KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 — Her fans, aka little monsters, will be disappointed that singer Lady Gaga will not be performing at the 2023 Oscars this Sunday, after all.
After weeks of speculation, Oscars producer Glenn Weiss confirmed yesterday (March 9) at a press conference that Gaga will not perform her Best Song nominee Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick at the 95th annual Academy Awards.
However, pop superstar Rihanna is set to perform her Academy Award-nominated Black Panther: Wakanda Forever hit Lift Me Up.
But Gaga will still attend the ceremony as a nominee.
Weiss explained that she won’t have time to prepare a musical number as she’s shooting the Warner Bros’ DC sequel Joker: Folie à Deux with Joaquin Phoenix.
The other four tunes up for the Best Original Song are Applause (from Tell It like a Woman), Lift Me Up (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Naatu Naatu (RRR) and This Is a Life (Everything Everywhere All at Once).
All four will be performed during the show.
Prior to the announcement made by Weiss, fellow Oscars producer Ricky Kirshner told Deadline: “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.”
Gaga has performed at the Oscars twice before, for the Diane Warren collaboration Til It Happens to You from the documentary The Hunting Ground in 2016 and for Shallow from A Star Is Born, which won the Oscar in 2019.
She also was featured in a 2015 Oscars tribute to The Sound of Music and appeared last year aiding actress Liza Minnelli in presenting the Best Picture prize to CODA.
Jimmy Kimmel is hosting the 95th Annual Academy Awards, which will be handed out on March 12 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
