Come movie awards season, all eyes – and camera lenses – are focused on the red carpet. But as killer as Oscars host Chris Rock’s white Burberry tux was, are we really going to be referencing it 10 years from now? We’d bet the cost of a white Burberry tux not.

With that in mind, the FashionBeans academy has assembled a shortlist of the most gong-worthy tailoring ever to grace the silver screen, from unassailable classics to some contemporary flicks we wager will enter the canon in the decades to come.

Watch and learn.

American Gigolo (1980)

So groundbreaking was the on-screen work of Giorgio Armani that the most appealing part of the lifestyle enjoyed by Richard Gere’s louche lothario wasn’t getting paid to have sex with attractive women.

The then little-known Italian designer turned a whole generation of men onto softer tailoring and made them want to store their shirts and ties neatly folded in drawers. Legend has it that Gere’s endorsement was so good for business that he can still to this day walk into any Armani and take what he wants. Unlike Winona Ryder in Saks.

North By Northwest (1959)

Part of the joke of Hitchcock’s classic case of mistaken identity is that Cary Grant’s hapless ad man endures a succession of increasingly absurd ordeals all while wearing the soberest of suits.

According to men’s style lore, the subtly checked mid-grey two-piece was made by Grant’s personal tailor – Savile Row’s Kilgour, French & Stanbury (now Kilgour) – but during the film the label of Beverly Hills’ Quintino is clearly visible; one possible explanation is that the latter reproduced some or all of the 16 versions supposedly used.

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

Along with Bullitt, this film immortalized Steve McQueen’s steez to the extent that we’re contractually obliged to namecheck him every second sentence.