8 Best-Dressed Stars Over 50 at the 2025 Oscars

The red carpet overflowed with Hollywood’s brightest stars as they gathered to celebrate the year’s biggest night in film: the 97th Academy Awards.

Serving up the evening’s most stunning looks? Stars over 50, naturally.

AARP’s Alison Maxwell and Nancy Kerr highlight the must-see outfits of the evening.

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Demi Moore, 62

The best-actress nominee for The Substance turned up the wattage in a figure-hugging Giorgio Armani Privé crystal-embroidered gown with pleating around the hips and plunging neckline. Moore, also an AARP Movies for Grownups best-actress winner, told ABC she was filled with joy at the big event. “I feel like I'm bursting,” she gushed. “[The nomination] is just still in so many ways, so unexpected and just really, just a joy. I’m just really trying to stay present so I don’t miss any of it.”

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Joan Chen, 63

The Didi star turned heads in a chartreuse off-the-shoulder Elie Saab gown, complemented by a crisscross neckline and pooling train. Chen, a 2025 AARP Movies for Grownups best-supporting-actress winner, told AARP that after a dearth of parts in her 30s, she is seeing an uptick in quality roles for women over 50. “It is important to promote the completeness — the fullness, the beauty, the horror — the entire experience of being 50 and over,” she said.

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Laura Dern, 58

The best-supporting-actress winner for Marriage Story in 2020 ditched the dress and opted for an elegant Gucci tuxedo.

Dern had a red-carpet reunion with her Blue Velvet co-star (and supporting-actress nominee for Conclave) Isabella Rossellini, 72.  “We decided to come together (to the awards), because we were here first when both our mothers were nominated,” Rossellini said. Dern’s mother, Diane Ladd, received three Oscar nominations and Rossellini’s mother, Ingrid Bergman, won three Oscars.

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Fernanda Torres, 59

It’s all in the family for the I’m Still Here best-actress nominee, who is the second Brazilian actress nominated for an Oscar. The first? Her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, for Central Station in 1999. Torres looked elegant in a Chanel gown that took 450 hours to make, according to the brand.