The Envelope Please: Rolex Designs 2025 Oscars Greenroom

It’s that time of year again. The 97th annual Academy Awards presentation airing March 2, 2025, has industry insiders and cinephiles abuzz with predictions and personal wishes. While we spectators have plenty of front-of-the-house viewing thanks to TV’s rivaling the sizes of movie screens, there’s a whole other world of behind-the-scenes activity, much of it centered in the famed greenroom, with design helmed since 2016 by equally famed Rolex. It’s where nominees mix, mingle, congratulate, and, well, wait to see who will take home the hefty 8 ½-pound golden statuette standing 13 ½ inches tall. Among them: Adrian Brody, Timothée Chalamet, and Cynthia Erivo, to name a few.

With eco-consciousness and a sense of adventure ingrained in Rolex’s ethos, this year’s theme embraces rewilding. Generally, the term means helping nature heal and giving space back to wildlife on land and at sea. At the Dolby Theatre in the heart of Hollywood, the Rolex design team drew inspiration specifically from the non-profit endeavors of Rewilding Chile, guarding marine life and promoting parks conservation throughout Patagonia, and Rewilding Argentina, protecting and developing eco-systems for rural inhabitants and animal species. Both are offspring of Tompkins Conservation, the legacy of Douglas and Kristine Tompkins, and supported by the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative.

The Oscars greenroom design evokes the call of the wild through an interior landscape composed of an airy tulle scrim and undulating wall lighting suggesting mountainous topography. An elegant wood framework brings in the natural material, while brass cutouts are reminders of the animals inhabiting the wild. Furnishings, most by Paola Lenti, reappear in their well-suited palette of greens and tawny beiges. According to Rolex, sustainability, albeit not necessarily seen, factored into choices of materials in relation to weight and density for shipping and storage.

Oscar himself, as a larger-than-life iteration, stands watch over the entry. Meanwhile, an enviable Rolex watch overlooks the mis en scene and times the ceremony from its pride-of-place frame.

Walk Through The 2025 Oscars Greenroom Awash In Gold