Lady Gaga took home the original song statue for "Shallow," the show-stopping centerpiece of "A Star Is Born."
She arrived backstage with members of her songwriting team Andrew Wyatt, Anthony Rossomando and Mark Ronson, with Ronson stepping in to carry the train of her voluminous periwinkle dress.
The pop star deflected an initial question about working with Bradley Cooper, her co-star and the film's director, pointing out that her win was for original song rather than for acting.
"He was incredible as a director and I loved working with him, he made me a better actress," she began. "But what we are really excited to be on this stage for is how much he believed in this song as a vehicle for storytelling in this film."
She added that they'd talked backstage about how the song is antithetical to what is expected of a commercial song.
"It doesn't really quite fit in to what you would think of as a commercial song and still people connected to it," she said. "And that means a lot to us."
She also mentioned Cooper's insistence that the music scenes be as authentic as possible.
"As a first time director, Bradley really knocked it out of the park with the music," she said. "He wanted it to be sung and recorded live. Most, if not all, of what you hear on the soundtrack to this film was sung live on camera on set."
She was asked repeatedly about whether she drew inspiration from previous iterations of the film which she denied.
"I knew that I wanted this to be completely, not only brand new, but completely serve the story that Bradley and [screenwriter] Eric Roth wanted to tell," she said. "The screenplay was brilliant. I was so, so inspired by the vision and when we worked on this, we worked hand in hand with Bradley to create something that would be sufficient for this story, something that would move it forward. This is really the moment in the film where their love begins to truly blossom. And I couldn't be more proud to be standing here with my friends."
She was also asked whether she took her performance cues from any of the actresses that came before her.
"It's a privilege really to be a part of a film that already has a legacy," she said. "To create something new while also honoring what happened in the past and how great they were."
