“Diamonds Are Forever,” sang Doja Cat in a musical tribute to 60 years of James Bond films at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 2, at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. Apropos—since that was the overriding jewelry theme of the night. (Though while she was singing the Shirley Bassey classic, Doja was dripping in roughly 1 million Swarovski crystals.)

Here, we break down a dozen of the most dazzling, diamond-filled looks of the night.

Michelle Yeoh

When we grow up, we’d like to be as cool as Wicked’s Shiz sorceress and Everything Everywhere All at Once Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh. The strapless blue Balenciaga! The Boucheron Plume ear cuff! The backlace! And, yes, of course, she was wearing one of her beloved bejeweled Richard Mille timepieces.

 

Cynthia Erivo

The details hadn’t been announced, but everyone pretty much knew the two Wicked witches—Oscar nominees Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande—would be performing “Defying Gravity” during the telecast. Fortunately, we only had to wait for the show-opening medley: First, Grande sung Judy Garland’s signature “Over the Rainbow,” wearing Dorothy-coded sequined red heels and a Daniel Roseberry for Schiaparelli gown with a ruby slipper affixed to her back; then, Erivo performed Dorothy’s ballad “Home” from the 1975 musical The Wiz. Finally, the duo went into Wicked’s now-ubiquitous anthem, which finished with Erivo’s roof-raising riff. For her performance, Erivo wore a decidedly non-Elphaba-esque custom floral-trimmed Vivienne Westwood ballgown based on a piece from the designer’s spring-summer 1997 “Viva La Bagatelle” collection, accessorized with art deco–style white gold and diamond jewels from Marli New York. How will she ever top this next year when she’s plugging the sequel, Wicked: For Good?

 

Paul Tazewell

In 2019, Black Panther’s Ruth E. Carter became the first Black woman to win an Oscar for costume design. On Sunday, Paul Tazewell—the man behind Glinda’s diaphanous gowns and Elphaba’s swooping skirts in Wicked—became the first Black man to win in the category. And he did it with style to spare, in a Kwiat Ashoka diamond snake ring, Fred Leighton art deco emerald and diamond cufflinks, and the brooch to end all brooches—a diamond and platinum Fred Leighton from the 1950s. It’s good to see him, isn’t it?

 

Mikey Madison

Everyone loves to drop the phrase old Hollywood glamour, but we rarely see it executed so well: Here’s surprise Best Actress winner Mikey Madison, the young star of Anora—which won Best Picture and four other awards—wearing Dior haute couture, inspired by “Bal à Paris,” a 1956 spring-summer Christian Dior gown. And the pièce de résistance: an Edwardian diamond necklace straight out of the Tiffany & Co. archives. (Madison’s other jewels—diamond studs, a marquise and round diamond cluster bracelet, a sweet pink tourmaline and diamond ring, and a 9+ ct. diamond ring—were lovely too.) At the Oscars we also saw Gal Gadot in an Angela Cummings for Tiffany 1980 gold petal necklace and Robert Downey Jr. sporting a Schlumberger for Tiffany brooch from 1956. At the SAG Awards, Jeremy Allen White surprised us with a late–art deco Tiffany brooch. Note to stylists: Keep digging into the big jewelry brands’ archives.

 

Timothée Chalamet

Nominated for his star turn as a young Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, Chalamet has been totally unpredictable fashion-wise on the awards-show circuit this season. No one could have called this butter-yellow Givenchy leather tuxedo by Sarah Burton. But you knew the Cartier ambassador was going to break out some eye-popping pieces. The spiky yellow gold and diamond rings? A late-’80s chunky chain link necklace with a yellow diamond center? The coveted mid-1990s mini Baignoire watch? As Dylan sang: “Once upon a time you dressed so fine…”

 

Selena Gomez

We thought Selena Gomez couldn’t top her baby-blue Prada Golden Globes gown…and then we saw her step onto the red carpet at the Oscars in this custom Ralph Lauren blush design—covered in 16,000 (!) glass-like beads—which took a team of 12 people to create. Her look was reportedly inspired by Sophia Loren, so it’s only fitting that the Emilia Pérez star selected diamonds from Loren’s favorite jeweler, Bulgari.

 

Colman Domingo

Our favorite fashionable male star, Best Actor nominee Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), again stole the show in a sash-tied tuxedo jacket by Alexander Michele for Valentino. Continuing the ribbon motif were two pieces from the Boucheron Private Collection: the Ribbon clip on his lapel (Domingo does love a brooch) and the gold rope chain bracelet with a pompom tassel. And just for fun—Serpent Bohème stud earrings and a Fuzzy the Leopard ring. The man never misses.

 

Halle Berry

“My entire career I wanted to dress one person at the Oscars, and that’s Halle Berry,” designer Christian Siriano said on E! preshow on the red carpet. And this shattered-mirror gown, which contains 7,000 beads, was worth the wait. Berry’s jewelry was appropriately edgy and modern: chain links and pavé styles from Italian brand Pomellato, in both cool white and warm rose gold.

 

Coralie Fargeat

And the backlace trend continues: We saw it on Michelle Yeoh, Margaret Qualley (costar of The Substance), producer Lisa Remington (a winner for her documentary short The Only Girl in the Orchestra), and Coralie Fargeat, a Best Director nominee for The Substance. To be fair, this cool Boucheron creation dangled even farther down the front than it did down the back—it reached almost to Fargeat’s waist. But we’re still putting it in the backlace category.

 

Demi Moore

The night might have been a disappointment for Demi Moore, surely the odds-on favorite to win Best Actress for her starring role in the sci-fi satire The Substance. But if it’s any consolation, she won big-time with this look: a custom crystal-embroidered Armani Privé gown and nearly 100 carats of Chopard diamonds.

 

Zoe Saldaña

Just as she did at the Golden Globes, Emilia Pérez’s Best Supporting Actress winner Zoe Saldaña debuted a Cartier High Jewelry creation on the red carpet: the Panthère Versatiles, from the Nature Sauvage collection. Composed of 18k white gold, onyx, diamonds, and a 10.1 ct. Zambian emerald, the necklace, described by the maison as “highly transformable,” took—wait for it—4,827 hours (34 months) to create. It can be worn not only as a necklace but also as a bracelet, and even as a piece of shoulder jewelry, using a second strand with a twin panther head.

 

Adrien Brody and Georgina Chapman

And speaking of highly transformable jewelry: If you’ve been following Best Actor winner Adrien Brody and his return to the spotlight with The Brutalist, you noticed that he was wearing yet another eye-popping nature-inspired brooch by Elsa Jin. This time, note that his partner, Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman, was wearing a coordinating single earring. The matching set—which contains 1,328 diamonds—can be two brooches or two earrings or, as on Brody and Chapman, a brooch and an earring. Jin calls the piece Goddess of Love.