Lady Gaga’s song Hold My Hand from Top Gun Maverick was nominated for an Oscar, but she will not be performing at the Academy Awards even though she will be attending on Sunday.
Oscars executive producer and showrunner Glenn Weiss explained to 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…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.”
The actress has been busy filming Joker: Folie à Deux, and because of that does not have the time to prepare for a proper performance.
While she will not be singing, we will hear performances by Rihanna, Sofia Carson and Diane Warren, Stephanie Hsu, David Byrne and Son Lux, and Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava.
