Lady Gaga won’t perform her Oscar-nominated song from Top Gun: Maverick at the awards night

Global singer Lady Gaga, who is nominated for her Top Gun: Maverick song ‘Hold My Hand,’ will not be performing her song at Sunday’s 95th Academy Awards.

According to Deadline, Oscarcast director Glenn Weiss announced today that Gaga will not perform her Best Song nominee from Top Gun: Maverick at the Oscars as she won’t have time to prepare a musical number amid her shooting schedule for Warner Bros’ DC sequel Joker: Folie à Deux.

“We’ve announced some of the performances, and there are still more announcements to come,” Oscarcast producer Ricky Kirshner shared. “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 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,” he added. Gaga’s hit song is up against four other tunes for the Best Original Song category including 'Applause' from Tell It like a Woman, 'Lift Me Up' from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, 'Naatu Naatu' from RRR and 'This Is a Life' from Everything Everywhere All at Once; all of which would be performed during the show.

Had Lady Gaga been able to perform, this would have been her third time performing at the Oscars. She previously sang 'Til It Happens to You' from The Hunting Ground in 2016 and later on 'Shallow' from A Star Is Born with Bradley Cooper which won the Oscar in 2019.

Speaking of Joker: Folie à Deux, Lady Gaga is set to star opposite Joaquin Phoenix in the upcoming musical sequel to DC's 2019 film Joker. Meanwhile, the 95th Oscars will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

ABC will air the show live coast-to-coast at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT and in more than 200 countries around the world.

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