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The Brutalist and Emilia Perez’s voice-cloning controversies make AI the new awards season battleground


Two leading contenders for Oscars this year have revealed use of artificial intelligence in the editing suite – will it affect their chances?

Jancsó, a Hungarian speaker, said that while Brody’s mother was an émigré from Hungary in real life, “coaching” and re-recording via ADR (automated dialogue replacement) with both the original actors and stand-ins “just didn’t work”. Photograph: PRIt also emerged that AI cloning was used to enhance the singing voice of Emilia Pérez ’s Karla Sofía Gascón, in the trans gangster musical directed by Jacques Audiard. Conversely Heretic, the horror movie starring Hugh Grant, has taken a radical anti-AI stance, with its end credits including the message: “No generative AI was used in the making of this film.”

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