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. 9. Jeremy Pope Speaking of all-black-everything and Mandarin collars: Pope, a Broadway fixture and recent Calvin Klein model, opted for a silky smooth Balmain ensemble that, between its graceful Tang suit silhouette and louche flared bottoms, looked very much like something Bruce Lee would’ve worn in his swaggering ’70s heyday. And while the whole bow motif thing might seem a touch tired in womenswear these days, swapping ’em in here on the jacket in place of the typical Chinese frog fasteners felt fresh and inspired. 8. Mick Jagger Dig through the GQ.com archives for any length of time, and you’ll find no shortage of photos of a young Mick Jagger looking stylish as all hell: prepped up in a classic striped rugby in 1964; splayed out on stage in a trim cricket jumper and Repettos a year later; getting married in St. Tropez in a rip-roaring three-piece and beat-to-shit canvas kicks in the early ’70s. So it was nice to see that at 81, Jagger still possesses the righteous verve that everyone from Harry Styles to Hedi Slimane continues to emulate today—even if the Stones frontman did have to trade his iconic heeled Cuban boots for a more sensible pair of Nike runners with his glittery pinstripe suit. 7. Mark Eydelshteyn We mean it as a total compliment when we say: What a perfectly weird suit for a perfectly weird guy. Hollywood’s newest sweetheart, Mark Eydelshteyn—one of the many breakout stars from the big winner of the night, Sean Baker’s Anora—looked great in his wonky double-breasted tuxedo by Balenciaga. The tux had great movement, which suited Eydelshteyn as he goofed around on the red carpet. A good sartorial precursor to the Anora team spending the rest of their evening dancing their faces off to t.A.T.u.’s 2002 hit “All The Things She Said.” 6. Paul Tazewell Wicked costumer Paul Tazewell made history at last night’s ceremony, becoming the first Black man to win the Oscar for best costume design. (We like to think that his victory was at least partly thanks to his dripped-out vision for the film’s CGI goat professor, Dr. Dillamond.) He took to the stage in a fantastical custom tuxedo and an Oz-green watch, which lent a nice blend of old-school formality and whimsy—which were also two of the most winning qualities of his Wicked costume design—to the night’s menswear milieu. And what a cool move that, at the afterparty, Tazewell unfurled his ribbon collar while he held his Oscar statuette high. As he should! 5. Ralph Fiennes Savile Row heads, this one’s for you. Fiennes, ever the consummate Briton, turned to one of London’s most exciting young bespoke houses for his Oscars night look. Taillour, the brainchild of Timothy Everest vets Lee Rekert and Fred Nieddu, fashioned a tuxedo for the Conclave star in their signature uber-wide-lapelled cut. The garment draped across his figure immaculately, as you might imagine, a point that Fiennes drove home by displaying his spry physicality on the red carpet. A white-edged bow tie added the faintest touch of rebellious flourish to an otherwise classic rig executed to perfection. 4. Colman Domingo Colman Domingo’s red-carpet fashion has become its own awards-season spectator sport, and he is always his own best competition. At Sunday’s Oscars, the best actor nominee wore a lipstick-red Valentino tuxedo jacket with contrasting black lapels and a fringed sash tied at the waist, which he accessorized with a pair of rose-tinted glasses. No matter how the awards went, Domingo’s was an outfit fit for celebrating—and it’s no wonder that he started a party in the room during the commercial break. 3. Timothée Chalamet We’ll miss the freaky fever dream that was Timothée Chalamet’s A Complete Unknown press tour, but something tells me the now twice-thwarted best actor nominee will have something new up his sleeve in no time. It seems Chalamet and his stylist, Taylor McNeill, reached some sort of sartorial mind-meld over the past several months, as proven by this heater of a margarine-yellow leather suit designed by Givenchy’s incoming creative director Sarah Burton, which featured the inspired pairing of a cropped tuxedo jacket and snug trousers that fit like jeans. It was the most-discussed look of the night for good reason, even if it probably stung a little extra to have to gamely lose your category while dressed like a stick of butter. 2. Omar Apollo Pop star Omar Apollo, who appeared in the Oscar-snubbed Luca Guadagnino film Queer, was the menswear maximalist of the evening. But there’s a reason why you sometimes just want it with the works: The fishnet veil with the goatee and braids; the flared pants with the bow-dotted ballet flats; the polka-dot shirt with the fringed scarf where a tie should be. We’ve had it with these Hollywood guys throwing on a single brooch and calling it a day (though, of course, Apollo had one of those on, too). When the vibe is right, more certainly is more. 1. Sebastian Stan This is it, folks: the nexus of traditional, Old Hollywood black-tie and radical, New Hollywood high-fashion. Designed expressly for the best-actor nominee by taste gods Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, Stan’s Prada tuxedo truly—as Stefon might put it—had everything: swooping, elongated shawl lapels; a flatteringly broad cummerbund; razor-sharp, full-legged trousers; and a right-on-time pair of gleaming square-toe shoes. But the pièce de résistance, the reason this look landed in the number-one spot, is the shirt. The wide, crepey pleats and soft winged collar are on their own winsome spins on tuxedo-shirt hallmarks; paired with that creamy ecru tone, however, it elevates the whole endeavor to a hall-of-fame-worthy Oscar-night kit.