Lady Gaga is the 2019 awards season gift we don’t deserve. She’s earned Best Actress and Best Original Song nominations for A Star Is Born at essentially every major show, including the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the Oscars. She’s graced us with her presence at every ceremony, and thank God. In a season plagued with boring speeches and standard red-carpet looks, she’s a shining light. And get this: We still have the actual Academy Awards and Grammys on deck. Just imagine what Gaga will do.
We knew Gaga’s red-carpet looks would be on point—this is Lady Gaga, after all—but we had idea how many hilarious, instantly-iconic moments would come from her at each show. I don’t even care what wins Best Picture at the Oscars so long as Gaga shows up. That’s where I’m at. And after you go through her best awards-season moments, below, you’ll be there, too.
Let’s start with the Golden Globes, where she rolled in looking like pop-star Cinderella. Translation: A Disney princess who once ate doll heads in concert.
The Internet quickly noticed similarities between Gaga’s Globes dress and something Judy Garland wore in the 1954 version of A Star Is Born. A red carpet reporter asked Gaga about this, and she had no idea what people were talking about. Naturally, her response became a meme.
Here’s that full interview, if you want to watch:
Then, inside the actual show, hosts Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh made jokes about Gaga’s “100 people in a room” soundbite. For context: In basically every interview promoting A Star Is Born, Gaga raved about how Bradley Cooper had faith in her by saying, “There can be 100 people in a room and 99 don’t believe in you, but all it takes is just one.” When Oh and Samberg made their crack, Gaga just laughed and said, “It’s true.” We love a self-aware pop queen.
Moving on to the Critics’ Choice Awards, a very boring event made delightful by one Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. How did she do this, you ask? In many ways. We’ll begin with this video of Rachel Bloom’s mother hugging Gaga and promptly freaking the fuck out.
The way she smiled and screamed with glee? Wow, I felt that. (Entertainment Tonight has the full interview.)
Or how about when Gaga tied with Glenn Close for Best Actress? The first thing she said in her speech was, “I spilled water all over myself.” She is you. She is me.
What the hell are she and Regina King doing in this photo? Praying? Telepathically transferring their talents? I have no idea, but it’s flawless and I’m sad I wasn’t there.
And then, of course, there are the photos Glenn and Gaga took in the press room. Here’s what they talked about, in my mind:
Glenn: Me? A legend?
Gaga: Yes, you.
Glenn: Can I just say ARTPOP is vastly underrated and deserved better?
Gaga: Yes, you can. Come here. [They embrace]
Gaga: I say, “I want your love, and I want your revenge.” You say:
Glenn: You and me could write a bad romance.
Let’s take a quick detour to a non-televised event: The National Board of Review Awards: Which took place at the beginning of January, but Gaga still showed up in this outfit:
Who needs a coat when you have the love of every gay man under 30 to keep warm?
