Star-Studded: The Best Parties This Week

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New England may be quite literally freezing, but that's no matter to Hollywood, whose main characters kicked off the New Year with awards season on their minds. Salma Hayek Pinault, Mary J. Blige, Jessica Chastain, Gal Gadot, and Saoirse Ronan all headed west for the Palm Springs International Film Festival where they participated in day-time screenings and later, fancy evening galas.

Nominees remained in L.A. for pre-Golden Globes bashes, and the shiny trophies began to be distributed at the AFI Awards, where Reese Witherspoon joined Gillian Anderson, Emilia Clarke, and 2018's likely breakthrough actor: Call Me By Your Name's Timothée Chalamet.

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In New York, a certain set of actresses managed not to get frost bite for the New York Film Critics Awards. Tiffany Haddish, in fact, even opted to show some leg with a high-slit dress. Bold.

Scroll down for the best parties of the week.