Oscars: New rules announced - AI actors and scripts cannot win awards
By David Mouriquand
Euronews
Mon, May 4, 2026 at 3:52 AM CDT

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has, for the first
time, addressed the use of artificial intelligence in performances and
scripts for the 2027 Academy Awards.

As part of its annual review of Oscar eligibility rules, the Academy
has tackled the issue of AI.

While the new rules state that "the tools neither help nor harm the
chances of achieving a nomination" and that each branch "will judge the achievement, taking into account the degree to which a human was at the
heart of the creative authorship when choosing which movie to award,"
the Academy are reserving the right to request more information from
the filmmaking team about the nature of the use of AI and "human
authorship."

"Humans have to be at the center of the creative process," said Academy President Lynette Howell Taylor. "As AI continues to evolve, our
conversations around AI will do so along with that. But for the
academy, we are always going to put human authorship at the center of
our awards eligibility process."

When it comes to the eligibility of performances, only roles
"demonstrably performed by humans with their consent" will be
considered.

The organization declined to comment on whether the upcoming
AI-generated Val Kilmer performance would be eligible.

"We will review that on a case-by-case basis," Kramer said. "We, like everybody in our industry and world, we will be assessing this every
year."

Elsewhere, and in a notable shake-up, actors may now be nominated for
multiple performances in the same category. For decades, it was not
possible for an actor to be nominated twice for the same acting
category.

Additionally, the academy revised its longstanding policy that the
category of Best International Feature only consider one film per
country or region, as determined by a local academy-approved selection committee. From now on, a non-English language film can qualify by
winning the top prize at one of several major film festivals, including Berlin, Busan, Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and Venice. A single country
can now also have more than one film nominated in the category, and all
the international films will be credited as the nominee, not the
country or region.

The Academy's changes come as industry tensions continue to grow. More
and more A-listers are addressing the existential threat that AI poses, especially in the face of AI-generated actors making headlines.

They also coincide with recent comments made by Evangeline Lilly, who
has criticised Disney for firing Marvel employees, largely from the
visual development team, as part of company-wide layoffs.

This has led to speculation the company may be pivoting to AI for its
special effects, although Marvel have made no official announcement
confirming this.

Lilly, who starred in Marvel's Ant-Man films, as well as appearing in Avengers: Endgame, took to Instagram to accuse Disney of turning its
back on the people who built the MCU's success.

"I reached out to my good friend Andy Park, who was the genius behind
creating the original Wasp super-suit and concept drawings, and I said,
'Is this true? Is this really what's happening?' He said, 'Yeah, it's
true.'"

She continued: "I can't quite believe that... that Disney has let go of
the artists who brought the Marvel Universe to life through their
genius and that the people who invented these characters and who
designed them are being replaced by AI. AI that will take their designs
and take what they created and use it to create iterations of that. I
am so sorry, Andy. I am so sorry to every one of the artists who were
let go."

Lilly wrote in her Instagram caption: "Disney, SHAME ON YOU for turning
your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw
them away," before questioning the laws surrounding replacing human
workers with AI.

"Where are the laws that REMOVE all human art from the AI bank?!?" she
asked. "Why do they get to steal our brilliance and use it to make
executives rich while the artists responsible for feeding their robots
go hungry?? Disgusting. California lawmakers...where are you?!?!?"

The 99th Oscars will be held on Sunday 14 March 2027.


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On May 4, 2026 at 10:26:40 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

Oscars: New rules announced - AI actors and scripts cannot win awards
By David Mouriquand
Euronews
Mon, May 4, 2026 at 3:52 AM CDT

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has, for the first
time, addressed the use of artificial intelligence in performances and scripts for the 2027 Academy Awards.

As part of its annual review of Oscar eligibility rules, the Academy
has tackled the issue of AI.

While the new rules state that "the tools neither help nor harm the
chances of achieving a nomination" and that each branch "will judge the achievement, taking into account the degree to which a human was at the heart of the creative authorship when choosing which movie to award,"
the Academy are reserving the right to request more information from
the filmmaking team about the nature of the use of AI and "human authorship."

"Humans have to be at the center of the creative process," said Academy President Lynette Howell Taylor. "As AI continues to evolve, our conversations around AI will do so along with that. But for the
academy, we are always going to put human authorship at the center of
our awards eligibility process."

When it comes to the eligibility of performances, only roles
"demonstrably performed by humans with their consent" will be
considered.

The organization declined to comment on whether the upcoming
AI-generated Val Kilmer performance would be eligible.

"We will review that on a case-by-case basis," Kramer said. "We, like everybody in our industry and world, we will be assessing this every
year."

If it's a performance that's done by a human, but then had a different
likeness pasted over them by AI, does that count? Like they did in ROGUE ONE
to bring Tarkin back to life and to bring back a 19-year-old version of Princess Leia. They had human actors do the roles, then mapped artificial likenesses of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher over the actors' bodies.



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On 5/4/2026 2:04 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On May 4, 2026 at 10:26:40 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

Oscars: New rules announced - AI actors and scripts cannot win awards
By David Mouriquand
Euronews
Mon, May 4, 2026 at 3:52 AM CDT

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has, for the first
time, addressed the use of artificial intelligence in performances and
scripts for the 2027 Academy Awards.

As part of its annual review of Oscar eligibility rules, the Academy
has tackled the issue of AI.

While the new rules state that "the tools neither help nor harm the
chances of achieving a nomination" and that each branch "will judge the
achievement, taking into account the degree to which a human was at the
heart of the creative authorship when choosing which movie to award,"
the Academy are reserving the right to request more information from
the filmmaking team about the nature of the use of AI and "human
authorship."

"Humans have to be at the center of the creative process," said Academy
President Lynette Howell Taylor. "As AI continues to evolve, our
conversations around AI will do so along with that. But for the
academy, we are always going to put human authorship at the center of
our awards eligibility process."

When it comes to the eligibility of performances, only roles
"demonstrably performed by humans with their consent" will be
considered.

The organization declined to comment on whether the upcoming
AI-generated Val Kilmer performance would be eligible.

"We will review that on a case-by-case basis," Kramer said. "We, like
everybody in our industry and world, we will be assessing this every
year."

If it's a performance that's done by a human, but then had a different likeness pasted over them by AI, does that count? Like they did in ROGUE ONE to bring Tarkin back to life and to bring back a 19-year-old version of Princess Leia. They had human actors do the roles, then mapped artificial likenesses of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher over the actors' bodies.

You can go all the way back to LOTR, wherein one of the most compelling characters was Gollum, i.e., Andy Serkis wearing motion-capture.
There's no bright line being drawn here, just crowing for "humanity".



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On 2026-05-04 18:04:34 +0000, BTR1701 said:

On May 4, 2026 at 10:26:40 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

Oscars: New rules announced - AI actors and scripts cannot win awards
By David Mouriquand
Euronews
Mon, May 4, 2026 at 3:52 AM CDT

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has, for the first
time, addressed the use of artificial intelligence in performances and
scripts for the 2027 Academy Awards.

As part of its annual review of Oscar eligibility rules, the Academy
has tackled the issue of AI.

While the new rules state that "the tools neither help nor harm the
chances of achieving a nomination" and that each branch "will judge the
achievement, taking into account the degree to which a human was at the
heart of the creative authorship when choosing which movie to award,"
the Academy are reserving the right to request more information from
the filmmaking team about the nature of the use of AI and "human
authorship."

"Humans have to be at the center of the creative process," said Academy
President Lynette Howell Taylor. "As AI continues to evolve, our
conversations around AI will do so along with that. But for the
academy, we are always going to put human authorship at the center of
our awards eligibility process."

When it comes to the eligibility of performances, only roles
"demonstrably performed by humans with their consent" will be
considered.

The organization declined to comment on whether the upcoming
AI-generated Val Kilmer performance would be eligible.

"We will review that on a case-by-case basis," Kramer said. "We, like
everybody in our industry and world, we will be assessing this every
year."

If it's a performance that's done by a human, but then had a different likeness pasted over them by AI, does that count? Like they did in ROGUE ONE to bring Tarkin back to life and to bring back a 19-year-old version of Princess Leia. They had human actors do the roles, then mapped artificial likenesses of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher over the actors' bodies.

Yeah and that movie with Robert DeNiro (directed by none other than
Scorsese I believe) when he was acting but they used his younger face.
That's where the "case-by-case" consideration comes in I guess.


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On 2026-05-04 20:48:58 +0000, moviePig said:

On 5/4/2026 2:04 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On May 4, 2026 at 10:26:40 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
wrote:

Oscars: New rules announced - AI actors and scripts cannot win awards
By David Mouriquand
Euronews
Mon, May 4, 2026 at 3:52 AM CDT

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has, for the first
time, addressed the use of artificial intelligence in performances and
scripts for the 2027 Academy Awards.

As part of its annual review of Oscar eligibility rules, the Academy
has tackled the issue of AI.

While the new rules state that "the tools neither help nor harm the
chances of achieving a nomination" and that each branch "will judge the
achievement, taking into account the degree to which a human was at the
heart of the creative authorship when choosing which movie to award,"
the Academy are reserving the right to request more information from
the filmmaking team about the nature of the use of AI and "human
authorship."

"Humans have to be at the center of the creative process," said Academy
President Lynette Howell Taylor. "As AI continues to evolve, our
conversations around AI will do so along with that. But for the
academy, we are always going to put human authorship at the center of
our awards eligibility process."

When it comes to the eligibility of performances, only roles
"demonstrably performed by humans with their consent" will be
considered.

The organization declined to comment on whether the upcoming
AI-generated Val Kilmer performance would be eligible.

"We will review that on a case-by-case basis," Kramer said. "We, like
everybody in our industry and world, we will be assessing this every
year."

If it's a performance that's done by a human, but then had a different
likeness pasted over them by AI, does that count? Like they did in ROGUE ONE >> to bring Tarkin back to life and to bring back a 19-year-old version of
Princess Leia. They had human actors do the roles, then mapped artificial
likenesses of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher over the actors' bodies.

You can go all the way back to LOTR, wherein one of the most compelling characters was Gollum, i.e., Andy Serkis wearing motion-capture.
There's no bright line being drawn here, just crowing for "humanity".

Motion capture goes back way before Lord of the Rings. :-)

Even way back in the early Disney days (and before), the animators were
using film of real people and animals to trace the animated character
over the top to get life-like movement, etc.



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super70s

BTR1701

If it's a performance that's done by a human, but then had a different likeness pasted over them by AI, does that count? Like they did in ROGUE ONE
to bring Tarkin back to life and to bring back a 19-year-old version of Princess Leia. They had human actors do the roles, then mapped artificial likenesses of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher over the actors' bodies.

Yeah and that movie with Robert DeNiro (directed by none other than
Scorsese I believe) when he was acting but they used his younger face. That's where the "case-by-case" consideration comes in I guess.

"The Irishman"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irishman

There's a new Scorsese and DeNiro flick coming out where DeNiro plays
two characters and interacts with himself but the two character's scenes
are filmed separately with SFX "splicing" them together after and DeNiro
uses prosthetics and makeup for one of the two characters he's playing.

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super70s@super70s.invalid wrote:

Oscars: New rules announced - AI actors and scripts cannot win awards

Well, so much for Hail Mary sweeping the awards...

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Democrats and the liberal media hate President Trump more than they
love this country.


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