STYLE LESSONS FROM OSCAR WINNERS

The film: Call Me By Your Name, 2017

What it won: Best Adapted Screenplay

This sunsoaked tale of clandestine meetings, first loves and dodgy dealings with peaches is rightly proud of its 80s garms. Baggy, short-sleeved shirts, chino shorts, cut-offs and polos abound as Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalomet romp around the Italian countryside. It's the style blueprint for all our future summer holidays. 

The lesson: fall in love with the 80s 

This guy has very much taken the summer throwback vibe to heart. The shorts are practically the swimming trunks Hammer wears for half the film; the shirt could be one of Chalomet's date-night ones; the tennis-vibes trainers and ankle socks were made for scuffing up in the Lombardy soil. Just substitute the clutch bag for a battered old novel and he could be an extra. 

The film: The Godfather Part II, 1974

What it won: Best Picture

Look at Al Pacino here and tell us that’s not one hella cool gangster. Mafia boss Michael Corleone showed that crime does pay ­– in the fashion stakes, anyway – with his slicked-back hair, sharp-as-a-shank suits and that silk cravat.

The lesson: keep your cravats close…

Take your own Italiano styling tip from this guy, who’s done away with the slickness of Corleone’s style but not lost the steez. His neckerchief lifts what would be a low-key outfit of utility staples, adding interest and colour. Bellissimo.

The film: The Graduate, 1967

What it won: Best Director (Mike Nichols)

If you’d have told us as kids that the kind of cord blazer our geography teachers wore could look cool, we’d have eaten our beanies. But, with Dustin Hoffman’s awkward Benjamin Braddock flying the flag for 60s normcore, a style legacy of dad staples now influences menswear’s finest. 

The lesson: here’s to you, normcore staples

Replace his polo shirt with an Fair Isle knit, and his clean-shaven look with an impressive beard, and you’ve got this guy’s woodsman-meets-dadcore getup. In summer, just switch up the jumper and boots for a white tee and running trainers, and it's a fail-safe year-round look. 

The film: Annie Hall, 1977

What it won: Best Picture

Arguably everyone’s favourite Woody Allen movie, Annie Hall won big at the Oscars (Best Director and Best Actress awards backing up Best Picture). If we were giving out the gongs, though, they’d go to Diane Keaton’s wardrobe. Famously androgynous, it’s a symphony of 70s menswear staples – waistcoats, ties, white shirts and wide-leg chinos. 

The lesson: wide-leg trousers always win

This guy knows the enduring power of pale, wide-leg trousers to elevate an outfit. He’s taken tips from both Diane and Woody here, going loose, rumpled and white. Toned down and brought up to date with the dark canvas of a navy roll-neck and charcoal coat, it’s just the right side of Manhattan beatnik. 

The film: Ray, 2004

What it won: Best Actor (Jamie Foxx)

The inimitable Ray Charles, as portrayed by Jamie Foxx, wore some jazzy suits. Too jazzy, maybe, for us to endorse here. But one thing you can absolutely take away from his on-screen wardrobe is his side-striped trousers – a micro-trend with which menswear’s highest echelons have long been in love. 

The lesson: a bit on the side is a good thing

It’s not confined to formalwear, either – the tux-style detail peps up streetwear and jersey, too. Here, this stylish dude shows that it can work on denim and on tracksuits by mashing the two things together in a surprisingly successful partnership.

The film: Milk, 2008

What it won: Best Actor (Sean Penn)

A retro T-shirt is a perennial style winner. Just ask Sean Penn, here playing pioneering politician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk. He wears his with pride in a public parade – you just need to wear yours with pride.

The lesson: put yourself through the ringer

Slogans make the perfect partner for a close-cut, vintage-looking ringer tee. With echoes of Sex Education's retro summer-camp vibe, it’ll make you look like you’ve just spent a weekend holed up in a cabin in the Catskills, getting up to all sorts of japes, even if all you’ve been doing is watching True Detective in your PJs.