Five-time Academy Award nominee Lady Gaga announced that she will not be performing at the 2023 Oscars during a Zoom call with entertainment journalists on Wednesday (March 8). Executive Producer and Showrunner Glenn Weiss said that Gaga was too busy filming her upcoming movie Joker: Folie a Deux to give the performance the necessary time and commitment.

Gaga has starred in a series of critically acclaimed roles, including winning two Oscar nomations for Best Actress and Best Original Song for her role in A Star Is Born. She has performed on the Oscar stage before, most memorably in 2015 with a medley of four songs from The Sound of Music that concluded with a hug from Julie Andrews. A Star is Born’s duet “Shallow” with Bradley Cooper in 2019 and “Til It Happen to You” from The Hunting Ground in 2016 also earned Gaga r