Academy Awards bans AI performances from Oscars eligibility
Tech Academy Awards bans AI performances from Oscars eligibility The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the United States-based honorary organization behind the Academy Awards, on Friday published new rules stating that artificial intelligence-generated performances and screenplays will not qualify for Oscars. On May 1, the Academy announced several significant rule changes for the 99th Oscars, scheduled for March 2027, including two notable additions that address the controversial topic of AI. Specifically, for all the acting categories, only roles “credited in the film‘s legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” will be considered eligible; while in the writing categories—namely, ’best adapted screenplay‘ and ’best original screenplay—the Academy stated that “the rules codify that screenplays must be human-authored to be eligible.” Other prominent categories, such as ‘best director,’ ‘best cinematography,’ and ‘best film editing,’ were presumably deemed beyond the capabilities of current AI, and thus no new rules were added regarding their use. However, for ‘best visual effects,’ a category in which AI can, and already is being applied, the Academy chose not to officially prohibit work that uses the technology. A previous iteration of the rules, published by the Academys Board of Governors on April 23, was more lenient to AI, stating