The academy may require future Oscar posts to reveal its use of artificial intelligence tools, has IndieWire learned – but what does it mean when AI is, yes, everywhere?
Amount reported that eight times Oscar-nominated ”A complete unknown“Used AI in its post -production process. Publication, strangely enough, via Australia-based Rising Sun Pictures’ came submission for Emerging Technology Award by 2025 Visual Effects Society Awards For “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.” When the company quoted Revize, its proprietary machine learning character tool, in its application, it added that Revize was also used at James Mangold’s Bob Dylan Biopic.
A person who is familiar with the project told IndieWire that Mangold used AI on film. “The technology was used to help with three short wide images on a motorcycle, not involve performance or creative improvements,” they said. “This technology is common to make stunt people similar to their actors in movies. The VFX plant implemented this specific methodology as a tool for the artists to use only for these three shots -this type of VFX stunt facial exchange images have been used for decades. “
Also nominated for Emerging Technology Award on VES is “Dune: Part two”, which used machine learning model Nuke Copycat to automate the extension of a blue shade to all the eyes of the actors who played the Fremen, the native people in Arrakis.
With “Emilia Pérez” and “The Brutalist” this gives the total number of current Best Picture Oscar -Nominated with confirmed use of AI tools to four. Currently, Oscar submission has only optional information for AI use.
Sources tell Indieview that when the academy prepares its annual review of its rules this spring, the current AI scandals are likely to pursue the issue of compulsory AI disclosure. However, trying to draw an AI line can be meaningless when the term itself is so all-encompassing.
Would you consider the selfie you took this morning with AI? If it was taken on an iPhone that was done in the last three years, it is likely that it is more AI generated than any movie with an Oscar nomination. It is built into neural engines on Apple chips, which means that amateur photos can be nicer and evenly exposed.
Does machine learning, which provide efficiency to a repetitive, time -consuming process, counts as AI? In the “Dune” franchise, the spice makes the eyes of the characters blue. Should the VFX team that worked on the sequel not to use software that could better identify and surround the eyes, which makes it much easier to convert their color?
How about audio software on “Avatar: The Way of Water”? It used AI to differentiate sound (a character’s voice, wind, footprints, etc.), which saves James Cameron’s audio team weeks with work to eliminate unwanted water sounds on the production track. Revize was first used in Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 “Elvis”, another Oscar-nominated music biopics, to place star Austin Butler in old pictures.
Like our iPhones, AI is incorporated into sophisticated software that film productions use daily. The academy cannot ask the thousands of crew members to know and approve the programs and plug-ins they use.
Resecher, which is used on “Emilia Perez” and “The Brutalist”, is an AI tool-but it is not far away from the usual practice for automated dialogue compensation that improves or clarifies the dialogue in post-production.
Creative is more uncomfortable with generative AI, which is based on tools that create data sets by analyzing existing works. The “brutalist” director Brady Corbet denied that an architectural consultant who worked with production designer Judy Becker used Midjourney to draw buildings that inspired those used in the film’s final sequence. “Judy Becker and her team did not use AI to create or make any of the buildings,” Corbet said in a statement.
Yes – and it is also true that “The Brutalist” used Genai to create two concept photos made to look like the digital reproduction of the 1980s; Then that picture was hand drawn. If Genai cannot be used in the concept phase, does all the department heads have mood boards Hew to 100 percent organic, non-Ii?
Brian Welk contributed to this report.
