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Lady Gaga’s Oscars 2019 Acceptance Speech for “Shallow”

Lady Gaga's Priceless 128.54 Carat "Tiffany Diamond" Necklace

Lady Gaga's powder blue look at the 2019 Golden Globes may have unwittingly channeled Judy Garland (not to mention, spurned a meme in the process), but at the 2019 Oscars, the Best Actress nominee is taking inspiration from another legend of the silver screen: Audrey Hepburn.

Gaga hit the red carpet wearing Alexander McQueen

Tonight, Gaga hit the red carpet wearing Alexander McQueen, but the real pièce de résistance was her 128.54-carat Tiffany & Co diamond, aptly named "the Tiffany diamond." For any movie buffs out there—and this is the Academy Awards, so there's more than a few tuning in this evening—the diamond may have looked familiar, and for good reason: it was last worn by Audrey Hepburn in 1962 for publicity posters for Breakfast At Tiffany's. In fact, tonight marks only the third time in history that the Tiffany diamond was worn (not to mention it's first red carpet appearance); before Hepburn's spin, the diamond was first worn by Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse at the 1957 Tiffany Ball held in Newport, Rhode Island.

The yellow diamond was first discovered in South Africa in 1877

The yellow diamond was first discovered in South Africa in 1877 and acquired by Charles Lewis Tiffany a year later for a reasonable $18,000. From there, the stone was brought to the jewelry house's chief gemologist who supervised as the stone was cut into a cushion-cut with 82 facets (by comparison, a typical cut has 58). Since then, the diamond has traveled the world at various jewelry fairs and museum exhibitions—and now, the neck of Gaga. Unfortunately, if you want a chance to wear the stone for yourself, you may have missed your shot: back in 1972, an ad was placed for the stone in the New York Times, announcing it could be purchased for $5 million (about $30 million today). There were no bidders.

Lady Gaga’s Long Road to That Giant Diamond Necklace

I never got the memo, but clearly, Lady Gaga and her styling team did

When was it decided that to be taken seriously as an actress you need to dress in serious couture? I’m asking because I never got the memo, but clearly, Lady Gaga and her styling team did.

her Tiffany deal is the biggest red carpet jewelry deal ever signed

Plus, rumor has it that her Tiffany deal is the biggest red carpet jewelry deal ever signed. Tonight, she’s said to be wearing the Tiffany Yellow Diamond, weighing in at 128.54 carats — and last seen on Audrey Hepburn in a shoot for “Breakfast at Tiffany's.”

how else to explain her transformation

But how else to explain her transformation, as she has embarked on the “A Star Is Born” awards trail, from an unpredictable, experimental fashion iconoclast who didn’t believe in pants to a well-behaved brand ambassador in giant periwinkle Valentino, pure white Dior, Camelot-ready Alexander McQueen and silver Celine, each time accessorized with hundreds of carats of diamonds?

she’s playing it awfully safe

Even in the context of high-fashion fashion, she’s playing it awfully safe. It is possible, after all, to go high-end and high-concept at the same time. Designers do some eccentric stuff. Consider, for example, the Armani dress she work to the 2010 Grammys, with an entire orbital system rotating around it, which gave new meaning to the phrase “out there.

it's entirely Gaga’s right to mutate every few years into a new persona

It is, of course, entirely Gaga’s right to mutate every few years into a new persona, both artistically and stylistically. In fact, such mutation is part of her identity. This is, after all, the woman who once emerged from a giant egg, above, at the Grammys. She claimed to have been marinating inside it for approximately three days.

And to be fair, her fashionization has probably been coming for awhile. We should have seen it coming when she accepted the 2016 Golden Globe for best actress in a limited series for her role in “American Horror Story,” wearing Marilyn Monroe-esque black velvet Versace.

Maybe we should chalk it up to growing up. It’s not fair to demand our superstars remain rebels forever. It’s probably not even possible.

Maybe we should chalk it up to growing up

Bradley Cooper chats about his instant chemistry with Lady Gaga

Bradley Cooper chats about his instant chemistry with Star is Born Movie co-star Lady Gaga, Fallon Tonight

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper	Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper - Shallow, A Star Is Born	Lady Gaga Oscars 2019 Red Carpet Interview

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper Almost Kissed During 'Shallow' at the Oscars

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper Almost Kissed During 'Shallow' at the Oscars and the Internet Loves It

Cooper and Gaga's connection was so strong

If you tuned into the 91st Oscars, then you, too, might be still cooling down after Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's performance of "Shallow." When the co-stars and outspoken fans of each other gave a live rendition of the song at the center of their A Star Is Born remake, it was almost impossible to tell if they were doing it in character as Ally and Jackson or if their chemistry is just as electric in real-life. According to much of the internet, it looked to be the latter. Cooper and Gaga's connection was so strong, at the end of their performance their mouths were a couple of breaths away from a kiss.

The whole thing was as intimate as Oscar performances go

The whole thing was as intimate as Oscar performances go. Gaga and Cooper weren't officially announced. Instead, they simply got up out of their seats and walked on stage together, holding hands, where Cooper took place at a standup microphone and Gaga went to a piano. Cooper later joined her there, where he put his arm around her and continuously inched towards her. Whether their physical energy was real or fake, it was definitely Oscar-worthy and, shortly afterwards, Gaga won the Oscar for Best Original Song for "Shallow."

what it's about is not giving up. If you have a dream, fight for it

In her acceptance speech, she didn't give another iteration of her "100 people in a room" quote, but she did share a similar sentiment. "Bradley, there is not a single person on the planet that could have sang this song with me but you. Thank you for believing in us. Thank you so much," she said, before talking about how much went into her journey to this moment. "If you are at home and you're sitting at your couch and watching all I have to say is that this is hard work. I've worked hard for a long time. It's not about winning; what it's about is not giving up. If you have a dream, fight for it... It's about how many times you get rejected or you fall down or [get] beaten up; it's about how many times you stand up and are brave and keep on going."

In case you're wondering how Cooper's partner and the mother of his daughter Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper, Irina Shayk reacted, she — along with the rest of the Dolby theater — gave the pair a standing ovation when they returned to the room. But, of course, the internet has a lot more theories about what's really happening with Cooper and Gaga, as you can see below.

Inside Lady Gaga's Incredibly Close Bond With Bradley Cooper

In another situation, it could have been the start of a beautiful love story.

Bradley Cooper was with his mother, Gloria Campano, at the L.A. home of tech billionaire Sean Parker in April 2016 to celebrate the opening of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy when an emcee announced that Lady Gaga would be giving a surprise performance.

I was blown away

Cooper was intrigued, but admittedly not all that familiar with her canon of work or over-the-top stage persona, which worked out well for this particular scenario. Gaga, or as the Oscar-nominated actor prefers to think of her, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, "came out with her hair slicked back," the 44-year-old recalled to W magazine, "and she sang 'La Vie en Rose.' I was blown away, like in that old Maxell cassette commercial where the guy's hair is blown back."

Eager to cast an onscreen partner for his version of A Star Is Born, the fourth iteration of the film about a scarcely known, yet immensely talented singer catching her big break, he phoned up her agent the next morning to set up a meeting at her Malibu compound.

"She came down the stairs and we went out to her patio and I saw her eyes, and honestly, it clicked and I went, Wow,'" he shared with Vogue of their October 2018 cover star.

Have I known you my whole life?

Gaga felt it too: "The second that I saw him," she told the mag, "I was like, 'Have I known you my whole life? It was an instant connection, instant understanding of one another."

Irina Shayk, Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Oscars 2019, GIF

That chemistry was on full display some three years later when the pair took to the Oscars stage last night, hand-in-hand, to perform their Best Song-winning number, "Shallow". Staring deep into each other's eyes, Cooper even got up at one point to share the piano bench with his costar so they could literally sing cheek-to-cheek, melting the hearts of all those who have already begun to ship the pair as a potential couple.

With an instant pull toward one another, that initial professional meeting at Gaga's home back in 2016 quickly turned personal. "She said, 'Are you hungry?' and I said, 'I'm starving,' and we went into her kitchen for spaghetti and meatballs," Cooper recalled.

"My chemistry with Bradley is real, you know?

"My chemistry with Bradley is real, you know? It was instant when we met, and it only continued to grow," Gaga told E! News in January at the National Board of Review Awards, where she was honored as the Best Actress of the Year and her cohort was dubbed Best Director. "And would I work with him in the future? Absolutely."

Bradley Cooper on Directing and Starring in ‘A Star Is Born’

Bradley Cooper on Directing and Starring in ‘A Star Is Born’

Bradley Cooper opened up with Vanity Fair’s Krista Smith about everything that went into getting his directorial debut, ‘A Star Is Born,’ off the ground

Lady Gaga Explains How Bradley Cooper Made Magic with A Star Is Born


“Really, he was like Houdini.”	Bradley Cooper opened up with Vanity Fair

“Really, he was like Houdini.”

The Star Is Born actress marveled at Cooper’s ability to be both exacting director and self-destructing musician on set: “Really, he was like Houdini.”

“The more personal you make something, the more chance it has to connect with and be received by people

Before he began the first take of the first scene of his A Star Is Born remake, Bradley Cooper was absolutely certain of one thing: “The more personal you make something, the more chance it has to connect with and be received by people.

“Isn’t that what we’re always looking for? Someone to actually stand up and talk to you?” Cooper said on Monday night, after a Screen Actors Guild screening of his critically acclaimed film. “You’re compelled to listen when it’s authentic. That’s all we were trying to do this whole time.”

You’re compelled to listen when it’s authentic

Cooper took this mission so seriously that he and co-screenwriters Eric Roth and Will Fetters pulled biographical details from his, co-star Lady Gaga’s, and Sam Elliott’s own backstories, weaving them into the script so that the actors felt tethered to truth. For Lady Gaga, this meant recalling early-career insecurities and performances in drag bars. For Elliott, who played Jackson’s brother, this meant having long conversations with Cooper about their families. Speaking at a post-screening Q&A moderated by Vanity Fair Executive West Coast Editor Krista Smith, Elliott said of those early conversations, “We talked about our moms, things that were dear to us.”

For Cooper, who has been sober for almost 15 years,

For Cooper, who has been sober for almost 15 years, this meant channeling his own addiction past to play a musician overcome by emotional pain and demons. Cooper’s quest for authenticity required the first-time filmmaker to clear other hurdles—like playing the guitar, singing, and performing live for surprised audience members during actual music festivals like Glastonbury. But the scenes in which Jackson plumbed the depths of addiction—picking a drunken fight with Ally, for example—were more frightening for Cooper than any concert scenario.

It really did feel real, which is all we try to do

“I was terrified to know that we both were going to have to go to this place, specifically Jackson, and what he was going to have to provoke in [Ally],” Cooper explained of the couple’s fight, which precedes the film’s tragic climax. “Oddly enough, she provoked it in him when she brought up his dad, which really allowed me as Jackson to firmly embrace how dark I wanted to go as him. That’s only because she risked saying that and I felt it. I felt the risk of what she knew that meant to him, how much she was hurting him in that moment. It really did feel real, which is all we try to do. . . . I know as an actor that’s what I’m always looking for, so that’s all I tried to create, an environment where everybody is talking to each other and risking everything.”

Lady Gaga said she was impressed by the way Cooper managed to embody this self-destructing musician while simultaneously maintaining complete control as director. “It was like a magic trick for us . . . really, he was like Houdini.”

you have to completely trust your director

“We’re having this extremely emotional, awful conversation with each other and—at the same time—you have to completely trust your director. In a moment where I’m almost untrusting of him and angry with him and insulted by him, I’m also, in the back of my mind, in the space of comfort, in the space of love,” said Gaga. “What was very special about that scene, for me anyways, was the themes of alcoholism and the theme of co-dependency and addiction—that is something that has affected me in my life. To share that with him was very, very special to me. He really honored that. It’s an interesting thing to feel afraid and yet unafraid at the same time. I felt that way the whole time we filmed. That is a very heavy scene, but I will say that sense of vulnerability I felt this entire time we were filming, it was that exact thing—fear, but no fear.”

But it wasn’t just the way that Cooper summoned Jackson’s unspoken pain for that scene.

and then immediately shift into director mode

“To see Bradley get out, perform that beat, shut the door”—and then immediately shift into director mode—“and pick up a monitor, walk around to the front of the truck . . . I’m there like, ‘What the fuck, man? I’m still in the scene.’ . . . It was a really incredible moment for me to see Bradley-actor [switch into] Bradley-director. We did two takes of that.”

Lady Gaga interjected, “Isn’t it amazing in that scene—there’s so much that is said, but it’s also what’s unsaid that really grabs you. If a man can make you cry backing up a pickup truck . . .”

Clint was literally right next to the camera [talking me through it]

Even for scenes in A Star Is Born where Cooper’s character was not present, the first-time filmmaker said he insisted on physically being within arm’s reach for each of his actors. On previous projects, he felt most comfortable when filmmakers like David O. Russell and Clint Eastwood opted to sit with him rather than in video village, watching from a distance behind a set of monitors with a pack of producers. “I always remember on American Sniper, the very tight shot with a very horrific moment, Clint was literally right next to the camera [talking me through it]. When the director is actually right there, it feels as if—and that’s what I try to do—it feels like you’re not alone risking it, that the director is right there with you and has just as much to lose. I completely took that, because I know as an actor, if the director is right here, and I feel it, I’m going to be much more willing to risk.”

Bradley Cooper on Making A Star Is Born, Against the Odds

Bradley Cooper was only vaguely aware of Lady Gaga

"I didn’t really know who she was,”

Before he cast her in his thrilling and resonant version of A Star Is Born, the fourth incarnation of the classic cinematic tale of doomed romance, Bradley Cooper was only vaguely aware of Lady Gaga. “I didn’t really know who she was,” Cooper told me at 8:30 in the morning at a restaurant in downtown Manhattan this past summer. In his uniform of jeans and a navy zip-up sweatshirt, Cooper was energized well before his coffee arrived; he is a morning person and had been up for hours. He and his longtime girlfriend, the model Irina Shayk, and their baby daughter, Lea, recently moved from Los Angeles to New York, and for days Cooper had barely moved from our cozy table, scheduling all his meetings there. “It’s become my office,” he said, laughing.

he has always had a kind of contagious, boundless, puppy like enthusiasm for all aspects of his profession

I have known Cooper, who is 43, since his Academy Award–nominated performance in the 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook, and he has always had a kind of contagious, boundless, puppylike enthusiasm for all aspects of his profession. But this morning there was a different level of engagement. Cooper directed A Star Is Born, cowrote the script and several of the songs in the movie, and oversaw every detail of the production. He even learned to sing and speak like a country-rock music star, lowering his vocal register an octave to sound raspy and worn. From the beginning of his professional acting career, Cooper has been intrigued by more than whatever character he’s playing, and there was a sense that his ambitious dreams were coming true with this movie.

Cooper calls her Stefani Germanotta

Which brings us back to Lady Gaga, or, as Cooper calls her, Stefani. (Her given name is Stefani Germanotta.) “I was at a cancer benefit with my mother,” Cooper recalled. “I really did not know Lady Gaga’s music. They had a surprise musical guest, and Stefani came out with her hair slicked back, and she sang ‘La Vie en Rose.’ I was blown away, like in that old Maxell cassette commercial where the guy’s hair is blown back.” Cooper saw her not as a world-famous star but as a stripped-down woman, and immediately envisioned her as his leading lady. “I called her agent the next day and said, ‘Can I go to her house and meet her right away?’ I drove to Malibu, and we sat on her porch, and the next thing I know, I’m eating spaghetti and meatballs, and I said, ‘Can we sing a song together?’ ”

Gaga has turned it into a bluesy, Janis Joplin–esque anthem.

The video is fascinating: As they begin to sing, Cooper looks nervous, and Gaga, with short bleached blonde hair, seems confident but wary. “It’s awkward,” Cooper admitted. But after one verse, Gaga stops singing and stares at Cooper. “Has anyone heard you sing?” she asks. The acknowledgement of Cooper’s raw talent seems to embolden him. They start to harmonize on the chorus, and by the end of the song, Gaga has turned it into a bluesy, Janis Joplin–esque anthem.

the plutonium in A Star Is Born is Stefani’s voice.”.

As the clip ended, Cooper looked at the screen. “I was so happy at that moment,” he said. “I’m from an Italian background, and so is she. We were immediately comfortable with each other. We made a kind of deal: I believed in her as an actress, and she believed in me as a musician. I wanted there to be a meta aspect to the film, and Stefani gave me that. Also, no actress can do musically what I needed Stefani to do in 42 days of shooting: I needed plutonium. And the plutonium in A Star Is Born is Stefani’s voice.”

Saying no to Clint Eastwood was the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

Cooper, in fact, had been thinking about A Star Is Born for some time. Clint Eastwood, one of his mentors, had suggested that he star in a remake he was considering. “That was five years ago. I was 38 at the time, and I felt I was too young for the part,” Cooper explained. “Pretending I’d lived more than I had wouldn’t have worked. Saying no to Clint Eastwood was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I had put myself on tape for every Eastwood film. He was my hero!”

In 2014, Eastwood and Cooper worked together on American Sniper

In 2014, Eastwood and Cooper worked together on American Sniper, which made over $500 million at the box office and garnered Cooper his second Academy Award nomination for best actor in a leading role. He followed up with The Elephant Man, the play that had inspired him to become an actor when he was a child. “I saw the film adaptation of The Elephant Man when I was 12,” Cooper recalled. “That story changed me. It stayed on my skin and left an indelible mark. That’s when I consciously thought, I want to do this job.”

I said to Clint, ‘Let’s do A Star Is Born.’

During the promotion for American Sniper, Eastwood and Cooper were at an industry event at the Chateau Marmont hotel, in Los Angeles, where Annie Lennox was performing “I Put a Spell on You,” her song from the 2015 film 50 Shades of Grey. Cooper was mesmerized. “As she sang, I saw the veins in her neck pop, and I said to Clint, ‘Let’s do A Star Is Born.’ He replied, ‘That ship has sailed.’ I went to bed that night and saw the whole beginning of the movie in my mind, and I knew I had to direct it.”

In 2014, Eastwood and Cooper worked together on American Sniper

Cooper grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and was in awe of his father, a stockbroker who had lung cancer for five years before he died, in January 2011. “I wanted to be my father,” Cooper told me. “When I was 8 years old, I wore suits to school and carried a briefcase.” He now wears his father’s gold wedding band on a chain around his neck, and his memory seems to motivate Cooper in some unconscious way: He has an intuitive feeling that time is short and there’s a lot to accomplish. Sometimes, that sense of carpe diem means that Cooper seems to be in the right place at the right time (yes, that was him sitting next to the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles when the team won the Super Bowl last February). And although he won’t go into specifics, it also clearly means that he has a plan for the future that involves a lot more than acting. “I always thought I had six characters in me, and I’ve already played a few of them,” he said. “I’ve been a soldier [American Sniper], a musician [A Star Is Born], a chef [Burnt], and a disfigured person [The Elephant Man]. I still want to play a conductor. And then who knows?”

Cooper paused. “I’ve always been an underdog,”

Cooper paused. “I’ve always been an underdog,” he said. “I was always operating under the lens of not really being seen as the ‘main guy.’ ” I suggested that after A Star Is Born, it would be impossible for anyone to underestimate him again. “Maybe,” he said, smiling slightly. “But who knows? I’ve heard it all in my career. Early on, I didn’t get a role because they said I wasn’t ‘fuckable.’ ” He paused again. “In the end, you have to reserve your attention for the work and not listen to anyone. People I care about, who care about me, told me not to direct A Star Is Born, said that it would be too difficult and I should start with something easier. Luckily, I didn’t listen. I loved that it was really, really hard to make this film. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have the same value. And that’s always been my goal: to make something, no matter how challenging, that will be remembered.”

A moment in my life

Mark Seliger’s 2019 Oscar Portrait Studio

A moment in my life I will never forget. My whole artistic journey flashed before my eyes. Thank you to the Academy and to the gentlemen who wrote and performed this song with me. Mark Seliger, Vanity Fair

Lady Gaga's Platinum Blonde Hair

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Lady Gaga's Makeup Artist Sarah Tanno On the Singer's Beauty Evolution

Gaga and Tanno opted to highlight the icon's natural beauty

Over the past 10 years, Lady Gaga has had just as many different phases of style, if not more. There is a now a Gaga era for every mood; a different aesthetic for every day of the week. While much of that is due to the pop star turned actress' gift for constant reinvention — stylistically, sonically, and creatively — it's also in part thanks to her makeup artist Sarah Tanno, who has worked with Lady Gaga since 2009, when her hits "Just Dance," "Poker Face," and "Bad Romance" ruled the charts, and she dominated the red carpet as a meme queen. From that point up until now, Tanno and Gaga have worked tirelessly to never repeat the same looks and, this past year when Gaga embarked on the A Star Is Born press tour, they took their ability to surprise one step further: Instead of playing to the shock factor, Gaga and Tanno opted to highlight the icon's natural beauty in an understated yet gorgeous way. The recent Grammys were a prime example of that, where Gaga paired a disco gown from Celine's Hedi Slimane with a low-key smoky eye and a pink lip. In anticipation of this year's Oscars, where Gaga is poised to be the red carpet highlight yet again, Tanno explained the inspiration behind her recent Grammys look (and the surprising thing about it you may have missed), Gaga's hidden talent, and what we can expect from Gaga's first appearance at the Oscars as a nominee.

How did you start working with Gaga?

Her day to day manager at the time remembered my portfolio from three years prior when I had done a job with her for Fergie and thought Gaga would like my style. Yes, back then you had to carry around a portfolio of your work.

What was the first look you collaborated on?

The very first time I did her makeup was for one of her last shows of the Fame Ball. I was so nervous and I remember not having much time. She said to me, "Live your eyeliner, Breathe your lipstick." So I gave her a huge winged liner and a bright pink mouth you could see from across the club. I now have that quote tattooed on my arm, because that day changed my life.

How do you approach each look?

It usually starts with what she's wearing. We have a tight group of creative friends she calls the "Haus," and we all collaborate closely with Gaga for every moment, whether its a performance, red carpet or video. We all bring what we think is our strongest ideas to the table and then work off of each other, we present them to Gaga and then she elevates it to where its supposed to be. We have a tremendous amount of trust in each other which I think makes us the team we are.

What kinds of conversations did you have going into the press tour for A Star Is Born? Did her character Ally factor into how you approached her red carpet looks?

No, she really wanted to feel like herself. I never wanted the makeup looks to be too expected. She still had to walk the carpets and feel Gaga.

What was the inspiration behind her gorgeous Grammys look?

She was wearing Celine and Hedi Slimane has such a specific vibe. I wanted her makeup to not be too far of a departure from his aesthetic, but still be fresh for a red carpet. I decided to just use a smudgy black liner on the outer corners of her eyes using Marc Jacobs Beauty Highliner in Blaquer. I went with no mascara or lashes which I know is a bold choice for a red carpet, but it really felt right to us and it's one of my favorite looks.

What is her daily beauty routine like?

I'm sure you have noticed she has incredible skin. She is great at taking the best care of it. She loves sheet masks and takes pride in her skin care routine. She also has an amazing facialist named Joomee Song who does some really advanced massage techniques to tighten and helps with inflammation and circulation.

Lady Gaga Tells People to "Fight" for Their Dreams

Lady Gaga graced the stage at the 2019 Oscars on Sunday night to accept the award for Best Original Song for A Star Is Born's "Shallow" alongside her co-writers Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt.

Gaga burst into tears

When she heard her name called, Gaga burst into tears and gave her co-star and the film's director Bradley Cooper a huge hug. During her emotional speech, the 32-year-old singer thanked her family and Cooper. She praised her sister, who she called her "soulmate" and said that both of her parents were in attendance as well.

"There's not a single person on the planet that could have sang this song with me but you," she said.

She also spent much of her speech encouraging others to work hard and believe in themselves. "If you are at home and you're sitting on your couch and you're watching this right now, all I have to say is that this is hard work," the Oscar winner told the crowd.

"I've worked hard for a long time, and it's not about winning," she continued. "But what it's about is not giving up. If you have a dream, fight for it. If there's a discipline for passion, it's not about how many times you get rejected or fall down or beaten up. It's about how many times you stand up and are brave. And you keep going."

Gaga told Giuliana Rancic on the red carpet before the show that she would call up both of her grandmas at the same time if she won and have a "conference call with grandmas" about the sweet victory. She also encouraged spreading love and said it's "all that you can hope for."

The "Bad Romance" singer made Oscars history

The "Bad Romance" singer made Oscars history tonight as she wore a $30 million Tiffany & Co. necklace.

"Shallow" beat out Black Panther's "All the Stars," RBG's "I'll Fight," Mary Poppins Returns' "The Place Where Lost Things Go" and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings."

During her 2019 Critics' Choice Awards speech, she explained, "This song is a conversation between men and women. Asking each other questions about life and a desire for more depth of the shallowness of a modern era."

Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt

Anthony Rossomando opens up about his dark past: ‘I was in the mindset of Jackson Maine’

It’s an against-all-odds success story

Just a few years ago, veteran indie-rock musician Anthony Rossomando was battling addiction, crashing on friends’ couches and selling off his musical equipment just to survive. But this year, at age 42, he was onstage in a tuxedo at the Golden Globes, the Grammys and, most recently, the Oscars, picking up trophies for “Shallow,” the A Star Is Born theme he co-wrote with his old New York City friends Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt and Lady Gaga. It’s an against-all-odds success story even more dramatic than the rise of Star’s fictional Ally Maine, but in many ways, it’s a case of life imitating art.

“I got asked to write on the song due to the subject matter

“I got asked to write on the song due to the subject matter and the character, I guess,” Rossomando tells Yahoo Entertainment, still reeling from the fanfare of Oscar night (when “Shallow” won Best Original Song), as he recalls the fateful phone call he received from Gaga just one year into his sobriety. “She thought I would be a very good fit. She’d read the script and had had a couple chats with Bradley [Cooper] and had a feel for what embodied the characters, particularly Jackson. And I think she wanted to bring men in that could relate to that [addict] character. I was in the mindset of Jackson Maine. That’s why she thought I was the right candidate to write about this.”

“Somebody to Love Me,”

Rossomando, who has been represented by Downtown Music Publishing Anthony since 2012, had recently reconnected with Gaga after playing guitar on her Ronson-co-produced 2016 album Joanne and giving her guitar lessons, plus he had written with Ronson and Wyatt before on “Somebody to Love Me,” a highlight of Ronson’s 2010 album, Record Collection. But long before that, Rossomando had played in indie band the Damn Personals, who were discovered by Mark Kates (a famous A&R executive who had worked with Nirvana, the Beastie Boys, Beck, Sonic Youth and Hole), followed by stints in the British garage combo the Libertines (as the replacement for the notorious Pete Doherty) and with the Libertines’ Carl Barat in Dirty Pretty Things. “I was a daily drinker at that point, and that didn’t really change obviously when I joined the Libertines,” he says. It was after Dirty Pretty Things disbanded that his life got especially dark.

I couldn’t even tell you where I was

“The comedown turned into a bunch of lost years … somewhere between 2012 and 2014 or ’15. I never really knew what was going on. I couldn’t even tell you where I was. I’m talking about different countries,” Rossomando confesses. “I was living like it was still the old days, but I didn’t have a band anymore. I was ‘that guy,’ living the glory days but without the glory — and without much living. From living to the living dead. My friend group dissolved a little bit, and people started to get their lives together, so I jumped into the next phase of partiers.”

Rossomando admits that he “felt shamed. I felt like a cliché as well. I had a lot of self-judgment.” But then, he hit a turning point.

I had one guitar left. I had sold all my gear

“I had one guitar left. I had sold all my gear. I was selling expensive, vintage musical equipment in back alleys in London and parking lots of L.A. for cash for various purposes, just to cover my ass, just to stay in whatever place I was living,” he reveals. “God was looking after me through the kindness of others, sometimes strangers, people that really had my back, but I couldn’t see that at the time. I don’t think I could even fully see it when we wrote [“Shallow”], to be honest. I was still trying to figure out who I was. You have to find out who you are all over again.

Eventually, Rossomando “listened to somebody who had an ‘MD’ and ‘PhD’ after their name

Eventually, Rossomando “listened to somebody who had an ‘MD’ and ‘PhD’ after their name,” and he sought help. “I’m bipolar, and I was self-medicating for most of my life — I’m talking 20 years,” he says. “It made me feel OK. I even told some people that I felt my most calm when I was about four hours into a bender, and then for the next eight hours and somewhere over the next days, I would just be floundering. But at least I felt OK.” These experiences are reflected in the lyrics he contributed to A Star Is Born’s Oscar-winning song. “The ‘shallow,’ to me, almost could be interpreted almost as the inner thoughts of a manic-depressive, because you’ve got this pendulum swing: ‘Watch me act out, because I’m showing you on the surface that I’m actually fine and having a wild time, and look at how elated and happy and manic I am, everything’s gonna be fine! When truthfully, on the inside, I’m f***ing dying, man.’ It’s like a cry for help. Anyway, I got help. And I’m very blessed I did. Now I can live a normal life.”

Anthony Rossomando and Lady Gaga at the 91st annual Academy Awards

Anthony Rossomando and Lady Gaga at the 91st annual Academy Awards Governors Ball on Feb. 24, 2019.

Rossomando was “in a really in-tune, perceptive place

By the time the A Star Is Born opportunity materialized, Rossomando was “in a really in-tune, perceptive place. I was kind of a raw nerve, and I was writing about my own struggles quite a bit, which was helping me make sense of the world. So, the timing was really spot-on when this came around. … For so many years, I was blessed with amazing collaborators, and I think I’ve always had something to add, but about a year into [sobriety] when this call came through, it was the beginning of me being able to be calm enough — and not so much literally shake. I used to have physical reactions to certain situations that I couldn’t control, that would make me act really wildly.”

The “Shallow” sessions coincided with a lot of heart-to-hearts between Rossomando and his old friend Gaga.

The “Shallow” sessions coincided with a lot of heart-to-hearts between Rossomando and his old friend Gaga. (“We’re both Italian kids from the Tri-State area; I think there’s a similar sensibility amongst us, that family thing. I always found LG really easy to talk to.”) They were both hurting at the time, and that too lent the song grit and gravitas. “She was really going through it. I think she was really struggling with her issues via her fiancé. She was in that breakup that was lasting over a year, that dragged-out breakup thing. And I had the experience of a dragged-out version of trying to just be healthy. It’s funny to think that there’s years and years and years distilled into a three-minute song. I think that’s why the song is so powerful. Everyone’s experience is so profound, and we’re a little bit older. We’ve been through some s***. … I think it’s fairly obvious to see it wasn’t written by 20-year-olds.”

Rossomando admits he is overwhelmed by all the attention

Rossomando admits he is overwhelmed by all the attention “Shallow” has received, and he still feels “very, very tentative” discussing his addiction and mental health issues. “I tend to hide from these things. The song is so f***ing massive. People know it in and out. And now I have to explain a song like this. I don’t remember Kurt Cobain explaining songs, you know what I mean? But I understand this is a different era,” he says. “And maybe this song started a national conversation. Maybe it’s opened up people to also want to surrender, because my whole story is all about surrender. If I can be a part of that conversation, then that’s incredible … And you know, without the [Oscar] statue, what’s actually tangible is the song and how it affects people, even to see entire church congregations singing it and having their own interpretation that has this healing quality to it.”

Love, not fear

At various a speeches, but he knows what he would have said if he’d had a moment at the podium on Oscar night. “I would’ve only said three words: ‘Love, not fear,’” he reveals. “Because I feel like that’s the choice we have every day, in so many situations that make us uncomfortable. Are you coming from a place of love or a place of fear? Fear is the thing that motivates us to not see what’s actually happening. You can’t find forgiveness in that. On that day [when we wrote “Shallow”], we were not afraid to express that.”

Lady Gaga on Oscar Win & Being “In Love” with Bradley Cooper

Lady Gaga talks about what her life has been like since she won the Oscar, the importance of hard work, performing Shallow live at the Oscars, the speculation that she and Bradley Cooper are in love, giving her Oscar speech, new footage from A Star is Born being released, sneaking into movie theaters to see it, and Jimmy and Guillermo present her with the platinum record for A Star is Born.

Lady Gaga Wore a Baggy Pantsuit “to Take the Power Back”

Lady Gaga is making a statement with her wardrobe

Lady Gaga is making a statement with her wardrobe. The singer-cum-actress spoke during Elle magazine’s Women in Hollywood Awards in Beverly Hills on Monday night, wearing an oversize Marc Jacobs suit to the event, which she later explained was a way for her “to take the power back.”

“As a sexual assault survivor by someone in the entertainment industry, as a woman who is still not brave enough to say his name, as a woman who lives with chronic pain, as a woman who was conditioned at a very young age to listen to what men told me to do, I decided today I wanted to take the power back,” she said in a tear-filled speech after Jennifer Lopez presented her with a Women in Hollywood award. “Today, I wear the pants.

She said of her wardrobe choice, “I tried on dress after dress today getting ready for this event, one tight corset after another, one heel after another, a diamond, a feather, thousands of beaded fabrics and the most beautiful silks in the world. To be honest, I felt sick to my stomach. And I asked myself: what does it really mean to be a woman in Hollywood? We are not just objects to entertain the world. We are not simply images to bring smiles or grimaces to people’s faces. We are not members of a giant beauty pageant meant to be pit against one another for the pleasure of the public. We women in Hollywood, we are voices. We have deep thoughts and ideas and beliefs and values about the world and we have the power to speak and be heard and fight back when we are silenced.”

She went on to detail her own experience with sexual assault at 19 and her battles with P.T.S.D. and fibromyalgia. She stressed the need in resources for mental health, saying, “I want to see mental health become a global priority.”

“For me, this is what it means to be a woman in Hollywood. It means, I have a platform. I have a chance to make a change,” she said. “I pray we listen and believe and pay closer attention to those around us to those in need. . . . Be a helping hand. Be a force for change.”

Gaga’s wardrobe has been full of standout looks during her press tour for A Star Is Born, but while she initially embraced an old Hollywood–type of glamour, the Elle speech makes a much more personal turn in the spotlight. From the Marc Jacobs suit to the Elizabethan-inspired Alexander McQueen gown at the film’s London premiere, a nod to her avant-garde roots and homage to the late designer and friend, Lady Gaga’s sartorial choices are becoming increasingly complex and meaningful—and with many more months of awards season to go, she has many more opportunities to speak up through her clothing.

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