Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson Talk "Shallow" Oscar Win Backstage | Oscars 2019 - video Dailymotion

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This was the first Oscar win for the songwriting team. Gaga has a previous nomination in the category along with best actress nomination for 'A Star Is Born.'

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00:00Hi, this is Marietta Melrose from Bulgaria.

00:02Amazing job.

00:04Just congratulations.

00:05You've touched people around the world.

00:07And because, as a testimony of your work,

00:10I want to shine light upon your documentary.

00:13You started your documentary with a Bulgarian song.

00:17How did you guys decide to do that?

00:19And thank you for doing it.

00:21Well, I have to actually give all that credit

00:23to Chris Mokabel, who is the director of that film.

00:27That was his idea, and I think he did a beautiful job.

00:32Everyone should watch your documentary.

00:35Mark's in it.

00:35We're going back to 255.

00:39G'day, guys.

00:40Just up the back here.

00:41Andrew Bucklow from news.com.au in Australia.

00:44Gaga, to you specifically.

00:45I'm sorry, where are you?

00:47Up the back.

00:47And give me one second.

00:48So we're going to him, and then we'll go to 24.

00:51The handsome man up the back.

00:53Gaga, you have so many fans that are members of the LG

00:57LGBTQI community.

00:59At the moment, so many of them are on their way to Sydney

01:01to celebrate for the gay and lesbian Mardi Gras.

01:04Your songs, as well as Shallow, will be on repeat

01:07throughout the whole festival.

01:08I'm wondering if there's a message that you can send

01:11to everyone who's on their way to Mardi Gras.

01:13What I would love to say is one of the hardest things in life

01:19is to be brave enough to be yourself.

01:22I wish to everyone that is going to that celebration

01:26to feel a joy inside of them.

01:29That's actually what Bradley said to me yesterday,

01:33right before we did our last rehearsal

01:36for this performance of Shallow.

01:38He said, let's just drop a little bit of joy.

01:42And I said, OK.

01:44And it turns out, joy did a whole lot for me.

01:48So I'll tell you something.

01:50I hope that everyone there in Sydney feels so much joy

01:54and celebrates all sexual identities.

01:57And I also have a true dream in our future

02:01as we evolve as humanity,

02:03that these award shows will not be male and female,

02:06but that we include everyone.

02:10We're going to 24 and then I'll go to 140.

02:14Hi, I'm over here to your right.

02:15Charlie from Crystal Vision Media.

02:17Congratulations to all of you.

02:19Gaga, can you talk a little bit about

02:21what you talked about on stage?

02:23I think that a lot of people might look at you

02:25and all the wins and success you've had in your life

02:28and they don't really see what you've been through

02:31to get to where you are today.

02:33Can you talk a little bit about

02:34some of the struggles that you've had to overcome

02:37and what's brought you to where you are today?

02:39Well, I'll have to bring the gentleman up with me

02:41a little closer while I answer this question.

02:45Because firstly, what I would like to say is

02:48for this film, there were many songs written,

02:51but there was one song that was written

02:54with true, true friends of mine that I've known

02:58who know everything about me, the ups and the downs.

03:03And the truth is, people see what they see on the outside.

03:08And in some way, shape or form at times,

03:11we become archetypes.

03:13But the truth is, I was so determined to live my dreams.

03:23And yet, there was so much in the way.

03:27There were so many things I did not anticipate

03:30that broke me, that tortured me, that traumatized me.

03:35And I think, sometimes, what you are trying to clarify

03:40is that people think that it comes easy to us.

03:44Because when we show up and we have our suits on,

03:48that it's all OK.

03:50But the truth is, every single person on this stage

03:54has been through so much.

03:57We are friends.

03:59We have worked on ourselves in life.

04:03We have tried to heal through the torment

04:08of this industry and being artists.

04:12And the truth is that this is very, very hard work.

04:18And it is not for the faint of heart.

04:20But I would never want to imply that anyone in the world

04:25is faint of heart.

04:26I wanted everyone tonight to feel

04:29like they could be each one of us on that stage.

04:33And I'm so very grateful that I got to be up there

04:37with these incredible men that I call my friends.

04:40I remember the moment we wrote this song together.

04:43It was great.

04:44It was beautiful.

04:45And I'm so honored to be here.

04:50Hey.

04:51We're going to go to 140 and then 189.

04:56Hello.

04:57Taylor Kaye from Toronto.

04:58We have your song in heavy rotation.

04:59So thank you for that.

05:01And music plays such an integral part in movies.

05:04I'm asking the question, what movie soundtrack did you, Lady Gaga and Mark, first purchase?

05:10What was your first movie soundtrack?

05:11Mine was either Top Gun or Beverly Hills Cup.

05:17That puts about, like, my age on display and Axl F and Top Gun theme.

05:23So yeah, there you go.

05:25For me, it was The Bodyguard.

05:27Yeah.

05:28Come on.

05:29Uh, Singles, I think it was.

05:33Oh, yeah, you did make a cool one.

05:34Yeah.

05:35That's good.

05:36No, but I didn't end up really liking it that much, except for the one song I'm

05:39thinking of as well.

05:40Uh, Risky Business.

05:41Ooh.

05:42All right.

05:43We're going to go here to 189 and then back to 44.

05:47This is Lady Gaga right here in front.

05:49Hi.

05:50This is kind of from New York Magazine.

05:51For you, this has been clearly, we saw tonight, we've seen it at other evenings throughout

05:55this whole experience for you, a very emotional journey that you've been on.

06:00And I'm curious how, what you felt making the movie, writing the songs, getting through

06:06this night, has, how it has set the table for what you want to do going forward and maybe

06:12more importantly, who you want to be.

06:15I want to continue to be myself.

06:19I want to continue to fight for what I believe in and do my best.

06:27The truth is, I am not standing here tonight for myself.

06:32And I think I can speak for these men standing next to me, that they are not standing here

06:37tonight for themselves either.

06:39We are standing here for all of you.

06:41We love making music.

06:43We love making art.

06:45I love being an actress.

06:47And the truth is, when this Oscar was handed to me tonight, I looked right in the eyes of

06:53it, and I saw a lot of pain.

06:58I saw all the things that I've been through.

07:02And I also felt the camaraderie and the truth of the pain that the men standing next to me

07:08have been through as well.

07:11I said it before and I'll say it again, this is not easy work.

07:17And nothing was handed to us.

07:19And I couldn't be prouder to be up here with my real friends.

07:24We really sat in a room and wrote a song together, not knowing if anyone would give a damn.

07:34When we talk to each other about life, say something, Mark, I can't keep talking.

07:40Well, we also, me and her drank a lot of Jameson.

07:45She sat at a piano, I'm telling you.

07:47Then.

07:48Not today.

07:49She sat at a piano and we all had headphones on and there was like this slightly quiet,

07:53hushed vibe in the room and Anthony was playing a guitar and I remember when she first was

07:58kind of like throwing out melody, she's like, tell me something, girl, and all my hair stood

08:03up and I thought like, it felt like someone hugging my soul from like the heavens.

08:08And there's, that's what this song has.

08:10It has melancholy, it has triumph, it has the feeling of a hug, all these things.

08:14And then the performance in the film and Bradley's direction is what then put it in everyone's

08:19hearts.

08:20Yes.

08:21We have to thank Bradley tremendously because the truth is everybody in this room knows

08:26this song would not be what it is without this film and without Bradley Cooper and without

08:31his incredible voice on this record and without the way he shot this moment in this film.

08:37It's backwards, I'm sorry.

08:42We didn't even know because we weren't in the film, making the film like Lady Gaga wasn't.

08:47I saw the first rough assemblage of the film, Bradley was kind enough to show it to me and

08:50I saw the scene in the parking lot and I had no idea that our song had now become part

08:54of the script and she turns to him and she goes, tell me something in the parking lot

08:58and I just wanted, all my hair stood up, sorry, I'm a little lacking on other expressions right

09:04now, but, and I just wanted to run out and call Andrew and Anthony and be like, you're not,

09:08like first of all, we're going to be rich, no, but I wanted to be like, you're not going

09:13to believe when you see what they've done with this song, like it's like it's on steroids,

09:17the emotional weight of it now, like I'm so psyched, you can buy the house, Anthony, no.

09:22And then I was like, so yeah.

09:24It's your house.

09:25Yeah, I guess.

09:26Yeah, we all live together.

09:27Yeah, we all live together, but it really is special and Bradley, you know, we've all

09:32been involved with different songs for different films and stuff and like, you know what Bradley

09:36does when you see the way that that song is performed and weaved into that narrative is,

09:41it's a testament to his thing.

09:42And I wish that you all could have witnessed watching him sing take after take live.

09:51This was sung live every single time what you see in this film was sung live, it was recorded

09:57live, it was recorded live properly so that it would sound fantastic.

10:03And he also directed at the same time.

10:06And I truly hope that everyone in the room tonight when they saw our performance saw the

10:12true brilliant man that he is, the actor, the director, the screenplay writer, the producer,

10:22the musician.

10:23And we're going to wrap it up with 44 right here.

10:29Congratulations, Lady Gaga's jazz rules daily.

10:32I think it's safe to say every monster, everybody who's seen the film gives a damn about the song.

10:37It's so beautiful.

10:39Why do you think the song resonated?

10:41We first heard it back in August when the trailer was released.

10:44Now in March, people have listened to it like thousands of times.

10:48Why has it resonated so deeply with everybody?

10:50Do you want to talk a bit about that?

10:53I think Gaga said it before and I'll just echo it again and I think it's pretty on point,

10:58is that the song started with a conversation.

11:00The song itself is a conversation and it's between a man and a woman.

11:04And I think that's maybe there's some timing involved where people's hearts are open to

11:08that conversation.

11:10And I don't know, maybe that's why it has translated so widely.

11:15Someone sent me a couple of videos this week of an entire church congregation singing the

11:19song.

11:20And I was like, you know, it brought me to tears, actually.

11:22Did your hair stand up?

11:23My hair stood up, but not as high as Mark's.

11:26You know, I really believe in my heart that the unfortunate truth is that our cell phones,

11:36as I watch you all typing, are becoming reality.

11:42It's becoming reality for the world.

11:45And in this song, we provide not just a conversation, but also a very poignant statement.

11:55I wish to not be in the shallow, but I am.

11:59But I wish to dive off the deep end and watch me do it.

12:04I think this is something that speaks to many people.

12:08And during, I think, a very shallow time, it's a chance for us all to grab hands, you know,

12:18and just dive off into the water together and swim into the deepest depths of the ocean

12:23that we can.

12:25Thank you so much.

12:27Congratulations to all of you.

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