Inside Hollywood’s hottest pre-Oscars parties: Taylor Swift dances night away


 Teylor Swift performed "Night Away Dance" at CAA's pre-Oscars party on Friday night while Tiffany Haddish and Donald Glover had a freestyle rap fight and sang karaoke tunes backed by a live band.

Guests Leonardo DiCaprio, Hailey Bieber, Elon Musk, Sacha Baron Cohen, Al Pacino and Chris Pine also attended the power agency's party at the exclusive San Vicente bungalows.

Sources told Page Six that Swift parted ways with boyfriend Joe Alwyn, as well as Andrew Garfield and Zoe Kravitz.

Haddish — who wore short blond hair, a glamorous black gown and sparkling diamond necklace — enthralled the crowd at the venue's theater with a theatrical rendition of Tina Turner's "Proud Mary."

Glover also sang the tunes before two stars were injured in a freestyle rap battle.


The “Atlanta” star – aka rapper Childish Gambino – hit Haddish with the lines, “And I just don’t care/She’s on stage with the white blond hair,” to which quick-witted comedian Haddish fired back, “And I ain’t got no motherf–kin’ underwear!” according to a clip posted to social media.

Said a source: “Tiffany Haddish and Donald Glover had the theater packed performing karaoke to a live band.”



Also spotted at the CAA party, we hear, were J.J. Abrams, Denis Villeneuve, “Squid Game” star HoYeon Jung, Regé-Jean Page, Trevor Noah, Taika Waititi, Rita Ora, Winnie Harlow, Ron Howard, Gayle King, Savannah Guthrie, Sebastian Stan, Simu Liu, Zooey Deschanel, Jonathan Scott and more.



Meanwhile, Hollywood agency WME opted for a smaller affair this year - an intimate dinner with a few tables at Craig's on Friday nights for the agency's nominees.

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kristen Stewart, Javier Bardem and “King Richard” director Reynaldo Marcus Green each presided over a table behind the celebrity hot spot, sources said.

Well-wishers included Warner Bros. studio boss Toby Emmerich, James Bond franchise producer Barbara Broccoli, "Don't Look Up" producer Kevin Messick, actress-producer Colleen Camp and WME partner Alice Scherz (who represents Gyllenhaal, Stewart and Bardem).

Detectives said each table had Polaroid cameras for guests to take funny pictures.

WME previously said it was abandoning its annual plans for a big Academy Award, and announced it would donate $1 million to UNICEF to support families in Ukraine.

Saint Laurent and its creative director Anthony Vaccarello hosted the brand's first pre-Oscars party this year, bringing a high-fashion crowd with a private dinner at the Los Angeles home of screenwriter Mitch Glazer and "Charlie's Angels" star Kelly Lynch. It was, the detectives said.

Guests included Zendaya, Pedro Almodovar, Troy Sivan, Andy McDowell, Bill Murray, Dave Franco, Maude Apatow, and Amber Valletta. A large Saint Laurent party then opened up to more guests.



Other fashion brands holding events ahead of the 2022 Oscars included Chanel and Giorgio Armani, who threw a party for Nicole Kidman at their flagship Beverly Hills boutique on Saturday night. Guests included Sophia Loren, Adrien Brody, Karolina Kurkova, Miles Teller and others.

On Thursday night, entertainment executive Charles King's media company Macro hosted its pre-Oscars party at LA's Sophie Stadium, where celebrity DJ D-Nice played tunes. Guests included Kelly Rowland, “Jean-Yuhs” co-directors Clarence “Cuddy” Simmons and Chick Oza, Lena Waithe, “Pose” star Michaela J. Rodriguez and directors Ava DuVernay, plus Nia Long, Karrueche Tran and Essence Atkins.

Macro was behind last year's Oscar-winning film "Judas and the Black Messiah" as well as the 2019 Michael B. Jordan film, "Just Mercy."

Among other pre-Oscars events: Women in Film hosted its annual pre-party for attendees including Rita Moreno and Jane Campion. This year's British nominees were brought together with BAFTA North America and the British Film Commission, with an afternoon tea hosted by Emily Cloak, the British Consul General for LA.

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