Music
- Oscars 2019: Lady Gaga Takes Home Oscar For Best Original Song For
'A Star Is Born'
The
Oscars went ga-ga for Lady Gaga as the
songstress-turned-actress took home Oscar gold for
co-writing the song “Shallow” for the latest
Hollywood iteration of A Star is Born
Lady
Gaga (nee Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta),
wrote the music and lyric with Mark Ronson,
Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt, who also
received Oscars for their part in writing the
romantic ballad.
Lady
Gaga, who also was up for Best Actress (but lost
to Olivia Colman, The Favourite) plays a
struggling singer-songwriter in the classic
tragic love story opposite Bradley Cooper, who
co-wrote and directed the drama. Lady Gaga
co-wrote “Shallow” with her frequent
collaborator Ronson. The glamorous actress,
dressed in a stunning Alexander McQueen black gown,
previously was nominated in the Song category for
“Til It Happens To You,” (from the 2015
college rape documentary The Hunting Ground,
which she performed live at the 88th Academy
Awards). She co-wrote that with Diane Warren, with
whom she vied in the Best Original Song category
this year.
In
accepting her award, Lady Gaga encouraged
youngsters watching the show to follow their
dreams and stick with it.
"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," she said. "I
have worked hard for a long time and it’s not
about, you know, winning, but what it’s about is
not giving up. If you have a dream, fight for it.
If there’s a discipline for passion, and it’s
not about how many times you get rejected or you
fall down or you’re beaten up. It’s about how
many times you stand up and are brave and you keep
on going."
“Shallow”
earned the Golden Globe Award last month for Best
Original Song as well as two Grammy nominations,
winning the Grammy for Best Song Written for
Visual Media. Lady Gaga has sold more than 27
million albums and 146 million singles, and
regarded as one of the bestselling music artists
in history. She has nine Grammys, a BAFTA Award
and an award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Billboard crowned her Artist of the Year in and
Billboard’s Woman of the Year in 2015.
