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Published on March 2, 2025
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The holy grail of red carpet fashion, the Academy Awards is the moment when stars bring their sartorial best. More and more, that means collaborating with a major luxury fashion house on a gown or tuxedo, an endeavor that can take weeks or months and an army of seamstresses, tailors and artisans. That effort also translates to the world of jewelry, where pieces can be customized to their A-list wearers, or selected from jewelry maisons’ annual high jewelry collections and archival curations—both of which offer handmade works that often take exponentially longer than their accompanying couture gowns to create. From stone sourcing and matching (an endeavor that can take years, even decades), to intricate goldsmithing and hand finishing, Oscars jewelry is always a labor of love.
The jewelry theme of this year’s Academy Awards was undoubtedly diamonds—even Doja Cat sang “Diamonds Are Forever,” the classic made famous by Shirley Bassey, in tribute to the . On the red carpet, there were many classic diamond colliers and bibs, from Mikey Madison’s Tiffany & Co. Edwardian era piece to Scarlett Johansson’s De Beers drop necklace with almost 75 carats of diamonds. Others chose traditional diamond necklaces but wore them with a literal twist: Margaret Qualley’s Chanel High Jewelry diamond lariat-style necklace was turned to the back, as was Michelle Yeoh’s diamond tie-necklace from Boucheron. Of course, there were plenty of , extending last year’s men’s lapel pin trend in new, creative ways.
Here, a closer look at the best jewelry from the big night.
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Zoe Saldaña in Cartier
Image Credit: Getty The new Best Supporting actress wore a custom Saint Laurent tiered gown, along with a Cartier diamond necklace from the maison’s new Nature Sauvage high jewelry collection. The actress hand selected the “Panthere Versatiles” necklace with a 10.10-carat Zambian emerald, which can transform into a piece of shoulder jewelry and took nearly three years to complete.
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Gal Gadot in Tiffany & Co.
Image Credit: Getty The actress paired a Prada gown with an Angela Cummings for Tiffany & Co. Archives gold and diamond necklace along with Tiffany Victoria rings and a Jean Schlumberger by Tiffany & Co. ring.
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Mikey Madison in Tiffany & Co.
Image Credit: Getty The “Anora” actress wore a pink-and-black Christian Dior gown with Tiffany & Co.’s archival necklace circa 1909-1919 that showcased the Edwardian era’s intricate metal work in platinum-iridium. Madison paired the necklace with platinum-and-diamonds earrings, ring and bracelet, plus a pink tourmaline cocktail ring.
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Ariana Grande in De Beers
Image Credit: Getty The “Wicked” actress chose simple diamond pieces by De Beers to let her Schiaparelli gown shine on the red carpet.
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Cynthia Erivo
Image Credit: Getty The “Wicked” actress and vocalist has an impressive personal collection of jewelry, which she often wears on the red carpet with her signature custom nails. Erivo did the same on Oscars night, wearing an assortment of diamond rings and hoops with a custom Louis Vuitton forest green velvet gown.
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Margaret Qualley in Chanel
Image Credit: Getty The actress and Chanel ambassador wore a long black velvet gown from the brand, inspired from its spring-summer 2005 runway collection, along with Chanel High Jewelry diamond pieces, including the “Motif Russe” necklace, she Qualley wore turned around on her back — perhaps a slight reference to “The Substance.”
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Elle Fanning in Cartier
Image Credit: Getty A custom Givenchy gown with a vintage nod received an equally time-traveling piece of jewelry in a1958 in platinum and white gold necklaces done with graduated garlands of brilliant-cut diamonds, draped over a twisted row of square- and circular-cut diamonds for the actress.
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Demi Moore in Chopard
Image Credit: Getty “The Substance” actress’s Chopard diamond fringed earrings from the brand’s Red Carpet collection were an equal statement to an Armani Privé gown.
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Kieran Culkin in Kwiat Fred Leighton
Image Credit: Getty; Kwiat Fred Leighton The Best Supporting Actor winner’s Kwiat Fred Leighton colored gemstone lapel pin and black-on-black Zegna tuxedo were a welcome palette cleanser to more over-the-top lapel brooches as of late.
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Lupita Nyong’o in Chanel
Image Credit: Getty The actress wore all Chanel, from a custom pleated ivory charmeuse dress with a resille bustier embroidered with silver crystal bugle beads and embellished with pearls and silver crystal braids, pearls straps, pearls cabochons, pearls tassels, and an ivory satin belt, inspired by look 74 from the maison’s spring-summer 1991 couture show, along with a variety of diamond-and-pearl pieces from the brand, some worn in Nyong’o’s hair.
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Colman Domingo in Boucheron
Image Credit: Getty The “Sing Sing” actor wore a look from Alessandro Michele’s new collection for Valentino, along with a TK watch and a variety of Boucheron pieces, a Ribbon clip from 1956, a bracelet made of two gold rope chains and pompom tassel from 1946, the Serpent Bohème stud earrings and the Fuzzy the Leopard Cat ring, paved with diamonds, set with emeralds and a tourmaline, in pink gold, with black lacquer.
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Michelle Yeoh in Boucheron
Along with its Plume de Paon pieces, Yeoh wore a Boucheron’s Quatre Radiant Edition High Jewelry tie-necklace, from back to front.
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Felicity Jones in Boucheron
Image Credit: Getty Adding to a silver trend for the evening, Jones wore Boucheron’s Vendôme Liseré pendant earrings, paved and set with diamonds on white gold with black lacquer, along with an Art Deco platinum and diamond bracelet from 1927 and the Vendôme Liseré solitaire ring set with a 4.10ct emerald-cut diamond.
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Selena Gomez in Bulgari
Image Credit: Getty The actress’s custom Ralph Lauren gown was paired with a Bulgari diamond necklace and earrings.
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Timothée Chalamet in Cartier
Image Credit: Getty Along with a custom Givenchy suit, Chalamet wore a Cartier Tradition gold, sapphire and white and fancy yellow diamond necklace from 1988, a Cartier Collection mini Baignoire watch from 1994, a Cartier Collection gold and diamond ring from 2005, 18k yellow gold, diamonds and a Panthère de Cartier gold and diamond ring.
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Paul Tazewell in Fred Leighton
Image Credit: Getty The costume designer, who won the award for his work in “Wicked,” had his own jewelry moment with a Fred Leighton diamond brooch on a Dolce & Gabbana suit and ascot.
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