit
   4.5</A> to the Company&#146;s Annual Report on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/../../../ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001295810/000155837025001297/sho-20241231x10k.htm">Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-K</FONT></A> for the
  fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31, 2024, filed with the SEC on February&nbsp;21, 2025, together with any amendment or report filed with the SEC for the purpose of updating such description. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All reports and other documents filed by the Company with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date hereof and
  prior to the filing of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">post-effective</FONT> amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold
  shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents or reports. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any information that
  the Company later files with the SEC will automatically update and supersede the information and statements contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein. Any such information or statement so modified or
  superseded will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute part of this Registration Statement. Under no circumstances will any information &#147;furnished&#148; to the SEC pursuant to applicable rules and regulations be
  deemed incorporated herein by reference unless such information expressly provides to the contrary. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Item&#8201;8. Exhibits. </B></P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The following documents are filed as exhibits to this Registration Statement: </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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  <TD VALIGN="top"><A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1295810/000119312504174059/dex31.htm">Articles of Amendment and Restatement of Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the registration statement on Form
  <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-11</FONT> (File No.<U></U><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">&nbsp;333-117141)</FONT> filed by the Company). </A></TD></TR>
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  9, 2023 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K,</FONT> filed by the Company on February&nbsp;10, 2023). </A></TD></TR>
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  <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
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  (or the most recent <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">post-effective</FONT> amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the
  foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may
  be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the &#147;Calculation of
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  registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement; </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><I>provided, however</I>, that
  paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section do not apply if the registration statement is on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-8,</FONT> and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is
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  Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
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  <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
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  <TD VALIGN="bottom" COLSPAN="3"><B>SUNSTONE HOTEL INVESTORS, INC.</B></TD></TR>
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  <TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s / Bryan A. Giglia</P></TD></TR>
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  <TD VALIGN="bottom">Bryan A. Giglia</TD></TR>
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  <TD VALIGN="bottom">Chief Executive Officer</TD></TR>
  </TABLE></DIV> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Bryan A.
  Giglia and Aaron R. Reyes, and each of them, with full power to act without the other, such person&#146;s true and lawful <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">attorneys-in-fact</FONT></FONT> and agents, with full power
  of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign this registration statement and any and all amendments thereto, and to file the same, with exhibits and schedules thereto,
  and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">attorneys-in-fact</FONT></FONT> and agents, and each of them, full power
  and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said <FONT
  STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">attorneys-in-fact</FONT></FONT> and agents, or any of them, or their or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. </P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates
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  <TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ Douglas M. Pasquale</P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Douglas M. Pasquale</P></TD>
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  <TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ Bryan A. Giglia</P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Bryan A. Giglia</P></TD>
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  <TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Chief Executive Officer</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(Principal Executive
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  <TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ Aaron R. Reyes</P>
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  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(Principal Financial Officer)</P></TD>
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  <TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ W. Blake Baird</P>
  <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">W. Blake Baird</P></TD>
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text: S-8
  As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 6, 2025
  Registration
  No. 333-
  UNITED STATES
  SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
  WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
  FORM
  S-8
  REGISTRATION STATEMENT
  UNDER
  THE
  SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
  SUNSTONE HOTEL INVESTORS, INC.
  (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
  Maryland
  20-1296886
  (State or Other Jurisdiction of
  Incorporation or Organization)
  (IRS Employer
  Identification No.)
  15 Enterprise, Suite 200
  Aliso Viejo, California
  92656
  (Address of Principal Executive Offices)
  (Zip Code)
  Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. and Sunstone Hotel Partnership, LLC 2022 Incentive Award Plan
  (Full Title of the Plan)
  Aaron R. Reyes
  Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
  Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc.
  15 Enterprise, Suite 200
  Aliso Viejo, California 92656
  (Name and address of agent for service)
  (949)
  330-4000
  (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
  Copies to:
  Steven B. Stokdyk, Esq.
  Brent T. Epstein, Esq.
  Latham & Watkins LLP
  10250 Constellation Blvd., Suite 1100
  Los Angeles, CA 90067
  (424)
  653-5500
  Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a
  non-accelerated
  filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company" and "emerging growth company" in Rule
  12b-2
  of the Exchange Act.
  Large accelerated filer
  ☒
  Accelerated filer
  ☐
  Non-accelerated
  filer
  ☐
  Smaller reporting company
  ☐
  Emerging growth company
  ☐
  If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period
  for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.
  EXPLANATORY NOTE
  This Registration Statement on Form
  S-8
  is being filed for the purpose of registering an additional 5,500,000 shares
  of common stock, $0.01 par value per share ("Common Stock") of Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. (the "Company") to be issued under the First Amendment to the Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. and Sunstone Hotel Partnership, LLC 2022
  Incentive Award Plan, which was adopted by the Company's Board of Directors on March 12, 2025 and approved by the Company's stockholders on May 1, 2025. In accordance with Instruction E to Form
  S-8,
  the contents of the previous Registration Statement on Form
  S-8
  (File
  No. 333-264552)
  are hereby incorporated by
  reference.
  PART II
  INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
  Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
  The following documents, which have been filed by Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. (the "Company") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
  "SEC") pursuant to the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"), are incorporated by reference in, and shall be deemed to be a part of, this Registration Statement:
  •
  Annual Report on
  Form
  10-K
  for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC on February 21, 2025.
  •
  Quarterly Report on
  Form
  10-Q
  for the quarter ended March 31, 2025, filed with the SEC on May 6, 2025.
  •
  Current Reports on Form
  8-K,
  filed with the SEC on
  January 22,
   2025
  and
  February 21, 2025
  (other than information furnished rather than filed therein).
  •
  Proxy Statement for the Company's 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, on
  Schedule
   14A
  filed with the SEC on March 19, 2025, as supplemented by Schedule 14A filed on March 24, 2025.
  •
  Description of the Company's Common Stock included in
  Exhibit
   4.5
  to the Company's Annual Report on
  Form
  10-K
  for the
  fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC on February 21, 2025, together with any amendment or report filed with the SEC for the purpose of updating such description.
  All reports and other documents filed by the Company with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date hereof and
  prior to the filing of a
  post-effective
  amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold
  shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents or reports.
  Any information that
  the Company later files with the SEC will automatically update and supersede the information and statements contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein. Any such information or statement so modified or
  superseded will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute part of this Registration Statement. Under no circumstances will any information "furnished" to the SEC pursuant to applicable rules and regulations be
  deemed incorporated herein by reference unless such information expressly provides to the contrary.
  Item 8. Exhibits.
  The following documents are filed as exhibits to this Registration Statement:
  Exhibit
  Number
  Description
  4.1
  Articles of Amendment and Restatement of Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the registration statement on Form
  S-11
  (File No.
  333-117141)
  filed by the Company).
  4.2
  Third Amended and Restated Bylaws of Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc., effective as of February 
  9, 2023 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Form
  8-K,
  filed by the Company on February 10, 2023).
  5.1*
  Opinion of Venable LLP.
  23.1*
  Consent of Venable LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
  23.2*
  Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.
  24.1*
  Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to this Registration Statement).
  99.1
  Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. and Sunstone Hotel Partnership, LLC 2022 Incentive Award Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1
   to Form
  8-K,
  filed by the Company on April 28, 2022).
  99.2
  First Amendment to Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. and Sunstone Hotel Partnership, LLC 2022 Incentive Award Plan (incorporated by reference
   to Exhibit 10.1 to Form
  8-K,
  filed by the Company on May 6, 2025).
  107*
  Filing Fee Table.
  *
  Filed herewith.
  Item 9. Undertakings.
  (a)
  The undersigned Company hereby undertakes:
  (1)
  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
  post-effective
  amendment to this registration statement:
  (i)
  To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
  (ii)
  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement
  (or the most recent
  post-effective
  amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the
  foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may
  be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of
  Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement.
  (iii)
  To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the
  registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;
  provided, however
  , that
  paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section do not apply if the registration statement is on Form
  S-8,
  and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is
  contained in periodic reports filed by or furnished to the SEC by the Company pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.
  (2)
  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such
  post-effective
  amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
  bona
  fide
  offering thereof.
  (3)
  To remove from registration by means of a
  post-effective
  amendment any
  of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
  (b)
  The undersigned Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities
  Act, each filing of the Company's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
  Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
  initial
  bona fide
  offering thereof.
  (h)
  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors,
  officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Company has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
  is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the
  successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled
  by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
  SIGNATURES
  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
  for filing on Form
  S-8
  and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Aliso Viejo, State of California, on May 6,
  2025.
  SUNSTONE HOTEL INVESTORS, INC.
  By:
  /s / Bryan A. Giglia
  Bryan A. Giglia
  Chief Executive Officer
  KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Bryan A.
  Giglia and Aaron R. Reyes, and each of them, with full power to act without the other, such person's true and lawful
  attorneys-in-fact
  and agents, with full power
  of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign this registration statement and any and all amendments thereto, and to file the same, with exhibits and schedules thereto,
  and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
  attorneys-in-fact
  and agents, and each of them, full power
  and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing necessary or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
  attorneys-in-fact
  and agents, or any of them, or their or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates
  indicated.
  Signature
  Title
  Date
  /s/ Douglas M. Pasquale
  Douglas M. Pasquale
  Chairman of the Board
  May 6, 2025
  /s/ Bryan A. Giglia
  Bryan A. Giglia
  Chief Executive Officer
  (Principal Executive
  Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
  May 6, 2025
  /s/ Aaron R. Reyes
  Aaron R. Reyes
  Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
  (Principal Financial Officer)
  May 6, 2025
  /s/ W. Blake Baird
  W. Blake Baird
  Director
  May 6, 2025
  /s/ Andrew Batinovich
  Andrew Batinovich
  Director
  May 6, 2025
  /s/ Monica S. Digilio
  Monica S. Digilio
  Director
  May 6, 2025
  /s/ Kristina M. Leslie
  Kristina M. Leslie
  Director
  May 6, 2025
  /s/ Murray J. McCabe
  Murray J. McCabe
  Director
  May 6, 2025
  /s/ Verett Mims
  Verett Mims
  Director
  May 6, 2025