Oscars 2023: Lady Gaga Sings Stripped-Down Version of 'Hold My Hand' During Last-Minute Performance

Emily Longeretta The “Yellowstone” drama continues. The main cast of the show, along with creator Taylor Sheridan, were expected to attend PaleyFest in Los Angeles on Saturday evening — but unexpectedly didn’t show up. About 30 minutes before the red carpet was supposed to begin at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, press was let in and given a tip sheet with four only cast member names on it: Josh Lucas, Wendy Moniz, Mo Brings Plenty and Dawn Olivieri. Additionally, Paramount Network development president Keith Cox was also attended, but did not speak to press on the carpet. The original list of those who were supposed to be there included Sheridan and executive producer David Glasser, as well as the show’s stars Kevin Costner, Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser, Luke Grimes, Kelsey Asbille, Wes Bentley, Gil Birmingham and Jacki Weaver. Variety was told that the cast could not attend due to scheduling conflicts.

Lady Gaga is sharing a behind-the-scenes look at what went into that stunning Oscars performance on Sunday night.

left her “head and heart on the dance floor” … as well as, apparently, her chapstick.During Lady Gaga’s surprise performance at the 2023 Academy Awards on Sunday, fans took to Twitter not to praise the singer, but to express concern about her chapped lips.Gaga’s 2022 single “Hold My Hand,” featured on the “Top Gun: Maverick” soundtrack, had been nominated for Best Original Song — but as she sang it on stage at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theater, some audiences were more focused on her dry, cracked lips.The singer had stepped out of her glamourous gown for the performance, favoring a dressed-down look in a casual T-shirt and a bare face. Earlier in the evening, she walked the red carpet wearing a bold, red lip — so it’s possible that what some perceived as blood could have been residue from her makeup.

Lady Gaga to the rescue! On the 95th Academy Awards ceremony's champagne carpet, Gaga rushed to help a photographer who fell while walking past her. The moment, which was caught on video and quickly went viral online, shows Gaga spotting the photographer as he trips and stumbles while walking past her. After hearing the gasps of the crowd around them, Gaga turns and runs to check on him. Gaga stops to help photographer who falls over taking pics of her #oscarspic.twitter.com/L1lyOfuCA4Gaga looked stunning at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood for Hollywood's biggest night.

The Oscars brought the star power AND the spectacle when it came to the Best Original Song performances!

This year’s Oscars featured one of the more eclectic nights for musical performances in the recent history of the telecast. Not only did you have the massive A-listers, but there was also a Bollywood song, one of the most decorated songwriters, and David Byrne rounding out the night.

The 95th Academy Awards took place on Sunday night with Everything Everywhere All At Once proving to be the night's biggest winner. The A24 movie took home seven awards in total, including Best Picture alongside acting prizes for cast members Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Lady Gaga has been called a “hero” for checking if a photographer was OK after he fell on the red carpet ahead of the Oscars 2023 awards ceremony.People on social media highlighted Gaga’s caring nature as she stopped making her way inside the Dolby Theater yesterday (March 12) and rushed to help the man to his feet on the carpet, the colour of which was rebranded to beige this year.“Hero,” one person tweeted, while another said: “Notice how she didn’t even think about it, it was in her reflex to help him, she’s just genuinely sweet and kind.”Another person added: “The way people react speaks volumes about who they are at their core.” You can watch the moment below.Lady Gaga stops to help photographer who fell at the #Oscars. pic.twitter.com/4w4MNCO89X— Pop Base (@PopBase) March 13, 2023Gaga was nominated for Best Original Song for her track ‘Hold My Hand’ (Top Gun: Maverick).

Lady Gaga amazed fans when she was seen rushing to help a photographer on the Oscars 2023 red carpet after they tripped over right next to her. The actress was nominated for best song at the Oscars 2023 - hosted by late night chat show host Jimmy Kimmel at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood - for her efforts on the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack, and wore a stunning sheer, long-sleeved black dress with her hair styled back.

It was a ceremony dominated by wins for “Everything Everywhere All At Once” and “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Telecast producers Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner clearly had an idea of what was in store as they slotted the show’s categories to create as much natural drama as possible when, in fact, there turned out to be very few upsets. Still, with the pair booked for three more ceremonies, there was a lot that worked and a lot that didn’t.

Lady Gaga gave a performance that had people talking.

a crisis team in place ready for any potential snafus. It was a stacked year for Best Picture, with the likes of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “Women Talking,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,”  “Tar,” “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “The Fabelmans” and “Elvis” facing off – not to mention, more crowd-pleasing hits such as “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water.” The ceremony was staid, compared to last year’s infamous #SlapGate.

Making an unexpected appearance! Lady Gaga took the stage during the 2023 Oscars on Sunday, March 12, to perform her song “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick.

“Hold My Hand” at this year’s Academy Awards, the pop superstar gave a surprise performance at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday.Although it was expected that Gaga would not be able to perform due to the demands of shooting the “Joker” sequel “Joker: Folie à Deux” with Joaquin Phoenix, apparently she couldn’t resist the chance to take the stage on Hollywood’s starriest night.But during his creative team press conference, just four days ago on Wednesday, Oscars executive producer and showrunner Glenn Weiss was singing a different tune.While making it clear that “we have a great relationship with Lady Gaga and her camp,” Weiss said, “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.

Lady Gaga delivered an emotional performance of ‘Hold My Hand’ from the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack at the Oscars 2023.The annual awards show is taking place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles tonight (March 12), where each of the nominees for Best Original Song is performing.Gaga was not confirmed to perform before the ceremony got underway, although it was reported earlier today that she would appear. Taking to the stage unannounced, the star had changed from the dramatic black gown she sported on the red carpet into a simpler outfit of charcoal grey t-shirt and jeans.“I wrote this song with my friend BloodPop for the film Top Gun: Maverick in my studio basement,” she said, introducing the song from a stool.

Thania Garcia 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.Lady Gaga performs a stripped-down version of "Hold My Hand" at the #Oscars. https://t.co/ndiKiHeOT5 pic.twitter.com/dLlahLTjht 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 apparent in the way of hair or makeup glam. The song got a surprisingly rootsy, rock-band production, as opposed to the far slicker soundtrack version, and was interrupted by whoops and hollers from a clearly captivated audience.

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Michelle Williams is ready for the big night!

with his performance as the King in “Elvis,” and who’s nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars on Sunday.The kid’s on the brink of the big-big-time, right when the industry needs it badly. For more than a decade, Hollywood has searched in vain for worthy successors to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio while trade publications have mourned the death of the old-school Leading Man. Our former heartthrobs can still sell tickets (see: “Top Gun: Maverick”), but they are getting long in the tooth and caring less and less about the state of their beards.While plenty of great young actors are on the rise, there’s no cultural consensus around most of them. Timothée Chalamet, 27, is a major talent and has rapidly become a film fixture, but has so far preferred prestige films (“Dune” is as arthouse as science-fiction gets) by filmmakers such as Luca Guadagnino and Wes Anderson, whose work most Americans don’t know or go out of their way to see.Smiley Eddie Redmayne and Andrew Garfield are quirky if good-looking and respectable Brits (Garfield, who has a British accent, is technically British-American) and already, respectively, 41 and 39.