The 15 Best-Dressed Stars At The 2025 Governors Awards

There’s a particular kind of hush that settles over Hollywood when awards season begins not loud, not frantic, just a gentle tightening of zippers, a smoothing of silk, a quiet return to glamour’s ritual. And this Sunday, at the 2025 Governors Awards, that hush unfurled once again.

Technically, this ceremony has always been the understated sibling in the awards-season family tree. No viral host monologues, no frantic campaign energy. Yet year after year, it is here on this quieter carpet that some of the industry’s most intriguing fashion choices rise to the surface. Almost like the stars exhale, loosen the pressure valve, and dress with a softer kind of intention.

Perhaps that’s why Angelina Jolie once arrived in anonymous vintage, or why Tilda Swinton slipped into a tomato-red Standing Ground dress long before it was a household name. The Governors Awards don’t just celebrate cinema’s titans, they give style room to breathe.

This year followed the same whispered rhythm.

Jessie Buckley appeared in a black turtleneck paired with a sweeping black skirt, an outfit so clean, so controlled, that it became its own kind of poetry. Jacob Elordi and Joe Alwyn leaned into their respective period projects with suit choices that felt pulled from a time capsule yet entirely modern in silhouette.

And then came the subtle method dressing that makes red carpets feel like miniature short films of their own. Ariana Grande returned to her Glinda softness in an asymmetrical Dior Fall 2007 look sourced from Timeless Vixen, while Cynthia Erivo floated in a pistachio-green Sarah Burton-era Givenchy coat dusted with multicoloured florals an impressionist painting disguised as outerwear.

Even co-stars walked the carpet in lockstep: Chase Infiniti and Teyana Taylor, dressed in a way that suggested their shared narrative didn’t end on set.

Honourees Dolly Parton, Tom Cruise, Debbie Allen, and Wynn Thomas were celebrated for their monumental contributions to cinema but the fashion, as always, carved its own subplot. From Anya Taylor-Joy’s ethereal Maison Margiela Couture moment to the welcome appearance of the Frankenstein cast (Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth, both favouring sleek restraint), the Governors Awards reminded us why this ceremony remains a quiet fashion favourite: the looks speak louder when the room is softer.

Scroll through to experience the best-dressed stars from the 2025 Governors Awards.