What was award season before Lady Gaga took center stage? I don't even remember at this point, because she continues to slay the red carpet and her acceptance speeches. At the Critics' Choice Awards on Sunday night in Los Angeles, Gaga showed up wearing an angelic light pink gown. She was nominated yet again for her role as Ally Maine in A Star Is Born, and she truly looked like the epitome of stardom. During the show, Gaga won the award for best song ("Shallow") after winning the Golden Globe a week ago. See photos of her oozing Old Hollywood glamour ahead, and then catch up on what everyone wore on the Critics' Choice red carpet ahead of the show.<doc-sep>If there’s one performer who has become synonymous with outlandish fashion, it’s Lady Gaga. After all the meat dresses and ombré couture, we’ve come to expect a certain amount of drama from Gaga’s outfit choices, but even the most flamboyant dressers occasionally crave simplicity. Last night’s Critics’ Choice Awards offered the star an opportunity to embrace her inner minimalist. In a blush silk crepe gown from Calvin Klein by Appointment, she did just that, shutting down the red carpet. As the night’s big winner, Gaga took home Best Song and shared Best Actress honors with family friend Glenn Close. Radiant onstage with her hair in platinum waves, 10-carat diamond studs by Djula Jewelry, and pared down makeup courtesy of Marc Jacobs Beauty, she stayed true to the less is more philosophy that defined her A Star is Born press tour. A smart style strategy that has helped to keep attentions focused on her performance, the relatively subdued dresses have been a constant as she’s racked up every major award of the season.<doc-sep>UPDATED with video: After two wins at the Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday – a co-win for Best Actress, and Best Song in A Star is Born – Lady Gaga told press backstage she was “speechless” because it was her “greatest dream to be an actor.” She once gave up acting, “but here I am now with Glenn Close,” she said, noting her co-winner in the category. “She’s legendary.” Gaga also said in her remarks backstage at the show (watch them above) that she plans to do a lot more acting in future. Doubling down on her accolades, and following her Globes win for the song “Shallow” in A Star is Born, she told press, “I will definitely continue acting,” she said. “I love acting. I loved acting on American Horror Story as the Countess for Ryan Murphy, and I loved acting in A Star is Born for Bradley Cooper. It was a tremendous experience, and I want to continue to do more, but I am a bit spoiled. I’ve had some fantastic directors and fantastic visionaries.” Blinking from the flashing of many backstage cameras, Gaga also promised more music in future, and said A Star is Born has affected her that too. “Absolutely, it [the film] will influence my future music,” she said. “But that’s not to say I haven’t already written some music, so it will be a mixture of both. But I’ve learned so very much and I hope that I will always be a student. I think that that is where you stop being a great artist when you start believing that there’s nothing left to learn. There is always something to learn and I always want to be a student and I think that’s how you master your craft, by learning and being a sponge.” But any future plans with Cooper will remain “in a locked box” for now, Gaga said. “I will always be supportive of him in whatever way he chooses to go, and I feel the same way from him. We talk about future films for me, he gives me advice. He’s wonderful, but as far as future collaborations, I guess that’s going to stay a secret.” In her acceptance speech for Best Actress onstage she seemed overwhelmed, saying, “I’m so honored by this. I went to places in my mind and my heart that I did not know existed.” Then she got the audience laughing as the music began to signify her time was up and she said, “It’s OK, I can still do this with a piano background.” Earlier in the evening, accepting for Best Song, she also thanked Cooper effusively. “This means the world to us,” she said. “I’ll never forget when we wrote this song together with Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt.” Starring as up-and-coming singer Ally, alongside Cooper as addled country singer Jackson Maine, Gaga’s song “Shallow” has become something of an anthem for fans. “I’ll never forget playing it for Bradley for the first time and seeing his face light up and then singing it live together, take after take,” she said onstage. “I was mesmerized both as myself and as my character Ally. I was basking in the brilliant transformation of Bradley into Jackson Maine, singing on his stage, and overwhelmed by the storytelling and power in his voice.” Check out her backstage comments:<doc-sep>But the Critics' Choice award for Best Actress was a different sort of win. It aired on TV on a major station just like the Golden Globes had, for one. It also gave Lady Gaga a win on a rather large stage, and it came with a little bit of theatricality and drama, thanks to the tie. Lady Gaga took her moment and ran with it, spending several minutes thanking everyone she could think of after admitting she "spilled water all over" herself.<doc-sep>
The Oscar race for Best Actress is now even more heated. Lady Gaga and Glenn Close tied for Best Actress at the 24th annual Critics’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, giving both an extra edge for the upcoming Academy Award nominations. Close, who earned a statue for The Wife, was called onstage first by presenter Willem Dafoe, who announced the award would be a tie. Gaga, who won for her work in A Star Is Born, broke down in tears as she took the stage to accept the award Close’s speech. “I’m so very happy that you won this this evening,” Gaga told Close as the pair embraced. “This is a tremendous honor.” Lady Gaga tears up after tying for best actress with Glenn Close #CriticsChoice https://t.co/slZIvVY9SM pic.twitter.com/vsAA75S39D — Variety (@Variety) January 14, 2019 Close recently earned the Golden Globe for her performance and thanked her fellow nominees during the Critics’ Choice Awards, who included Olivia Colman and Melissa McCarthy. “I was thinking that, you know, the world kind of pits us against each other in this profession and I know that from all the women in this category, and I think I can speak for all the women in this room, we celebrate each other,” the actress told the audience. “We are proud to be in this room together.” Lady Gaga also won Best Song for “Shallow” and took time during her speech to thank her director and co-star Bradley Cooper. “Bradley, you are a magical filmmaker,” the singer said. “And you are just as magical of a human being.” She added, “I’ve never had an experience with a director or an actor like I had with you and I will cherish it forever. You seamlessly were both the love of my life and the man behind the camera.” Gaga’s speech ran long as music began to play her offstage. “Don’t worry I can still do this with a piano background,” she quipped. The duo were the second tie of the evening, following Amy Adams and Patricia Arquette, who shared the honor of Best Actress in a Limited Series for Sharp Objects and Escape at Dannemora respectively.