Grammy and Oscar winner Lady Gaga has decided she will not perform her Academy Award-nominated best song “Hold My Hand” from the summer film Top Gun: Maverick at Sunday’s 95th Annual Academy Awards.
Gaga has told Academy producers she will attend the ceremony as a nominee since she doesn’t have time to prepare a musical number. The singer says this is due to her busy filming Warner Bros’ DC sequel Joker: Folie à Deux with Joaquin Phoenix.
Gaga’s song is one of the many nominated best songs. The other four songs include “Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman, “Lift Me” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, “Naatu Naatu” from RRR and “This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once, which will all be performed during the show.
In an interview with Deadline Awards columnist Pete Hammond this week, he writes what Oscar cast producer Ricky Kirshner said of Gaga’s potential appearance on the show: “We’ve announced some of the performances, and there are still more announcements to come. So I will say that the ones we’ve announced, very creatively, have taken to make their song very performance-based and very visual. Obviously, as you can imagine, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Very visual. David Byrne [who co-wrote and performed that film’s song “This Is a Life”] had a lot to say about what it’ll look like, so that’ll be cool. So we’re excited about all the performances that we have.”
Before this ceremony, the singer-songwriter performed twice. One for the Diane Warren collaboration “Til It Happens to You” from the documentary The Hunting Ground in 2016 and “Shallow” from the film A Star is Born, which won best song in 2019 at the Oscars.
The 95th Annual Academy Awards will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday, March 12, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. ABC will be airing the show live.
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