Lady Gaga is sharing her initial thoughts on receiving two Oscar nominations for her work in the movie A Star Is Born.
The 32-year-old entertainer was nominated for both Best Actress and Best Original Song for co-writing “Shallow.”
Gaga told The New York Times that she slept in and missed the nominations announcement, but she found out about the nominations at around 8:30am PST thanks to a call with her manager Bobby Campbell.
“I’ve been trying to get some sleep because I’m on showbiz time,” Gaga said. “I woke up around 8:30 and I didn’t know anything about it.” When she heard the news she says she “just burst into tears.”
Gaga says she was able to sleep through all the congratulatory calls and texts she received in the morning.
“The ones that mean the most to me are the ones that come from my family,” she said about the messages from her loved ones. “These are not Oscar nominations for me, these are Oscar nominations for the Germanottas. I come from an Italian-immigrant family, and this feels like a very big win for them. This film was a lot of hard work, and I wouldn’t know that hard work if I didn’t know the hard work of the lineage of my family.”
A Star Is Born has eight total nominations at the Oscars, including one for Best Picture.