Renate Reinsve in custom Louis Vuitton

This is something you could wear to a formal dinner on a girls' trip to a tropical location and all your friends will be like "DAMN GIRL YOU LOOK GREAT." This feels very aughts, but not in a bad way.

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas

She's beautiful and I do not think this is bad. It IS a little Prom/Formal Event at the Country Club -- a bit of an overcorrection, perhaps, from the last time she came to a major awards show and looked somewhat wacky. She should play Rachel Weisz's cousin in something.

Monica Belluci in Saint Laurent

Speaking of jewelry!!!!!

Emily Watson

This is extremely low key and chic on her; really well done. She looks like the stateswoman of acting that she is. (Also this is where I plug the series Harlots, where she and Lesley Manville are rival madames who try to ruin each other's lives, it is AMAZING. Do you like shows where a woman gets her arch enemy sent to an insane asylum? Watch Harlots.) (I've been corrected that this is actually SAMANTHA MORTON which I KNEW and I Googled to check and Google LIED TO ME!!! AI is ruining everything ANYWAY the rec stands.)

Milly Alcock

This neck piece makes this feel like someone looked at her in a reasonable black suit and thought, "this needs to feel more like a costume from a sort of kinky Hamilton adaptation."

Stellan Skarsgård

You are correct, sir, I do not have any notes here. Perfect.

Riz Ahmed

I promised you people draped in velvet! He, as ever, looks terrifically handsome.

Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal

He looks a little underbaked; she looks tremendously chic. The beaded detailing on her sleeves is great.

Ethan Hawke in Armani

You know that gesture people make when they snap their fingers on one hand and clap their other hand on top of the snapping fist? Is there a term for that? Because that's what he looks like he's doing and I just spent a lot of time trying to figure out if...there is a word for it. ANYWAY. I like the bolo tie.

Michael B. Jordan

STOP THE PRESSES: Handsome man is handsome.

Cillian Murphy

This is dapper; I forgot we get another round of Cillian Murphy as he's the outgoing Best Actor.

Timothée Chalamet in custom Givenchy

This is handsome on him and also he looks like he's DESPERATELY trying to grow out his hair to its normal, glorious proportions before the Oscars.

Regé-Jean Page

Rege-Jean Page wins, I think, the Best Man Brooch award. A very important award!

Patrick Dempsey and Talula Fyfe Dempsey

She is his daughter, not a new girlfriend, don't worry! Everyone here seems to be perfectly in order.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Same as it ever was. (Although he looks fine. I wish Leo would branch out occasionally. Call Seth Rogen's stylist and go for it. Wear an olive green velvet once in a while!)

Ryan Coogler and Zinzi Coogler

REASONABLE KLAXON.

Jack O'Connell

I look forward to seeing his performance as Abraham Lincoln in the new Hall of Presidents Immersive Experience but he better find that top hat.

Mia McKenna-Bruce in Miu Miu

I haven't said this about Miu Miu in a long time: I LOVE IT.

Odessa A'zion

Listen, I'll say this and I stand by it: I appreciate how lightly kooky and creative she is. This is like a sexy funeral shower curtain. (A sexy shower curtain AND a funeral shower curtain, of course, being very real things that everyone uses.)

Nathalie Emmanuel

This dress is so pretty; the rest of this styling is a little underwhelming. I don't love the choker?

Archie Madekwe

Are neck ruffs back?!?! Somewhere, QEI is STOKED.

Tilda Swinton in Chanel

This is ABSOLUTELY PERFECT, THANK YOU, GOODBYE.

EE BAFTA Film Awards 2026 - Arrivals

LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 22: Fatima Farheen Mirza and Riz Ahmed attend the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2026 at The Royal Festival Hall on February 22, 2026 in London, England. (Photo by Joe Maher/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)

BAFTAs 2026: Unsurprisingly, Many Folks Opted to Wear Black

Including several nominees.