Lady Gaga Got Her Oscar, Thanks 100th Person In Any Room, Bradley Cooper, In Tearful Speech

And co-nominee Jennifer Hudson cheered her on…

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by Sophie Wilkinson |
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Lady Gaga won her Oscar! Along with Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt and Anthony Rossomando, she picked up the Academy Award for Best Song for Shallow, which features in the remake of the classic music love story A Star Is Born.

When the award was announced at the podium by _Black Panthe_r’s Chadwick Boseman and Crazy Rich Asians’ Constance Wu, Gaga immediately hugged her sister Natali Germanotta, who was her +1 in the absence of her recent ex, talent agent Christian Carino.

Then, she turned to Bradley Cooper, her 100th person in any room, and hugged him, while his girlfriend, the model Irina Shayk looked on - beaming, might we add. Crying a little bit, Gaga took to the stage with her three co-winners, while co-nominee Jennifer Hudson, who’d literally just lost out to Gaga and co, geared up to give the star a pep talk.

Looking like she was about to stop and break into full tears at any moment, the shocked (but perhaps not surprised) singer-actress gave a shout out to her co-writers, then Natali, calling her ‘my soulmate, I love you’, then her parents, and then, of course, Bradley. Gaga said ‘Bradley, there is not a single person on this planet who could have sang this song with me, but you. Thank you for believing in us.’

Addressing the crowd at home, so emotionally that the words seemed far less defensive than they do when typed out right now, she then said: ‘This is hard work, I’ve worked hard for a long time’, adding: ‘It’s not about how many times you get rejected or you fall down or are beaten up, it’s about how many times you stand up and are brave and you keep on going.’

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Gaga, FYI, has already been nominated for Best Song, for the emotional ’Til It Happens To You, which is all about surviving sexual assault, and was on the soundtrack for _The Hunting Gam_e, a documentary about rape on campus. She’d performed it at 2016's Oscars, before-#MeToo was a big thing in Hollywood, with dozens of survivors coming forward and holding hands with each other.

Gaga's first Oscars win, however, was later followed by a rendition of Shallow with Bradley Cooper that’s being hailed as incredibly sexy by ardent shippers of the pair.

It doesn’t matter that the roles of famous singer and peppy ingenue were reversed from the film, with Gaga becoming the maestro, clearly helping a patchy Cooper along with his trembling vocals. Because, as they say - Lady Gaga, we mean - there could be 99 people in the room, but if one snatches up a microphone stand and plods somewhere with it as he holds it, before placing it down so he can sit very close to Lady Gaga, and then sings so close to her that she could probably catch a whiff of the exact type of goat’s cheese he had in his pre-Oscars canapés, and that person is Bradley Cooper, well, the performance is dictionary-definition ‘steamy’. Watch it here!

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