 As a result, Streisand offered to resume her role, but Oscar producers had already asked Celine Dion to do it instead.Streisand had been told that Dion had already started rehearsing the song along with "Because You Loved Me", which she was also set to perform.The director of the Oscars, Louis Horvitz, said that "Barbra called us after saying no several times, but the ship had sailed".