Oscars 2025 jewelry: The new, the archival, and the sentimental

Chokers

Necklaces stayed close to the neck. Zoe Saldaña, Best Supporting Actress winner, debuted Panthere Versatiles from Cartier’s new high jewelry collection. A labor of love that took 34 months to create, it was designed to look like a panther that wraps around the neck, featuring a speckled cord of onyx and diamonds and a 10-carat Zambian emerald. Elle Fanning went for archival Cartier from 1958, a lace-like, scalloped collier of diamonds. Gal Gadot also did vintage, pairing her red Prada gown with a choker of overlapping petals in gold, platinum and diamonds designed in 1980 by Angela Cummings for Tiffany & Co. Filipina-American singer H.E.R. went maximalist by layering four different necklaces of white and yellow diamonds by Chopard.

Drop necklaces

Some preferred their colliers dropped. Best Actress winner Mikey Madison punctuated her Dior gown, inspired by the 1956 Bal à Paris collection, with an incredible Edwardian platinum-iridium and diamond necklace crafted by Tiffany & Co. between 1909 and 1919, featuring an old European-cut 3.9-carat diamond at its center. Selena Gomez went for Bulgari diamonds with a pear-shaped drop, matched with an assortment of rings that included a marquise-cut engagement ring from her fiancé Benny Blanco. Isabella Rosellini went full-on sentimental, commemorating her film with the late David Lynch by wearing a blue velvet Dolce & Gabbana and the vintage Bulgari earrings of her mother, Ingrid Bergman, who wore the same pair when she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1975. The stunner was the Bulgari diamond necklace with an 18.47-ct blue sapphire center.

Frilled earrings

Earrings went frilled and linear, framing the face of Demi Moore who draped herself in Chopard diamonds that included the standout Gardens of Kalahari bracelet, one of the six jaw-dropping pieces from the legendary parure. Miley Cyrus chose earrings from Boucheron’s Histoire de Style, Like a Queen collection together with a Vendôme bracelet, worn with a cool edge over lace gloves.

Party at the back

Necklaces were worn at the back for high drama: A diamond fringe necklace draped elegantly between Margaret Qualley’s shoulder blades in an all-Chanel ensemble while Michelle Yeoh opted for a radiant tie necklace from Boucheron’s Quatre Radiant edition to accent her royal blue Balenciaga gown.

Man brooches

Brooches have become a man thing during awards season, adding zing to lapels of staid tuxes. The biggest belonged to Best Actor winner Adrien Brody who attached his Elsa Jin “winged victory” piece on his chest. Best Supporting Actor winner Kieran Culkin went more subdued in size but added color and emotional resonance with a Kwiat Fred Leighton lapel pin in Colombian emerald, purple sapphire and peridot—the birthstones of his wife and two kids. Paul Tazewell, the first black man to win an Oscar for Costume Design, used a Fred Leighton 1950s diamond brooch on his collar.

Men pile it on

Aside from brooches, the men were wearing many other pieces all together. Red Carpet star Timothée Chalamet mined Cartier for a white and fancy yellow diamond Tradition necklace from 1988 to use on his collar instead of a tie, a mini Baignoire 1994 watch of diamonds, rubies, and sapphires posing as a bracelet and a couple of Cartier Collection and Panthère rings. Colman Domingo, in red Valentino, wasn’t shy either, piling on the Boucheron—a 1956 ribbon clip, a 1946 bracelet of gold rope chains and pompom tassel, the Serpent Bohème stud earrings and the Fuzzy the Leopard Cat ring with a striking tourmaline.