In any case, Lady Gaga will perform her Oscar-nominated song at the awards show.
Just days after the Oscars, producer Glenn Weiss said Gaga wouldn’t be performing at the ceremony, a source near the production confirmed by the Associated Press that he’ll actually sing “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick”.
Gaga’s addition means all of this 12 months’s nominees for Best Original Song will perform at the Oscars.
Other nominees appearing this 12 months include Rihanna (Lift Me Up), Sofia Carson and Diane Warren (Applause), Stephanie Hsu, David Byrne and Son Lux (This Is a Life), and Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava (“Naatu Naatu”).
It was previously reported that the “Poker Face” singer needed to turn down a suggestion to perform as a consequence of scheduling conflicts, Weiss confirmed Wednesday at the Academy Awards Creative Team press conference.
“We invited all five nominees. Now we have an amazing relationship with Lady Gaga and her camp. He’s in the strategy of filming straight away. Here we honor the film industry and what it takes to make a movie after a number of forwards and backwards… It didn’t feel like she could perform to the level we’re used to along with her and that she’s ever been,” Weiss said.
“So he isn’t going to be on the show, but from our standpoint, it’s someone making a movie, and we totally understand that is a priority on this business, especially once we’re honoring movies,” Weiss continued.
Gaga is currently filming the upcoming sequel to the Joker musical, Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and starring Harley Quinn.
Gaga is the first artist to receive three Best Original Song nominations for “Holy My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick”, “Til It Happens to You” from “The Hunting Ground” in 2016 and “Shallow” from ” The Hunting Ground” in 2016. “A star is born” in 2019.