The nod for “The Dead Dance,” co-written with Andrew Watt and Henry Walter Russell, puts Gaga in contention for her first win at the main Emmys ceremony.
Lady Gaga has picked up her fifth Emmy nomination—this time in the Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics category for “The Dead Dance,” a track from the Tim Burton series Wednesday. She shares the nomination with co-writers Andrew Watt and Henry Walter Russell. The song appears in a field crowded with comedies and genre fare, including Andrew Bird’s “Need Someone” from The Pitt, and entries from Hacks, The Boys, South Park, and Spider-Noir.
Gaga is already an Emmy winner on a technicality: she took home a Sports Emmy in 2025 for her performance of “Hold My Hand” before that year’s Super Bowl. But she has yet to win at the Primetime Emmys, the prize that would complete the conventional EGOT. Her previous four nominations went unrewarded at the main ceremony.
Elsewhere in music categories for the 2026 Emmys, Raphael Saadiq was nominated for scoring the historical docuseries High Horse: The Black Cowboy, and Pluribus collected multiple nods for music direction, composition, and supervision.
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