In a shock, last-minute flip of occasions, Lady Gaga reportedly will likely be performing her Oscar-nominated track “Hold My Hand” on the 2023 Academy Awards on Sunday, March 12!
The singer initially couldn’t make a efficiency occur as a result of scheduling conflicts with the Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux. But in response to Variety, Gaga and the Oscars producers have been capable of pull collectively a efficiency of the high-flying monitor from Top Gun: Maverick within the nick of time. Top Gun star and government producer Tom Cruise received’t be attending the occasion, per Deadline.
In a March 8 assertion, Oscars government producer and showrunner Glenn Weiss mentioned there wasn’t sufficient time to rearrange a efficiency that met Gaga and the Oscars’ high quality requirements.
“She is in the middle of shooting a movie [Joker: Folie à Deux] right now,” he advised Variety. “Here, we are honoring the movie industry and what it takes to make a movie after a bunch of back and forth. It didn’t feel like she can get a performance to the caliber that we’re used to with her and that she is used to. So, she is not going to perform on the show.”
Now, sources near the printed say issues have modified and the Grammy-winning artist will seem throughout tonight’s ceremony.
The singer/actor beforehand was the one artist out of this 12 months’s Best Original Song nominees not slated to carry out. She now joins the next record of performers: Rihanna, “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Sofia Carson and Diane Warren, “Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman; Stephanie Hsu, David Byrne, and Son Lux, “This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once; Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava, “Naatu Naatu” from RRR.
Seeing music icons like Rihanna and Lady Gaga performing in the identical evening will certainly be an thrilling sight for his or her avid followers. In a extra poignant second, Lenny Kravitz will tackle the 2023 Oscars “In Memoriam” section.
Lady Gaga has 4 Oscar nominations and one win below her belt — three for Best Original Song (“Til It Happens to You,” “Shallow,” and “Hold My Hand”), and one for performing (A Star is Born). “Shallow” received Best Original Song in 2019. She and co-star Bradley Cooper carried out the track at that 12 months’s Oscars, marking the final time Gaga carried out throughout Hollywood’s greatest evening. She carried out “Til It Happens to You” on the 2016 present.
The 36-year-old star’s final Oscars look was in 2022 when she memorably escorted Liza Minnelli on stage to announce the winner for Best Picture. Coincidentally, this 12 months’s Oscars falls on Minnelli’s 77th birthday.
The 2023 Oscars will broadcast dwell from Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre beginning at 8/7c on ABC.
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