Maria Steenburgen just gave a sartorial nod to her 1981 Oscar win.
The 71-year-old actress attended the Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10, wearing a strapless black floor-length dress by Tom Ford with a thigh-high slit and gold buckle detailing down the front.
During the presentation of the award for Best Supporting Actress (which was won by Da’Vine Joy Randolph), Steenburgen added a black velvet jacket on top – the same velvet jacket she wore when she won Best Supporting Actress in 1981 for her role in Melvin and Howard.
The mid-length jacket had long sleeves and yellow floral embroidery throughout.
Steenburgen presented Randolph, 37, with her award next to it Lupita Nyong’o, Jamie Lee Curtis, Rita Moreno And Regina Kingall of whom have previously won the prestigious award.
Steenburgen accessorized her red carpet look with a small beaded bag and bracelets. She wore her hair straightened and wore black eyeliner, smokey eyeshadow and pink lipstick for the occasion.
Before he went to the ceremony, Steenburgen said Etalk that this was the first time she presented an award at the Oscars.
“I never presented because the year after I won I had a little baby and I was working in Europe and I couldn’t leave her and fly all the way back so I never did,” Steenburgen explained, adding admits: “It just feels sweet. I probably appreciate it even more now than then.”
Like Steenburgen, Nyong’o, 41, also put a lot of effort into her Oscars dress. Eagle-eyed viewers noticed that the baby blue Armani Privé dress Nyong’o wore to Sunday’s ceremony was strikingly similar to the Prada dress she wore to the 2014 Oscars, where she won Best Supporting Actress for her role in 12 years slave.
Nyong’o’s stylist, Micaela Erlanger, went to Instagram that same day to reveal how the 2014 look “changed the course of my career.”
“It was a journey,” Erlanger continued. “I knew from the start that our dress was very special in its simplicity, in its elegance, with the soft blue color and delicate beading. But I couldn’t even imagine it would have the impact it did.”