“The Great Gatsby” already has an eye on next year’s Oscars. Amid a string of starry screenings last week, the film that was once slated to come out last Dec. 25 played for New York Academy members at Lighthouse International, where guests included Meg Ryan, Debra Winger, Sir Howard Stringer, Edgar Bronfman, Darren Aronofsky, Joel Grey and Neil Simon.
On Sunday, the movie heading to open Cannes next week had a pre-Met Ball screening for a fashion-forward crowd, including Katy Perry (who arrived at MoMA with an entourage on bikes and slipped into a side entrance) and Gwen Stefani, who arrived with Dasha Zhukova as her date, designers Vera Wang, Prabal Gurung and Yigal Azrouel and power players David Geffen and David Koch.
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Stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan walked the red carpet, but dutiful dad Tobey Maguire chose to attend his son’s birthday instead. Anna Wintour hosted a dinner during the screening for the Met Ball committee, which Mulligan and “Gatsby” costume designer Catherine Martin (director Baz Luhrmann’s wife) hit before appearing at a Top of the Standard after-party, where guests included Oliver Stone and Kristen Wiig, who cracked up VIPs while holding court in a back room.
Also at the Peggy Siegal Co. bash, hosted by MAC Cosmetics and Quintessentially Lifestyle, DJ Brendan Fallis showed off unreleased tunes from the “Gatsby” soundtrack, featuring Jay-Z.
Saturday night, DiCaprio hit another pre-Met Ball bash — Harry Josh’s annual Hair Ball at the Jane Hotel. Some guests blanched when his ex, Gisele Bundchen, and her husband, Tom Brady, arrived. A spy said, “Leo was keeping his distance from Gisele, who was with Tom on the opposite side of the room,” and “Tom came all decked out in a white outfit, looking like Gatsby himself!” But Leo was “surrounded on a couch full of models.” The party also drew Karolina Kurkova, Ron Burkle, Hilary Rhoda, Jason Binn, Tony Shafrazi and Vivi Nevo.