Lady Gaga will finally perform at the 2023 Oscars

Lady Gaga soars to the top with 2022's Top Gun: Maverick theme song, and "Hold My Hand" earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. Given her history at the Oscars, which includes several stellar performances and touching moments alongside Liza Minnelli, fans are wondering what Gaga will bring to this year's ceremony. Lady Gaga will reportedly perform at the 2023 Oscars after all, just days after Oscar showrunner and showrunner Glenn Weiss announced that she would be filming "Joker: Pas de Deux." She can't act, in which she stars alongside Joaquin Phoenix in his Oscar-winning role. clown.

Several unnamed "insiders" revealed to Variety that Gaga will now perform "Hold My Hand." The Academy has yet to officially confirm the reports, but Gaga did walk the Oscars red carpet with her co-nominee and collaborator BloodPop, possibly signaling that her last-minute performance is over.

BloodPop and Lady Gaga attend the 2023 Oscars. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Weiss initially announced during a press conference on March 8 that Gaga was unable to put together a performance to her standards while focusing on her Folie à Deux performance. "We invited all five nominees," Weiss explained to Variety . "We have a great relationship with Lady Gaga and her camp. She's working on a movie right now. Here we are paying homage to the film industry and what it takes to make a movie after a lot of back and forth... it feels like she The performance wasn’t up to the level we were used to, and she was used to it.”

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After the nominations were announced on January 24, Gaga took to Instagram to celebrate her fourth Oscar win and thank the Academy for recognizing her. "Writing this song for the movie Top Gun: Maverick was a profound and powerful experience that I will never forget," she wrote. “So grateful for the magic of music and movies. Love you, my co-writer @bloodpop, and I’m on set filming right now with lots of love for little monsters!”

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Regardless of her attendance, Gaga's track record alone gives her a good chance of winning. In 2016, she was nominated for her first Best Original Song alongside 14-time nominee Diane Warren for "Till It Happens to You" from "The Hunting Ground." In 2019, she won the Best Actress Award for "Shallow" in "A Star Is Born." She was also nominated for Best Actress for her role as Elle in A Star Is Born . Many fans believe this should be her fifth Oscar nomination because, despite being nominated for a Golden Globe, Critics' Choice Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and BAFTA Award for Best Actress, she won the 2022 Oscar nomination. Years were snubbed for her role in "House of Gucci."

In best original song, Gaga and Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ,” David Byrne and Mitski’s “This Is a Life” from “ Everywhere All At Once ,” "Applause" from "Tell It Like," Warren's 14th nomination, is up for grabs. a Woman and "Naatu Naatu" from RRR , who beat out Gaga and RiRi at the 2023 Golden Globes. With Gaga's name being added to the list, all five Best Original Song nominees will now perform their nominated songs at the Oscars.