While most eyes are usually on the <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/2024/03/11/oscars-2024-fashion-women/" target="_blank">gorgeous gowns</a> that sweep down the red carpet at the <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/tags/oscars/" target="_blank">Oscars</a> ceremony, the 96th Academy Awards delivered some snappy-looking gents too. Actors Cillian Murphy (who won the <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film-tv/2024/03/11/oscars-2024-full-winners-list/" target="_blank">Oscar for <i>Oppenheimer</i></a>) and Sterling K Brown led the charge for traditional tuxedos worn with a white shirt and bow tie, but inevitably showed up in several iterations over the course of the night. William Dafoe and Steven Yeun both arrived wearing head-to-toe black, pairing their suits with black shirts and black ties, while tennis star Roger Federer kept it old school in a cream jacket and black tie. This is the <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film-tv/2024/03/10/live-oscars-2024/" target="_blank">Oscars</a>, however, so outfits also arrived with a twist, such as ditching the tie altogether and wearing the shirt open-necked as seen on Chris Hemsworth and Mahershala Ali – enough to have the purists up in arms – while Mark Ruffalo matched his suit with a red badge calling for a <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine-israel/2024/03/08/live-israel-gaza-war-biden-aid/" target="_blank">Gaza</a> ceasefire. The ultimate in dressing down was actor Donald Glover, who arrived at the <i>Vanity Fair </i>party not only open-necked, but also open-shirted. Coloured suiting was in evidence seen as a deep chocolate suit on Matthew McConaughey, and a sharp double-breasted mulberry one on Ke Huy Quan. John Krasinski went for head-to-toe cream and white, while influencer Ian Boggs was spotted in a cropped pink suit. Robert Downey Jr wore a suit with serious power shoulders and what look like flared trousers, while Bradley Cooper teamed his suit with the ultimate accessory, his mother. <i>Barbie </i>star Ryan Gosling went one better, and brought both his mother and his sister. Amid the razor-sharp suits, an honourable mention must go to musician Slash, who arrived dressed exactly as normal, in leather, a top hat and dark glasses, While he does not score any points for thinking outside the box, there is something to be said for sartorial consistency.
