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Lady Gaga will likely take on her first supporting actress Oscar run for “Joker: Folie à Deux.” But how far can “Mother Monster” take a movie with such abysmal reviews?

“Joker: Folie à Deux” picks up with Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), institutionalized at Arkham Asylum, awaiting trial for his violent crimes. As he grapples with his fractured identity, Arthur finds love with fellow inmate Lee (Gaga) and begins embracing the music that has always played inside his chaotic mind.

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Lady Gaga — “Joker: Folie à Deux”

For those who haven’t seen it, this is not a case of “category fraud.” Gaga’s role is surprisingly limited. While she brings her formidable presence to the screen, her character takes a backseat to Fleck’s internal turmoil, often serving as a musical...

How difficult is it to write a convincing hit record for a film or TV show? Just take one look at the Harry Connick Jr rom-com Find Me Falling, streaming on Netflix…

There are all kinds of elements that, even in the best-written or best-directed films or TV shows, can pull the viewer out of the moment: it might be an off-key performance, an unconvincing prop or a special effect that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. One thing that can be particularly difficult for filmmakers to get right, though, is to write a song that, in the movie or show’s fictional world at least, is a much-loved, multi-platinum hit.

This brings us to Find Me Falling, a romantic comedy by writer-director Stelana Kliris that appeared on Netflix on the 19th July. The premise is quite a good one: Harry Connick Jr plays John Allman, a creatively exhausted, middle-aged...

The Joker and Harley Quinn are set to serenade audiences in “Joker: Folie à Deux,” but if, and how many original songs will be included in the film, is a mystery.

Insiders privy to filming and early versions of Todd Phillips’ eagerly awaited sequel to “Joker” tell Variety the movie leans heavily towards being “mostly a jukebox musical,” as it integrates at least 15 reinterpretations of “very well-known” songs. One is said to be “That’s Entertainment” from the 1953 musical “The Band Wagon,” famously associated with Judy Garland. However, there is a door open for an original song (or two) to be added to the final version. Details regarding who would pen the tracks, or sing the numbers are unknown. We do know, according to sources, Hildur Guðnadóttir, the Oscar-winning composer of the first “Joker” film, is said to “infuse her distinctive, haunting [music] cues” into each number. Warner Bros declined to comment.

The songs in the running for the 2024 Best Original Song Oscar are “It Never Went Away” (“American Symphony”), “I’m Just Ken” (“Barbie”), “What Was I Made For?” (“Barbie”), “The Fire Inside” (“Flamin’ Hot”), and “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” (“Killers of the Flower Moon”). Our current odds show that “What Was I Made For?” (31/10)) is favored to win, followed in order by “I’m Just Ken” (37/10), “It Never Went Away” (9/2), “The Fire Inside” (9/2), and “Wahzhazhe” (9/2).

This year’s roster of eight individual songwriters includes two pairs of former winners, each of which is associated with a “Barbie” song. Those who prevailed most recently are sibling duo Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, whose bid for “What Was I Made For?” comes two years after they took the gold for the title tune from the “James Bond” movie “No Time to Die” (2022). They are now set to battle “I’m...

In one of the tightest races for best original song at the 2024 Oscars, Billie Eilish, Jon Batiste, Diane Warren, “I’m Just Ken” and surprise contender “Wahzhazhe” from Killers of the Flower Moon have emerged as the nominees for the prestigious songwriting prize.

That means a number of top-notch acts who made the shortlist, including Lenny Kravitz, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Halle Bailey and more, didn’t make the cut.

Eilish, who wrote “What Was I Made For?” with her brother-producer Finneas, is the leading nominee with the Barbie track. The duo won best original song at the 2022 Academy Awards for “No Time to Die” from the James Bond film of the same name. The Greta Gerwig-directed box office hit appears again with Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken,” written by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, the hitmakers who won best original song for “Shallow” from A Star is Born...

In 2019, “A Star is Born” went into the Golden Globes as a heavy favorite to win multiple awards, including Best Drama Picture, Best Drama Actor for Bradley Cooper, and Best Drama Actress for Lady Gaga. However, come Golden Globes night, the film was snubbed in almost every category. “Bohemian Rhapsody” won both Best Drama and Best Drama Actor (for Rami Malek) while Glenn Close won Best Drama Actress for “The Wife.” The only Globe that “A Star is Born” managed to win was Best Original Song for “Shallow”.

Cooper starred in that movie as well as directed, produced, and co-wrote it (with Eric Roth and Will Fetters). He returns to the Globes arena this year with another movie he made as a multi-hyphenate: Netflix’s “Maestro.” This one is also a drama about music as it depicts the marriage between composer Leonard Bernstein (Cooper) and Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan).

Again,...

Bradley Cooper‘s “Maestro” features one of the best cinematic sequences this year as Cooper, transformed into Leonard Bernstein conducts a Mahler piece in the Ely Cathedral in Cambridge. The story of how this sequence came to be is almost as incredible as the scene itself and the power of Cooper’s performance is matched by the sheer beauty of the score.

This is the perfect example of why the sound in “Maesto” is so good — it helps to tell the story of the film and convey character more than almost any other sound in any other film does this year. Cooper has turned to music before for inspiration as his directing debut, “A Star is Born,” relied heavily on the power of music, too. He mines that power here again, too, in a film that tells the story of Bernstein’s marriage to Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan). While the...

Two of the most joyous cinematic moments of the year came when unlikely characters raised their voices in song. In “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” Jack Black brought the house down as Bowser with his plaintive plea to “Peaches.” And Ryan Gosling stole the show in “Barbie” with his declaration of independence, “I’m Just Ken.” Sure, both tones hit our collective funny bones but they also get to our hearts.

“Peaches” is a power ballad sung by Bowser at the piano in his lair. He confesses his love for Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) and reveals the motives behind his villainous activity — “everything I do, I do it for you” vibes. He is desperate to win the Princess’ hand in marriage because he loves her. Black’s voice is perfect for the song as his passion increases into a mad crescendo. It’s easily the best and most memorable part of the movie.

“Maestro” is Bradley Cooper‘s second film as a director and the actor-turned-filmmaker has again turned to music for the source of his drama. While his debut outing was a new version of “A Star is Born,” “Maestro” is a biopic chronicling the story of famed composer Leonard Bernstein‘s marriage to Felicia Montealegre.

Cooper directs, produces, co-writes with Josh Singer, and delivers a transformative performance as Bernstein opposite Carey Mulligan as Felicia. We predict that the film will do well at the Oscars with nominations for: Best Picture, Best Actor for Cooper, Best Actress for Mulligan, Best Original Screenplay, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Sound. It’s that Best Sound nomination that we’re focusing on here.

Our current predicted nominees in this category are “Oppenehimer,” “Maestro,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “The Color Purple,” and “Barbie.” “Oppenheimer” is predicted to win but “Maestro” could have an upper...

Jason Sudeikis reunited with his Ted Lasso co-star Hannah Waddingham over the weekend for a memorable rendition of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s duet, “Shallow.”

Taking the stage with Wille Forte on Saturday, Sudeikis’ announced the surprise performance during his annual Thundergong! charity show in Kansas City, Missouri. “There is nobody I would rather sing this song with,” Sudeikis said to his former Saturday Night Live colleague, before Waddingham took over to sing the song’s second verse as Forte was unceremoniously ushered off-stage.

According to Kmbc, Thundergong! raised over $800,000 for Steps of Faith,...

Lady Gaga joined U2 during their performance at the Sphere in Las Vegas last night for a rendition of “Shallow,” her song from A Star Is Born. The singer took the stage with the band clad in a leather jacket and sunglasses for a surprisingly energetic version of the emotive song where she shared vocals with Bono.

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One of the biggest surprises and most joyous moments of “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” was when Jack Black‘s villainous Bowser took to the piano and roared out the power ballad “Peaches.” The song was the funniest ballad we’d ever seen…. until “Barbie” came out.” That movie featured Ryan Gosling‘s Ken singing the tune “I’m Just Ken,” backed up by a bunch of other Kens including Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, and Kingsley Ben-Adir.

It’s strange, curious, and fantastic that two films have been released this year that feature hilarious ballads as key moments in their films for their story’s villains. As such, we expect both songs to compete for Best Original Song this year purely for their sheer popularity. Our odds chart for this category isn’t yet up, however. For now, we’re just focusing on the chances of these two songs only.

Lady Gaga made a special appearance at the Oscars, where she performed her powerful ballad “Hold My Hand” on Sunday.

“It’s deeply personal for me. We all need each other, we need a lot of love to walk through this life. We need heroes sometimes. There’s heroes all around us,” Gaga told the audience before slipping into the song. “You might find that you can be your own hero even if you feel broken inside.”

Joined by a full backing band, the singer opted to ditch the glamour...

Lady Gaga appeared on the Academy Awards stage Sunday night to deliver a surprise performance of “Hold My Hand,” the Oscar-nominated song from “Top Gun: Maverick” — and the only thing more startling than that it happened at all, after earlier denials, was just how stripped-down, yet enormously effective, her reading of the song was.

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Gaga had originally been expected to skip the show due to the filming demands of the sequel “Joker: Folie à Deux,” but, in a speedy change of plans, the star was confirmed to be performing by Variety sources early Sunday morning.

Befitting the last-minute nature of the performance, Gaga was more dressed-down than she’s ever been in a television performance, belting out her ballad in a T-shirt, shorts and with little...

Los Angeles, March 13 (Ians) Singer-actress Lady Gaga is expected to make a surprise appearance at the Oscars to perform “Hold My Hand”, the Oscar-nominated song from “Top Gun: Maverick”, according to several insiders who spoke to ‘Variety’ on condition of anonymity.

The decision seemed to be a last-minute back-and-forth effort as Gaga was initially reported to be skipping the awards show due to demands on filming “Joker: Folie A Deux”.

Oscars executive producer and showrunner Glenn Weiss first stated that Gaga would not be performing during a creative team press conference on March 8, reports Variety.

“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 honouring 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...

Lady Gaga is expected to make a surprise appearance at the Oscars on Sunday night to perform “Hold My Hand,” the Oscar-nominated song from “Top Gun: Maverick,” according to several insiders who spoke to Variety on the condition of anonymity.

The decision seemed to be a last-minute back-and-forth effort as Gaga was initially reported to be skipping the awards show due to demands on filming “Joker: Folie à Deux.” Oscars executive producer and showrunner Glenn Weiss first stated that Gaga would not be performing during a creative team press conference on March 8.

“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...

After blowing everyone away at the Super Bowl halftime show, Rihanna will perform “Lift Me Up” at the 95th Oscars, executive producers and showrunners Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner announced on Thursday.

The “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” ballad is the superstar’s first Best Original Song nomination. She shares a writing credit with director Ryan Coogler, composer Ludwig Göransson and Nigerian singer Tems.

The Grammy-winning artist’s performance comes weeks after her Super Bowl halftime show, her first time on stage in more than four years, during which she surprise-announced her pregnancy.

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Lady Gaga is back in the Oscar race for “Hold My Hand,” a power ballad featured on the year’s biggest blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick.” In addition to performing the track, the versatile entertainer co-wrote it with Michael Tucker, professionally known as BloodPop. An Academy Award nomination for Best Song would mark Gaga’s fourth bid. She was nominated in this category in 2016 for “Til’ It Happens to You” with Diane Warren (“The Hunting Ground”). Three years later she won the statuette for her song “Shallow” from “A Star is Born,” sharing the prize with Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt. The singer earned an additional Best Actress bid that year for her starring role opposite Bradley Cooper.

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The orchestra is tuning up.

Netflix has released five images from the set of “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s forthcoming biopic of the late composer/conductor/educator/raconteur Leonard Bernstein, out in 2023. And even though no one’s heard even one note, the “bravo!”s are in, at least as the makeup and costuming is concerned.

The first of the three images show Bernstein as a younger man, with Carey Mulligan as Felicia Montealgre, a stage and television actress who married Bernstein in 1951. The second picture is probably shot on location at the Koussevitzky Music Shed at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts. (The production did go up there for a time.)

The fourth and fifth pictures are the real stunners from a transformation perspective. Bernstein is shown “at work” (e.g. conducting and agonizing over his art) later in life. You’ll note there is a deep red jacket slung over a chair.

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New Lady Gaga music has arrived, but no, it's not a new album. On May 3, the multihyphenate released a new song, "Hold My Hand," which she wrote and recorded for the upcoming film "Top Gun: Maverick." Gaga shared the song's music video, which stars herself and "Top Gun" star Tom Cruise, on May 6.

Gaga first announced the track on social media on April 27, tweeting, "When I wrote this song for Top Gun: Maverick, I didn't even realize the multiple layers it spanned across the film's heart, my own psyche, and the nature of the world we've been living in. I've been working on it for years, perfecting it, trying to make it ours. I wanted to make music into a song where we share our deep need to both be understood and try to understand each other - a longing to be close when we...

Lady Gaga has released “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick.” The song features in the film opening May 27, and already looks like it could catapult the star into the Oscar conversation.

Listen to the song here.

“Hold My Hand,” is a soaring rock tune with violins and guitar licks that harken back to the power ballads of the ’80s. The song, which plays over the end credits, has already stirred buzz as a possible best original song contender for Gaga following the film’s CinemaCon screening in Las Vegas. The song is produced by Gaga and BloodPop, with additional production by Benjamin Rice.

Leading up to the release, Gaga teased lyrics, “Hold my hand everything will be ok, I heard from the heavens that clouds have been grey.” She called the song a “love letter to the world.” In a longer Instagram post, Gaga shared, “I didn’t even...

Lady Gaga has announced the new song from “Top Gun: Maverick” “Hold My Hand.” The song written by Gaga, features in the film opening May 27 and will be released on May 3.

In the highly-anticipated film, Tom Cruise returns as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a courageous test pilot who dodges the advancement in rank that would ground him. He finds himself training a detachment of Topgun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose.”

Gaga’s soaring ballad comes after Cruise was first spotted at her Las Vegas show, Enigma in December 2019. “Hold My Hand” was written for the motion picture and is featured throughout the film. The single was produced by Gaga and BloodPop, with additional production by Benjamin Rice.

In another blow to mass-appealing movies at the Oscars, Academy voters decided to deplete MGM/Uar’s Ridley Scott-directed House of Gucci of all but one nomination, that being for Makeup and Hairstyling.

While adults have been sluggish to return to theaters during the pandemic, House of Gucci broke through, launching over Thanksgiving with a five-day domestic debut of $22M and grossing $53.5M stateside to date and $151.8M global. It has been by far the highest-grossing U.S. drama during the pandemic.

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The copyright bonanza in the music business continues. On Monday morning, Concord Music Publishing announced the purchase of Downtown Music Holdings’ entire portfolio of 145,000 owned and co-published music copyrights.

Here are just some of the stars with songs included in the deal: Adele, Aretha Franklin, Beyoncé, Blake Shelton, Bruno Mars, Carrie Underwood, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, the Grateful Dead, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Maroon 5, Marvin Gaye, Mary J. Blige, Mos Def, Mötley Crüe, New Order, Rage Against the Machine, Ray Charles, Santigold, Sam Smith, Stevie Wonder, and The 1975.

To be clear,...

Prolific composer Diane Warren has written nine number one songs and had 32 tunes hit the Top Ten on the Billboard Charts. She has won a Grammy, an Emmy, a Golden Globe and three consecutive Billboard Music Awards for Songwriter of the Year. She’s also be named ASCAP’s Writer of the Year three times and was inducted into the Songwriter Hall of Fame in 2001. But one honor that has eluded her is the Academy Award. Though she hasn’t reach Susan Lucci territory (she finally won an Emmy for “All My Children” on her 19th nomination) Warren has been a bridesmaid at the Oscars 11 times.

But she may well win this year for her wistful ballad “Io Si (Seen)” from the Italian-language Netflix drama “The Life Ahead,” which begins streaming Nov. 13. Laura Pausini, who recorded the song, co-wrote the Italian lyrics with Niccolo Agliardi.

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Producer and songwriter Mark Ronson is selling a stake in his extensive catalog to song acquisition investment company Hipgnosis Songs Fund, Hipgnosis announced on Thursday.

This continues the increasingly attention-drawing buying spree for Hipgnosis founder and CEO Merck Mercuriadis, who made his career managing the likes of Beyoncé, Elton John and Guns N’ Roses. At the end of March, Mercuriadis and co. announced the acquisition of Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora’s song catalog, and earlier in 2020, Hipgnosis bought out a catalog from Blink 182 co-founder Tom DeLonge. While the global...

She's just trying to keep it real!  Lady Gaga has had a pretty epic few years. Her career making turn in the Bradley Cooper directed film A Star Is Born won her an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Shallow" alongside her co-writers Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt. In the new year, she may have a few new original songs up her sleeve, and to make a new album happen it seems like she's had to give up her personal hygiene.  "My assistant: when's the last time you bathed," Lady Gaga tweeted to her followers. "Me: i don't remember." The singer also added the hashtag LG6, signaling what many are hoping will be her sixth studio album....

The shortlists for the 92nd Academy Awards were announced last night, including the categories of Best Original Song and Best Original Score.

Beyoncé’s “Spirit” from The Lion King, Thom Yorke’s “Daily Battles” from Motherless Brooklyn, Pharrell Williams and Clad Hugo’s “Letter to My Godfather” from The Black Grandfather, Idina Menzel’s “Into the Unknown” from Frozen 2, Elton John and Tim Rice’s “Never Too Late” from The Lion King, Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from Rocketman, Cynthia Erivo’s “Stand Up” from Harriet,...

Nicholas Britell won Film Composer of the Year for his Oscar-nominated score for If Beale Street Could Talk at the World Soundtrack Awards, the annual event that honors the year’s best in film and TV music. The ceremony for the 19th edition of the honors was Friday on the sidelines of the Ghent Film Festival in Belgium.

Other winners include Lady Gaga’s “Shallow” from A Star Is Born, which won the Original Song Oscar earlier this year. It written by Lady Gaga, Andrew Wyatt, Anthony Rossomando and Mark Ronson. Michael Abels, who wrote the score for Jordan Peele’s Us after collaborating on Get Out, was named Discovery of the Year.

In TV, Hildur Guðnadóttir was named Best Television Composer for the score of HBO’s Chernobyl. Her recent credits include Warner Bros’ Joker, and she was a Discovery nominee last year for Sicario: Day of the Soldado.

After almost a year on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper‘s duet “Shallow” has fallen off as of the chart dated August 24. But it leaves behind a historic legacy: it spent longer on the Hot 100 than any other Oscar winner for Best Original Song.

Overall, “Shallow” clocked 45 weeks on the Hot 100 since its debut last September in advance of the theatrical release of “A Star is Born,” the movie in which the song is featured. That went far beyond the previous record of 33 weeks set by Idina Menzel‘s “Frozen” anthem “Let it Go,” which peaked at number-five. Written by Gaga, Andrew Wyatt, Anthony Rossomando and Mark Ronson, “Shallow” reached the top-10 right after the film opened, and stuck around throughout the awards season as it won a Golden Globe, a Critics’ Choice Award, two Grammys and finally an Oscar.

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Lady Gaga, Post Malone and Kris Bowers are among the contenders for the 2019 World Soundtrack Awards.

Other composers nominated for awards include Nicholas Britell (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), Alan Silvestri (“Avengers: Endgame”) and John Powell (“How to Train Your Dragon: Hidden World”) as well as Daniel Pemberton (“Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse”) and Benjamin Wallfisch (“Hellboy”). Bowers is in the running for TV Composer of the Year for his latest work on Ava Duvernay’s “When They See Us” which earned the composer his first Emmy nomination. Other works of Bowers recognized include “Black Monday,” “For The People,” and “Warriors of Liberty City.”

Along with Grammy award-winning song “Shallow,” Post Malone’s “Sunflower,”which appears on the soundtrack for “Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse,” is nominated for best original song written for a film.

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Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s onscreen chemistry continues to be felt on the official soundtrack to “A Star is Born,” which just surpassed 6 million albums sold globally and has been certified double platinum in the U.S.

Released by Interscope Records in 2018, the album debuted atop the charts and remains the highest-selling album of 2019 to date.

The score to the film, which tells the tumultuous love story between Gaga’s Ally and Cooper’s Jackson as they pursue a musical career in the spotlight, was met with critical acclaim since its release. The soundtrack’s lead single “Shallow,” written by Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt, earned a 2019 Academy Award for Original Song, two Grammys for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Song Written for Visual Media, and a Golden Globe for Best Original Song.

Four other songs also made it onto Billboard’s Hot 100, including “I’ll Never Love Again,...

Warner Bros. has set a one-week release of “A Star Is Born” with almost 12 minutes of additional footage, including extended musical performances, on 1,150 screens in North America.

The film won the Academy Award for best original song for “Shallow” for Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt. The “special encore engagement,” which will begin Friday, will include never-before-seen footage and extended performances of the opener “Black Eyes”; “Alibi”; and Lady Gaga’s Ally in her impromptu a cappella performance of “Shallow.”

Bradley Cooper and Gaga performed “Shallow” during Sunday’s Oscar ceremonies. The additional footage will also include footage of Ally singing “Is That Alright?” to Jackson Maine in the wedding sequence; Jack in his studio singing “Too Far Gone”; and Jack and Ally writing a new song together, entitled “Clover.”

The Academy Award for “Shallow” was the only one that the romance-drama scored on Sunday out of its eight nominations,...

Following its Oscar-winning turn for Lady Gaga’s Best Original Song “Shallow,” the Bradley Cooper-directed film “A Star is Born” is returning to theaters for one week starting on March 1.

But the new “encore” version that Warner Bros. is releasing will feature 12 additional minutes of footage, including extended takes of songs and one entirely new song not previously heard in the film or on the soundtrack album.

The encore version of “A Star is Born” now kicks off with the full performance of “Black Eyes,” the rock/country jam as performed by Bradley Cooper and written by Lukas Nelson that opens the film. It also has the full version of another Cooper and Nelson collaboration, “Alibi,” which is performed just before Gaga’s Ally first takes the stage with Cooper.

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Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga earned some of the biggest buzz at the Oscars for their powerhouse live performance of “Shallow,” and it turns out that both performers were the masterminds behind the epic moment. Rob Mills, ABC’s senior VP of alternative series, specials, and late-night programming, tells Variety that Cooper and Gaga began “meticulously” planning their Oscars performance the minute “Shallow” received its Best Original Song nomination on January 22.

“Bradley and Gaga, they really had this idea in their head of how they wanted it to be,” Mills said. “And the producers really worked step-by-step with them to make…what they were envisioning a reality. This was staying true to the spirit of the movie as well. They really wanted to kind of embody everything that the characters in the movie stood for in this three-minute number.”

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Mark Ronson revealed new details about Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga‘s emotional “Shallow” duet at Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony.

During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday, Ronson, 43, talked with host Ellen DeGeneres, sharing that it was Cooper’s idea for the duo to walk onto the stage from their front row seats in the Dolby Theatre audience at the start of the performance.

“I think he had a specific vision. I heard Lady Gaga talking about it, so I think it was his thing,” he said. “That probably might be the only time they...

Lady Gaga is still raving about Bradley Cooper.

One day after the actors took to the Oscars stage to perform “Shallow” from their hit film A Star Is Born (which clinched the award for Best Original Song), Gaga opened up about the remarkable experience with her costar.

“Nothing could be more special than sharing this moment at the Oscars with a true friend and artistic genius,” she wrote on Twitter Monday.

Along with the sweet message, Gaga, 32, shared a photo of the pair sitting at the Steinway piano during their performance.

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The results are in: You really, really liked Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper‘s live performance of “Shallow” at the 2019 Oscars. In fact, a whopping 90% of Oscar viewers who voted in our poll said that the performance of the “A Star Is Born” song was “amazing” and that they were going to “watch it again right now.” Rounding out our poll results, 9% of respondents said it was “okay” while 1% of haters said it was “horrible.” Let us know what You thought of their performance down in the comments section.

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In case you missed it, Gaga and Cooper’s performance began with the dynamic duo sitting in the front row of the Dolby Theatre, then walking hand in hand up to the stage without even an introduction. Cooper sang the first verse directly to Gaga, who then sat...

Lady Gaga is officially halfway to earning an Egot, thanks to Sunday night's Oscars. The singer took home the gold for best original song during the ceremony, gaining recognition for her incredible work on "Shallow" alongside Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt. And that was just the tip of the iceberg for Gaga's sensational night: she also pulled off an incredible performance with Bradley Cooper and gave a truly inspirational speech when she took the stage to accept her award. The love, light, and delirious happiness continued when the group headed backstage. But perhaps the most striking moment of the press room interview was when Ronson described the moment they wrote the award-winning song in question.

Ronson told the press they'd had plenty of Jameson that day, and they were just puttering around and trying to figure out a new song. Gaga was on the piano, naturally, and she was trying out different chords,...

As the age-old saying goes: There could be 100 people in a room and 99 don't believe in you, but all it takes is just one... and that one is Bradley Cooper. His strong faith in Lady Gaga's abilities was obvious at the 2019 Oscars, especially during their intimate performance of "Shallow." But it turns out that the singer didn't have that same confidence in herself that he did. Luckily, her A Star Is Born co-star was by her side to give her the little push she needed.  After accepting the Oscar for Best Song, Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt went backstage to speak to the press all about the lovely experience, where Lady Gaga revealed the...

For the Oscars on Sunday, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper were together again for a much-touted rendition of eventual Original Song winner “Shallow” from Warner Bros’ A Star Is Born.

Along with Green Book‘s Best Picture win, the intimate duet was the most social moment of the night on Facebook and Twitter.

Except for a bling-y pendant necklace, Gaga was understated in a black princess gown and attacked the piano. Cooper was brave enough to start the song solo; he wasn’t pitch-perfect, but the emotion was right in tune. He pantomimed wiping his brow to the crowd when it was all over.

The song later won the Oscar, capping a night of performances that kicked off with Adam Lambert and Queen.

The A Star is Born soundtrack, which features collaborations with the likes of Lukas Nelson (Willie’s son), Jason Isbell and Mark Ronson, hit shelves the same...

Singer-actress Lady Gaga took home her first Oscar in the Best Original Song category for "Shallow" -- the popular track from the hit film, A Star Is Born. The award went to Gaga and co-writers Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt and Anthony Rossomando. In her speech, she thanked her director and co-star Bradley Cooper, for "believing in us".

"Bradley, there's not a single person on the planet that could have sung this song with me but you," said Gaga, who got emotional after the win.

"Thank you for believing in us. And if you are at home and you're sitting on your couch, and you are watching this right now, all I have to say is that this is hard work."

"I've worked hard for a long time, and a it's not about winning. But what it's about is not giving up. If you have a dream, fight for it. There's a discipline for passion,...

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper‘s chemistry is palpable in front of the camera for a very good reason: Their offstage support for each other is unmatched.

Before the actors took to the stage to perform “Shallow” from their hit film A Star Is Born (which clinched the Best Original Song Oscar for Gaga), Cooper had a sweet and encouraging message for his friend and costar.

” ‘One of the hardest things in life is to be brave enough to be yourself. I wish to everyone that is going to that celebration to feel a joy inside of them,’ ” Gaga, 32, recounted...

Backstage during the live ABC telecast of the 91st Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 24, 2019.

The 91st Oscars were awarded at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 24. Green Book took home the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Below is the list of winners.

Performance by an actor in a leading role nominees:

Christian Bale in Vice

Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born

Willem Dafoe in At Eternity’S Gate

Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody – Winner!!

Viggo Mortensen in Green Book

Performance by an actor in a supporting role nominees:

Mahershala Ali in Green Book – Winner!!

Adam Driver in BLACKkKLANSMAN

Sam Elliott in A Star Is Born

Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Sam Rockwell in Vice

Performance by an actress in a leading role nominees:

Yalitza Aparicio in Roma

Glenn Close in The Wife

Olivia Colman in The Favourite – Winner!

Universal’s Green Book won Best Picture tonight at the 91st annual Academy Awards, which were handed out Sunday night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The film’s Mahershala Ali also won Best Supporting Actor, and Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly took the Original Screenplay trophy.

Fox’s Freddie Mercury/Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody ended its awards-season tour with a leading four Academy Awards tonight, led by Best Actor for Rami Malek. It also scored the hardware for Film Editing, Sound Mixing and Sound Design.

Along with Green Book, two other films also went home with three statuettes: Netflix’s Roma and Disney’s Black Panther.

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Here is the full list of winners:

Best Picture...

After a breathtaking performance of “Shallow” with Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga was able to accept the honor of an Academy Award at the 2019 Oscars for the ‘A Star Is Born’ song “Shallow” for ‘Best Original Song.’ The ‘A Star Is Born’ song “Shallow” was written by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt.

This Academy Award marks Gaga’s first ever Academy Award and she was honored, shocked and very emotional during her acceptance of the award. Gaga powered through tears, breathing heavy, and sobbing while she accepted the award with Cooper watching from the front of the crowd. Gaga thanked Cooper saying, “There is not a single person on the planet who could have sung this song with me but you.”

Gaga saying, “If you’re at home sitting on your couch, this is hard work. I’ve worked hard for a long time…it’s not about winning,...

The star of A Star is Born has paid tribute to her co-star and director when picking up the best original song Oscar for ‘Shallow’

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Lady Gaga has won the best original song Oscar for ‘Shallow’, the keynote track from A Star is Born. The widely-predicted victory, which she shared with co-writers Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt and Anthony Rossomando, was the film’s first award of the night.

In her speech, Gaga thanked her director and co-star, Bradley Cooper, for “believing in us”. She added: “There is not a single person on the planet that could sing this song but you.”...

There can be 100 awards in a room and 99 don't belong to you, but all it takes is just one—an Oscar. Lady Gaga graced the stage at the 2019 Oscars on Sunday night to accept the award for Best Original Song for A Star Is Born's "Shallow" alongside her co-writers Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt. When she heard her name called, Gaga burst into tears and gave her co-star and the film's director Bradley Cooper a huge hug. During her emotional speech, the 32-year-old singer thanked her family and Cooper. She praised her sister, who she called her "soulmate" and said that both of her parents were in attendance as...

“Shallow” sweeps!

As predicted, the biggest contender for Best Original Song at the 2019 Oscars is taking home the statuette: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper‘s smash hit duet from A Star Is Born picked up the Academy Award at this year’s ceremony on Sunday.

The Oscar goes to Gaga, along with co-writers Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt.

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“Shallow” — which also won a Grammy and a Golden Globe — was up against fellow nominees “All the Stars” from Black Panther,...

It was sweet justice for Lady Gaga in the Original Song category as her track “Shallow” from Warner Bros.’ A Star Is Born took home the Oscar tonight.

Three years ago after bringing the Dolby Theatre Oscar crowd to its knees with the performance of her Best Song nomination “Til It Happens to You” from the documentary The Hunting Ground, she lost the Academy Award to Sam Smith and James Napier’s “Writing’s on the Wall” from the James Bond pic Spectre. Tonight Gaga (with Bradley Cooper) brought the Dolby crowd to their knees again, this time with a winning end-result.

“I worked hard for a long time, and it’s not about winning, but it’s about not giving up. If you have a dream, fight for it,” Gaga said to those sitting on the couch at home watching. “It’s not how many times you stand up,...