“Adam, what are you wearing?” host Conan O’Brien asked Adam Sandler from the 2025 Oscars stage tonight. “You’re dressed like a guy playing video poker at 2 a.m.”
As per usual, Adam Sandler was wearing a Sandler fit: roomy logo hoodie, collared Hawaiian shirt, below-the-knee basketball shorts, and colorful sneakers. In other words, he was wearing what he always wears, which is the same sloppy, cozy assemblage of oversized streetwear that made him a no-fucks-given style god among comfort-minded Zoomers.
“Nobody even thought about what I was wearing until you brought it up,” Sandler shouted back at O’Brien. “I like the way I look. Because I’m a good person. I don’t care about what I wear and what I don’t wear. My snazzy gym shorts and fluffy sweatshirt offend you so much that you had to mock me in front of my peers!”
For years, we at GQ have casually wondered what the Sandman might wear if he attended the Oscars as a nominee. Could Hoka make him a custom pair of dress shoes? Where would he find a tuxedo-printed sweatshirt? Would he even wear pants at all? As it turns out, if that invite came during a year when the stakes were low enough, the actor managed to wear all of his favorite things to Hollywood’s biggest night anyways.
On the way out, Sandler also invited the audience to “a game of five-on-five basketball at Veteran Park tonight,” requesting that “the guy from” Nosterafu join his team while butchering the film’s pronunciation. On his way out, he wrapped his one-time pickup basketball partner Timothée Chalamet—a nominee for best actor tonight—in a big bear hug. They were two of the most colorfully dressed guys in the room.
