This Awards Season, Amy Madigan Has Out-Tailored the Men

When awards season rolls around, the menswear filling out the red carpets often falls into a rhythm of familiar, nearly identical tailoring. This year has largely followed suit. There have been bright spots, sure, in Timothée Chalamet’s louche Marty Supreme suits and Jacob Elordi’s steady stream of custom Bottega Veneta. But the true menswear standout in the lead-up to March’s Oscars hasn’t been a man at all. It’s Amy Madigan.

Instead of opting for the glitzy-and-diamonds repertoire requisite for actresses, Madigan and her stylist, Andrew Gelwicks, have gone about dressing with a menswear-leaning point of view. Naturally, the Weapons star has turned to leaders in men’s fashion. She has worn Thom Browne on two occasions: a sleek argyle suit and trousers (tie included) at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon, and a sharp topcoat, bowtie, and patent leather boots for her Golden Globes appearance in January.

Solidifying her cool status even further, Madigan turned to another proprietor of New York menswear at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. She wore a full Willy Chavarria look, composed of a boxy black suit cut for an ’80s CEO, a pinstripe-button down, and waxed denim jeans.

What sets Madigan apart isn’t just that she’s eschewed the typical awards dress for suiting. It’s that her suits and how she styles them are actually compelling, whether it be her choice to tuck a mint green tie into her waistband or slip on a pair of squared burgundy boots. She even made the bold choice to wear blue jeans, one of the most casual items of dress, to begin the season at the Critics’ Choice Awards. Topping them with an embroidered waistcoat from Jonathan Anderson’s pre-fall 2026 show for Dior Men, she created an ensemble that felt irreverent yet entirely red carpet appropriate.

And with an Oscar nomination lined up—her first since 1986—for the awards ceremony in a few weeks, Madigan shows no signs of abandoning her winning tailoring streak.