Kristen Wiig in Oscar de la Renta

This HAS to be her best dress ever, right? It's fantastic. The basket-weave look is so appealingly tactile and creative. Dreamy.

Christine Baranski in Oscar de la Renta

That's custom, and it shows. Also, the deep lip and shoe are divine complements. The Queen of Broads is here to reign.

Jennifer Aniston in Oscar de la Renta

Jen is doing what Jen does. This is good on her, and unsurprising -- and at this point in her life, fine. She doesn't need to get all artsy-directional. It's a good version of her consistent aesthetic.

Catherine O'Hara in custom Oscar de la Renta

Oscar had a BUSY NIGHT, wow.

Nicola Coughlan in custom Prabal Gurung

She's like a sexy Tin Woman. It looks incredible on her; the top looks like they built it on her body.

Ella Purnell in Rabanne

This is also amazing. It's foxy, it's disco, it's walking out of Studio 54.

Candice Bergen

Why yes, Candice, we DO think you look fabulous. (Also her VP joke was excellent.)

Lily Gladstone

Not gold or silver, but copper is also a shiny metal! This is a custom chest plate by Kwakwaka’wakw designer Agnes Seaweed Wisden, who also did her rings and bracelet. Lily has done a great job combining access to major designers with ways to rep the indigenous culture. (Also, Lily's face is AMAZING, good lord.)

in Rodarte

I wonder if the dress itself was designed with the chestplate in mind -- surely it was? It's so simple and lets the jewelry be the star, but also fits like a dream. It is HELLA restrained Rodarte.

Dakota Fanning in Armani

This is fine, but I looked at this and thought, "Seems like an Elizabeth Debicki dress," and then realized... how have I not noticed that Debicki and Dakota look quite alike?!?

Nakata Kurumi and Tadanobu Asano

He is in Shogun, and was nominated individually, but didn't win; when the show won, he delivered a speech in Japanese, and Nakata (his wife, also an actress) was SOBBING. It was lovely. She looks stunning.

Gillian Anderson in Emilia Wickstead

This is wonderful wearable Jiffy Pop, but I'd have slicked back the hair into a low bun. It looks fried as hell. And I say that as someone whose hair is currently overdue for some love from a hairdresser.

Katie Aselton, Mark Duplass

Very nice! Also she's not being totally random here -- she had just been wrangling her dress so that it floated around her, but the pics of it weren't as good.

RuPaul

This feels like Ru Does Yellowstone.

Reese Witherspoon (in Dior) and Laura Dern

Reese's detailing looked a bit more twinkly gold on-camera, so let's assume... that is correct. She looks fine; I think it was better on video than in this picture, in all ways. Laura looks like Marmee at Aunt March's funeral, having finally inherited the family's one bauble.

Jon Hamm and Anna Osceola

Very pretty. Thank you, Anna, for being shiny so that we could stick Jon in here and make the black outfits post that extra bit smaller.

Laverne Cox in vintage McQueen

And yes, this is predominantly black, but the metallic bits a focal point. I only just noticed it's a tiger on her skirt. This is really effective, because while we missed the bottom on TV, she made sure she still looked snazzy on camera by adding the necklace.

This reminds me a little of the time Ross whitened his teeth and they glowed in the dark.

Silver and Gold Shone Brightly at the 2024 Emmys

As well they ought.