Lady Gaga Will Not Perform “Hold My Hand” at the Oscars
Lady Gaga won't be taking the stage at this year's Oscars ceremony.
Despite being nominated in the category of Best Original Song for her Top Gun: Maverick track, "Hold My Hand," she will not be performing the powerful ballad at the 95th Academy Awards, which will take place in Los Angeles this Sunday, March 12.
Glenn Weiss, Oscars executive producer and showrunner, confirmed the news during a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, per Variety.
"We invited all five nominees. We have a great relationship with Lady Gaga and her camp. She is in the middle of shooting a movie right now. Here, we are honoring the movie industry and what it takes to make a movie after a bunch of back and forth," Weiss said, according to the outlet. "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."
This year's nomination marks Gaga's fourth Oscar nod. In 2019, she won her first Oscar in the category of Best Original Song for A Star Is Born's "Shallow."
Currently, Gaga is busy filming Joker: Folie à Deux, in which she stars as Harley Quinn opposite Joaquin Phoenix's Joker. (She shared a first look at the highly anticipated film on Valentine's Day.)
The category's other four nominees are confirmed to perform at the ceremony: Rihanna for "Lift Me Up" from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Stephanie Hsu, David Byrne, and Son Lux for "This Is a Life" from Everything Everywhere All at Once; Diane Warren and Sofia Carson for "Applause" from Tell It Like a Woman; and Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava for "Naatu Naatu" from RRR.
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