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Lady Gagawill be attending this year’sAcademy Awardsafter all.
Thoughshe did not receive a nominationin the Best Actress category for herHouse of Gucciperformance despite earning nods at every major awards show leading up tothe Oscars, Gaga was named as a presenter for this year’s ceremony.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciencesannouncedthe first batch of presenters on Thursday, which also includes Zoë Kravitz, Chris Rock, Kevin Costner, Rosie Perez and Yuh-Jung Youn, theMinaristar who won Best Supporting Actress last year.
Gaga’s absence from this year’snominationsmarked a big surprise given her precursor nominations at the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards and BAFTA Awards. As a film,House of Guccireceived one Oscar nomination, for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
The performer is an Oscar winner for the song “Shallow” from 2018’sA Star Is Born, and was nominated three times total, including for Best Actress in the same film.
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This year’s Best Actress nominees are Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye), Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter), Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers), Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos) and Kristen Stewart (Spencer). Kidman is going into the Oscars with a Golden Globe win this awards season, while Chastainwon the recent SAG Awards race.
Gaga celebrated theHouse of Guccihair and makeup team — Göran Lundström, AnnaCarin Lock and Frederic Aspiras — for their nomination andcongratulated all the nomineeson Instagram last month.
“To all the nominees this year, congratulations on all your hard work, dedication, your nomination and YOUR magic — you all deserve major recognition for what was a truly beautiful landscape of performances and accomplishments this past year,” she wrote. “Your dedication during Covid, your huge hearts, and your ability to tell amazing stories is a gift to the whole world during what is for many a very hard time. Congratulations my friends. Bravo!”
The 94th annual Academy Awards will air live on ABC Sunday, March 27, at 8 p.m. ET.
source: people.com
