National Board of Review is the first event of all the Oscar wannabe whatevers. Winners announced back in December, but gala held Tuesday night.

Always at Cipriani. Always chaired by its president Annie Schulhof, whose custom Dior suit cost more than the whole dinner.

Earliest arrival, Jesse Eisenberg, whose movie “A Real Pain” — now in theaters — he wrote, directed and stars in. The moving memory story is a trip back to Poland to see where his grandma once lived. “Took me 14 years to write this. I’m spending the 15th year........

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