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.
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Jessica Chastain
at the 2018 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala.
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Gal Gadot
at the 2018 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala.
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Octavia Spencer and Allison Janney
at the 2018 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala.
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Saoirse Ronan
at the 2018 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala.
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Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet
at the 2018 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala.
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Reese Witherspoon and Gillian Anderson
at the 18th Annual AFI Awards.
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Emilia Clarke and Timothée Chalamet
at the 18th Annual AFI Awards.
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James Franco and Emilia Clarke
at a pre-Golden Globes bash.
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Gal Gadot
at Variety's Creative Impact Awards at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
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Jessica Chastain
at Variety's Creative Impact Awards at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
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Tiffany Haddish
at the 2017 New York Film Critics Awards.
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Saoirse Ronan
at the 2017 New York Film Critics Awards.
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Greta Gerwig
at the 2017 New York Film Critics Awards.