26 Beautiful Women Over 50 Who Rocked Their Red Carpet Gowns

Laura Dern

The 50-year-old actress looked simple and elegant at the 2017 Academy Awards red carpet. Does she ever make a wrong move with her style?

Viola Davis

At the 2017 Oscars, 51-year-old Davis was a vision in red--and she later won her first Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Fences.

Trudie Styler

On the arm of her husband, Sting, 63-year-old Trudie Styler looked stylish and radiant as always at this year's Oscars.

Tracy Pollan

The actress (and wife of Michael J. Fox) lit up the red carpet in bright bold blue at the 2017 Academy Awards. How gorgeous is that necklace?

Sarah Jessica Parker

At the 2017 Golden Globe Awards, the 51-year-old actress looked ravishing in a white dress with decidedly trendy peekaboo shoulders.

Bernadette Peters

In an age-defying strapless red hot number, 68-year-old Peters looks fresh-faced and downright sexy.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

At the 2017 Globes, nominee Louis-Dreyfus, 55, went with asymmetrical black and white. So chic!

Goldie Hawn

Her off-the-shoulder black gown belies her age (71!) and makes her look sophisticated and glamorous.

Annette Bening

Three words we have for this 58-year-old star: Timeless, elegant, classic.

Viola Davis

We love the bold, cheery one-shoulder donned by the 51-year-old Golden Globe winner.

Judith Light

We love that Light, 67, went with a daring zebra pattern for her sparkly down. Who says that animal prints are too trendy for older women? Not us!

Felicity Huffman

We love that Huffman (who is 54) wore a gown that is actually pants! Comfort AND style: She played the night perfectly.

Kelly Preston

She dazzled in a ruffly silver gown. The actress and former model, 54, had a cute date night with husband John Travolta at the Golden Globes.

At the 2006 Oscars, Judi Dench was a mere 72 years old. She looks radiant!

Emma Thompson, 56, flaunts her fab self at the Berlin film festival in February, 2016.

Holly Hunter at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2014. She was 55 that year. Love the ponytail!

Diane Lane just turned 51. Here she is at this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Glenn Close, strutting her stuff at the 2012 Oscars, turned 65 three weeks after this red-carpet event.

Helen Mirren looks so much younger than 71--in a good way. Here she at the Golden Globes in January.

The BAFTAs are the British version of the Oscars. Here's Angela Bassett, 57, looking awesome in hot-pink. She'll be 58 this July.

Jodie Foster at the 2014 Glamour Magazine Women of the Year awards. She was 52 that year.

Meryl Streep, then 65, at the Oscars in 2015. She'll turn 66 this June.

Sandra Bullock's sweet personality shines through and makes her eternally youthful. Here, she's at the 2014 Oscars, the year she turned 50.

Here is Michelle Pfeiffer at the 2010 Oscars. She turned 52 about six weeks later.

Hard to believe, but Susan Sarandon will be 70 this year. At the Screen Actors Guild Awards in January she managed to look sexy AND classy at the same time.

Jessica Lange had just turned 66 when she appeared at the Critics' Choice TV awards in May 2015.