ABC/Rick RowellLady Gaga received not one but two Oscar nominations on Tuesday: Best Actress for A Star Is Born, and Best Original Song for “Shallow,” also from A Star Is Born. She’s the first person to be nominated in those two categories in the same year. It’s no wonder that she’s emotional about her honors.
“I think sometimes people forget that even though this is a big movie, we’re all really artists that are like kids playing in a sandbox,” she tells The Los Angeles Times. “To be recognized at this level just makes the heart explode, because truly and deeply, I still very much feel like a child with big dreams.”
Gaga also commented on the fact that her co-star Bradley Cooper wasn’t nominated for Best Director, seen by many as a major snub by the Academy.
“At the end of the day, he knows that he’s the best director in my eyes, and in all of our eyes as his cast,” she explains. “I know that he’s so happy that we’ve all been nominated and that the film was recognized and we all feel really, really beyond elated for the recognition.”
The star also revealed how she found out about her nods. When she woke up, she assumed her fiance Christian Carino was going to leave her a note, but she didn’t see one.
“I thought I must not have gotten nominated — or we must not have gotten nominated,” she says. “So I called my manager, Bobby — cause Bobby’s good with bad news — to see what was going on. And then he told me all the nominations, and I just started crying.”
So why no note? Following up with Gaga’s publicist, The Los Angeles Times reports that Carino did leave a note — Gaga just didn’t see it.
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