The best looks from the 2025 Academy Museum Gala red carpet

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The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures held its 5th yearly star-studded fundraising gala Saturday astatine its Wilshire Boulevard campus.

An unrecognizable Kim Kardashian, Selena Gomez, Demi Moore and Elle and Dakota Fanning were among the personage guests astatine the event, which debuted successful 2021 upon the movie museum’s long-awaited opening. The gala raises funds for depository exhibitions, acquisition initiatives and nationalist programming. The Academy Museum collected a grounds $12 million-plus from the event.

This year’s gala honorees included histrion Penélope Cruz, manager Walter Salles, comedian Bowen Yang and instrumentalist Bruce Springsteen, who was presented by Martin Scorsese with the inaugural Legacy Award and performed unrecorded astatine the ceremony. A biopic astir the stone legend, starring “The Bear’s” Jeremy Allen White, hits theaters Oct. 24.

Springsteen and Cruz, the recipient of this year’s Icon Award, are some Academy Award winners, the erstwhile for his archetypal opus “Streets of Philadelphia” — which helium wrote for Tom Hanks’ 1993 ineligible play “Philadelphia” — and the second for her relation successful “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (2008).

Salles, presented by Wim Wenders with the Luminary Award for innovative filmmaking, past twelvemonth gave Brazil its archetypal Academy Award for planetary movie with his moving household play “I’m Still Here.” Fernanda Torres was besides nominated for her relation arsenic the Paiva household matriarch successful the 2024 movie.

Yang received from Jon M. Chu the Vantage Award, “honoring an creator oregon student who has helped to contextualize and situation ascendant narratives astir cinema.” The “SNL” darling and “Las Culturistas” podcast big volition instrumentality arsenic Glinda’s sidekick Pfannee successful “Wicked: For Good,” hitting theaters Nov. 21.

The gala was co-chaired by Jon M. Chu, Common, Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey, Jennifer Hudson and Academy Museum trustee Alejandro Ramírez Magaña.

Gala attendees spared nary disbursal with their donations oregon their ensembles, with Jenna Ortega wearing a futuristic Grace Ling halter top, Rachel Zegler channeling Old Hollywood successful Tamara Ralph Couture, Olivia Rodrigo sporting vintage Giorgio Armani Privé and Eva Longoria rocking Elie Saab.

Here are the champion looks, captured by Times lensman Eric Thayer.