Academy To Make It Mandatory For Films To Mention AI Usage After The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez Controversies: Report

🔴The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is reportedly making it mandatory for filmmakers to mention the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) in their movies, reported Variety.

This rule has been made due to an ongoing controversy surrounding the use of AI in Oscar-nominated films like The Brutalist and Emilia Perez.

The proposed change's details are likely to be included in the Oscar 2026 rules, due in April.

🉐Variety quoted a source saying, “The Academy currently offers an optional disclosure form for AI use, but Governors and Branch executive committees are now investigating how AI is used in each branch with an eye toward making disclosure mandatory in the 2026 Oscars rules, which are expected to be published in April. The Academy’s SciTech Council is working on recommended language."

The Brutalist and Emilia Perez🍌 which have lead the maximum nominations in the 2025 Oscars race, are embroiled in controversies due to usage of AI.

The Brutalist faced backlash after the film's editor Dávid Jancsó, in an interview with Red Shark News in January, admitted that the filmmakers used AI to enhance performances.

Emilia Perez꧃ also reportedly used the AI tool to enhance Karla Sofia Gascón’s vocal range.

An AI tool called Respeecher was used to adjust the Hungarian dialogue spoken by the lead actors, Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist✤. After the controversy, director Brady Corbet told Deadline that the actors' performances were natural and they worked for months with a dialect coach to get the perfect accents. He further explained that the technology was only used to improve certain vowels and letters in the Hungarian dialogue for accuracy. Corbet also added that the process was done manually by the sound team and Respeecher, for the authenticity of another language.

AI has also been used in films like A Complete Unknown, Deadpool & Wolverine, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3, as per the report.

A spokesperson from Searchlight Pictures, the team behind A Complete Unknownꩲ said, “The technology was used to assist in 3 brief wide shots on a motorcycle, not involving performance or creative enhancements. This technology is commonplace for making stunt people resemble their actor in films. The VFX facility implemented this specific methodology as a tool for the artists to use for only these 3 shots, these type of VFX stunt face replacement shots have been used for decades."

Jennie Zeiher, president of Rising Sun, said that A Complete Unknown and Deadpool & Wolverine𝔍 utilized Revize but he didn't give any other details.