Oscars 2023: Woman Gaga Will Carry out ‘Maintain My Hand’ From ‘High Gun: Maverick’ After All

In a shock, last-minute flip of occasions, Lady Gaga reportedly might be performing her Oscar-nominated track “Maintain My Hand” on the 2023 Academy Awards on Sunday, March 12!

The singer initially couldn’t make a performance happen as a result of scheduling conflicts with the Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux. However in response to Variety, Gaga and the Oscars producers had been capable of pull collectively a efficiency of the high-flying observe from Top Gun: Maverick within the nick of time. High Gun star and government producer Tom Cruise gained’t be attending the occasion, per Deadline.

In a March 8 assertion, Oscars government producer and showrunner Glenn Weiss mentioned there wasn’t sufficient time to rearrange a efficiency that met Gaga and the Oscars’ high quality requirements.

“She is in the course of capturing a film [Joker: Folie à Deux] proper now,” he instructed Variety. “Right here, we’re honoring the film trade and what it takes to make a film after a bunch of backwards and forwards. It didn’t really feel like she will be able to get a efficiency to the caliber that we’re used to along with her and that she is used to. So, she shouldn’t be going to carry out on the present.”

Now, sources near the printed say issues have modified and the Grammy-winning artist will seem throughout tonight’s ceremony.

The singer/actor beforehand was the one artist out of this yr’s Greatest Unique Music nominees not slated to carry out. She now joins the next checklist of performers: Rihanna, “Carry Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Sofia Carson and Diane Warren, “Applause” from Inform It Like a Girl; Stephanie Hsu, David Byrne, and Son Lux, “This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once; Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava, “Naatu Naatu” from RRR.

Seeing music icons like Rihanna and Woman Gaga performing in the identical evening will certainly be an thrilling sight for his or her avid followers. In a extra poignant second, Lenny Kravitz will tackle the 2023 Oscars “In Memoriam” segment.

Woman Gaga has 4 Oscar nominations and one win below her belt — three for Greatest Unique Music (“Til It Occurs to You,” “Shallow,” and “Maintain My Hand”), and one for performing (A Star is Born). “Shallow” gained Greatest Unique Music in 2019. She and co-star Bradley Cooper carried out the track at that yr’s Oscars, marking the final time Gaga carried out throughout Hollywood’s greatest evening. She carried out “Til It Occurs to You” on the 2016 present.

The 36-year-old star’s final Oscars look was in 2022 when she memorably escorted Liza Minnelli on stage to announce the winner for Greatest Image. Coincidentally, this yr’s Oscars falls on Minnelli’s 77th birthday.

The 2023 Oscars will broadcast stay from Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre beginning at 8/7c on ABC.