If the menswear at last year’s Oscars was truly just Ken, we’re grateful the fellas this year showed up with a little more…Substance.
On Sunday night, the biggest red-carpet stars at the 97th Academy Awards were also some of the biggest stars of the whole shebang. Three actors in competition—Colman Domingo, Timothée Chalamet, and Jeremy Strong—happened to be dogged fashion plates, and thus were all but guaranteed to pull up in envelope-pushing ensembles. But even their fellow nominees, Sebastian Stan and Ralph Fiennes, cranked up the volume on their standard black tuxedos.
Heavy on the straight-off-the-runway designer garms, timeless British tailoring, and more than a few swing-for-the-fences swerves, it all added up to one of the more exciting menswear spectacles in recent Oscar memory. Here are the 11 best-dressed men from the 2025 Academy Awards, definitively ranked.
11. Jeremy Strong
Still the number-one boy in our hearts, best supporting actor nominee Jeremy Strong hit the Oscars carpet in his signature hue—brown—by way of a taut, cortado-toned tuxedo with sharp lapels and a matching criss-crossed bow tie. The tux hailed from Loro Piana, the Italian luxury brand with whom Strong has maintained a close relationship since his Succession days. (Loro Piana also made Kendall Roy’s most notorious accessory: a $625 logoless cashmere baseball cap.) Anyways, props to Strong for continuing to incorporate his signature quirks into just about any genre of formalwear.
10. Samuel L. Jackson
As per usual, a handful of fellas attempted the all-black-everything look—a move with a higher degree of difficulty than you might think, because it’s tough to pull off without looking like a Vegas nightclub bouncer. Our guy Samuel L. managed to sidestep that issue by way of an elegant Giorgio Armani notch-lapel tuxedo—understated save for a touch of festive sequins along the interior edges of the jacket and down the seams of the trousers—paired with a crisp Mandarin-collar shirt and some textbook, right-on-trend accountant glasses. The only thing missing? One of his signature backwards Kangols, which would’ve rocketed him up this list by at least a couple of spots.
