8 Best-Dressed Stars Over 50 at the 2024 Oscars

The red carpet is back and so are stars! Hollywood’s elite came to see and be seen Sunday at film’s biggest party of the year, the 96th Academy Awards. And it is no surprise that many of the boldest and brightest looks were served up by — you guessed it! — celebrities over 50.

AARP’s Alison Maxwell and Nancy Kerr showcase the night’s must-see ensembles:

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​​​​​Rita Moreno, 92

“This is me doing my best Chita Rivera tribute,” the acting legend told ABC News. (Rivera died in January at age 91.) Moreno, who won a best supporting actress Oscar in 1962 for West Side Story, recalled her big night: “I didn’t think I was going to win. I was sure Judy Garland was going to win for Judgment at Nuremberg, where she acted rather than sang,” she said. “And [when she won] I remember saying 'don’t run to the stage' to myself, it’s not dignified, and I was able to do that. But then I didn’t know what to say, I was not prepared, so I did one of the world’s shortest acceptance speeches ever!”​

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Jamie Lee Curtis, 65 

They say the devil’s in the details, and sometimes that’s a good thing! Take Curtis’ stunning gold cuff with a diamond-encrusted replica of the Winged Victory of Samothrace designed by Cathy Waterman. “What an inspiration she’s been for Cathy and it’s my great honor to wear her to the Oscars on my wrist,” Curtis wrote on Instagram. Curtis, in Dolce & Gabbana, won her first Oscar last year for her supporting work in Everything Everywhere All at Once and told AARP she’s embracing “the beautiful gift of aging.” “The things that are unimportant slip away. … Carpe diem — seize the day. And I am seizing the day daily, because I have no f------ time to waste.”​

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Jodie Foster, 61 

Friends forever — that’s how Foster, a supporting actress nominee for Nyad, described her relationship with costar Annette Bening. In fact, she told ABC on the red carpet that their friendship is the “best thing” that came out of the film. Foster, who also won AARP’s Movies for Grownups award for best supporting actress, stunned in a bespoke Loewe gown in midnight blue.  

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Marlee Matlin, 58 

Matlin channeled Oscars past in a lavender sequined Rodarte gown with a deep scoop neck — a hue similar to the lacy purple number she wore in 1987 while nabbing an Oscar for Children of  a Lesser God. The CODA actress told E! Entertainment that the Academy has changed significantly since her historic win as the first deaf person to take an Oscar and the youngest best actress recipient. “I think there’s more collaboration, there’s more diversity, there’s just more visibility on the part of the people who have been underrepresented all these years,” she said. “It’s just a wonderful community coming together.”​​