Oscars 2025 red carpet: Ariana Grande and Demi Moore among best-dressed stars

The Guardian

03-03-2025

Colman Domingo wearing a double-breasted jacket in red shantung silk over a matching shirt with a guru collar custom-made by Valentino Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
Halle Berry, one of many actors who got the silver statuette memo, wearing Christian Siriano Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
For an actor not afraid to challenge established norms of dress, this is a relatively sober taupe look from Jeremy Strong. It is by Loro Piana, though, his favourite brand – and Kendall Roy's. Photograph: Gregg DeGuire/Emma Stone wearing custom Louis Vuitton, a year after zip-gate, in one of the many silver chainmail dressed coursing through tonight's red carpet Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
Mikey Madison wearing a two-parter dress by Dior. More updos, more bows at the waist, more golden age of Hollywood-meets-boudoir-meets-bombshell, and finally a bit of colour – Peppa pink! Photograph:Lily-Rose Depp wearing a sheer black gown by Chanel Photograph:Andrew Garfield wearing a head-to-toe espresso coloured look by Gucci Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
Michelle Yeoh wearing a cobalt blue strapless Balenciaga gown – and a backlace Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
Edward Norton wearing a trad tux by Kim Jones for Dior Men Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
Doja Cat wearing custom Balmain, a dress inspired by an original Pierre Balmain dress from 1953 Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
Jazz Charton and Kieran Culkin. The Oscar-winning actor is wearing a suit by Zegna Photograph:Lupita Nyong'o wearing a Grecian-style Chanel gown Photograph: John Shearer/97th Oscars/Margaret Qualley facing forward in a backless Chanel gown paired with a backwards diamond necklace Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
Raye wearing a custom – and classic – Vivienne Westwood corseted gown in red silk satin chiffon Photograph:Adrien Brody in an Armani tuxedo and yet another colossal brooch – with Georgina Chapman wearing a diaphanous broom-shaped gown by Marchesa, the label she started Photograph:Timothée Chalamet brightening up the carpet in a buttery yellow three-piece look by Givenchy Photograph:Selena Gomez leans into old-school glamour with a custom gown from Ralph Lauren Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
Zoe Saldaña is wearing a triple-layered claret 'bubble' dress with a beaded bodice and long sheer gloves by Saint Laurent Photograph:Demi Moore goes for silver – a modern Venus de Milo in Giorgio Armani Privé Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
Whoopi Goldberg wearing a molten effect gown by Christian Siriano Photograph:Ariana Grande arrives in full Glinda mode wearing a bustier dress in butter satin with a wide tulle skirt by Schiaparelli couture Photograph: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
Diane Warren, who is up for her 16th Oscar nomination this year, sending a rather veiled message with the popped collar of her jacket Photograph: Stephen Lovekin/BEI/REX/Shutterstock
Joe Alwyn of The Brutalist fame (and absolutely not of Taylor Swift ex fame whatsoever) wearing JW Anderson Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
Alba Rohrwacher, the Italian actor and director of La Chimera wearing a gown with more layers than a Marie Antoinette frilly cake by Valentino Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
US tennis player Coco Gauff wearing a lemon yellow dress by Miu Miu Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
Costume designer Arianne Phillips, one of many on the red carpet stars to wear short laced gloves Photograph:Elle Fanning doing her best Audrey Hepburn impression in an off-white, full-skirted Givenchy dress with a black velvet bow and, like a lot of the stars tonight, a nostalgic updo Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters
The Wicked star Jeff Goldblum, wearing Prada, is known for his love of a quirky red carpet look Photograph: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
Director of the Brutalist Brady Corbet, in blavy shirt, suit and a brooch inspired by Brutalist architecture, and Norwegian producer Mona Fastvold Photograph: Gilbert Flores/Amelia Dimoldenberg, creator of the YouTube Series Chicken Shop Date, back on the red carpet for the second year in a row interviewing the stars as they arrive wearing Valentino Photograph: David Fisher/REX/Shutterstock
Scarlett Johansson wearing a blue velvet dress by Mugler Photograph: John Salangsang/BEI/REX/Shutterstock
Miley Cyrus arrives on the red carpet in custom McQueen Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
Ralph Fiennes attends the 97th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 2, 2025. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images) Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
Monica Barbaro arriving at the Oscars in a sugar pink Dior gown with a full skirt Photograph: John Locher/Invision/AP
Guy Pearce in Brunello Cucinelliand a Free Palestine dove-shaped pin to his lapel. Pearce previously wore tonight's protest pin in January. At the time he told reporters that he thought it was 'important to recognise everybody in the world, particularly when things are imbalanced'. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
The costume designer for Nosferatu Linda Muir wearing Lucius Matis, a designer born in Romania. She told Vogue: 'Lucian has combined a modern silhouette, traditional European techniques, and handmade Transylvanian needlework or authentic embroidery motifs created in crystal. I feel like pure gold!'
Photograph: David Fisher/REX/Shutterstock