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Taylor Swift Knocked Off Oscars and Grammys Campaigns Last Night Performing Four Songs at Academy Museum Gala in Front of Top Voters

By Roger Friedman

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We’ll probably see Taylor Swift in the family box this afternoon when Kansas City plays Las Vegas in Sin City.

But last night, Taylor was busy working. She campaigned both Oscar and Grammy voters at the Academy Museum gala in Los Angeles.

In front of dozens of heavy hitter voters from both awards groups, Taylor performed four songs.

The main ones were “I Knew It, I Knew You” from “Toy Story 5” — that was for the Oscars Best Song. And “The Fate of Ophelia” for Grammy voters who can give her Album of the Year for “The Last Showgirl.”

For fun, she threw in two of her favorite oldies — “Blank Space” and “Love Story.”

Taylor got the gig through newish bff Steven Spielberg, who was a chair of the evening.

My guess is she paid for it herself. Anyway, let’s hope she did since the Museum needs funds desperately and can’t afford Taylor’s fees.

In the room, dancing up a storm were so many celebrities from music, film, and fashion that listing them would be futile. Of course, a couple of Kardashians insinuated themselves into the mix. But it was Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Leslie Mann and Judd Apatow, to Amanda Seyfried (the Belle of the Ball because of her surprise appearance in “You Will See Everything”) to Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel.

Taylor should have her nominations — if not her wins — all sewn up this morning. Now she can pop over to Vegas and see hubby Travis win his game.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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