The organization behind the Oscars is for the first time addressing the eligibility of films that use artificial intelligence in new rules for the 2027 Academy Awards. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday released updates across many categories, stressing the importance of human authorship while not banning AI.<\/p>\n
The new rules also include significant changes to the much-criticized international film category, expanding eligibility to include films that won top qualifying awards from prestigious film festivals like Cannes, Venice and Toronto.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we do every year, we made a lot of, we think, really smart and progressive changes,\u201d film academy CEO Bill Kramer told The Associated Press. \u201cObviously, as the academy becomes more global, we need to think about how we are inviting international films into the Oscars conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAI and the Oscars<\/p>\n
As part of its annual review of Oscar eligibility rules, the academy is tackling one of the global filmmaking community’s biggest concerns: generative artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
The new rules state that \u201cthe tools neither help nor harm the chances of achieving a nomination\u201d and that the academy and each branch \u201cwill 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.\u201d They\u2019re also reserving the right to request more information from the filmmaking team about the nature of the use of AI and \u201chuman authorship.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHumans have to be at the center of the creative process,\u201d said academy president Lynette Howell Taylor. \u201cAs 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
When it comes to the eligibility of performances, only roles \u201cdemonstrably performed by humans with their consent\u201d will be considered. The organization declined to comment on whether the upcoming AI-rendered Val Kilmer performance would be eligible as the filmmakers have not yet submitted it for consideration.<\/p>\n
A likeness is not an actor, for one, but it might also depend on how Kilmer is credited in the film: As Val Kilmer or something else? One could also take Andy Serkis as Gollum as an example of a human collaborating with technology for the final performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will review that on a case-by-case basis,\u201d Kramer said. \u201cWe, like everybody in our industry and world, we will be assessing this every year.\u201d<\/p>\n
There is less ambiguity in the screenplay categories, where the rules state that \u201cscreenplays must be human-authored to be eligible.\u201d<\/p>\n
The film academy has often had to review its standards to meet the technological advances of the moment, whether it be sound, color or computer generated imagery (CGI).<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSweeping changes to international film eligibility<\/p>\n
As its membership has grown much more international, there have been increasing calls for an overhaul to the international film category, which had been continually criticized as unjust, outdated and subject to political interference. That’s led to independent and dissident filmmakers often pointedly not being submitted to represent the country they\u2019re from.<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s Palme d\u2019Or-winner at Cannes, for instance, was \u201cIt Was Just an Accident,\u201d from Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, was not submitted as Iran\u2019s official entry for the 98th Academy Awards, but France\u2019s. <\/p>\n
Under the new rules, \u201cIt Was Just an Accident\u201d could be considered eligible because it won the top Cannes prize and not because a country chose to submit it. In addition to the Palme d\u2019Or at Cannes, the Golden Lion at Venice and the Platform award at Toronto, other festivals with eligible qualifying awards will also include the Berlin International Film Festival\u2019s Golden Bear, the Busan International Film Festival\u2019s best film award and the Sundance Film Festival\u2019s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize.<\/p>\n
All the international films will also be credited as the nominee, not the country or region, and the award will be accepted by the filmmaker. The director\u2019s name will also be listed on the Oscar plaque, \u201cafter the film title and country if applicable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat really reflects our desire to honor the film\u2019s creative team. That is how we approach other categories,\u201d Kramer said. \u201cAnd as we become more global, as the filmmaking community becomes more global. I think it\u2019s really about a focus on the filmmakers and less a focus of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\tActors can now be nominated for more than one award in a category<\/p>\n
The acting branch is catching up with the rest of the academy in allowing an actor to be nominated for more than one performance in a single category. If, say, this year\u2019s best actor winner Michael B. Jordan has two extraordinary leading performances in two different films in 2026, he could possibly get two best actor nominations.<\/p>\n
This is standard practice in the other categories. In 2001, at the 73rd Oscars, Steven Soderbergh was nominated for best director for both \u201cTraffic\u201d and \u201cErin Brockovich,\u201d winning the prize for the former.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnd about those original songs in the end credits<\/p>\n
The organization also clarified the eligibility of original songs used during a film\u2019s end credits. For songs in which the first music cue plays over the end credits, that song must overlap with at least the film\u2019s last 15 seconds before the credits roll in order to be considered eligible. This year\u2019s original song winner, \u201cGolden\u201d was a key part of \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d and used several times throughout the film.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe never stop looking at ways to improve our eligibility process,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The organization behind the Oscars is for the first time addressing the eligibility of films that use artificial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,5365,1453,1592,25,1450],"class_list":{"0":"post-24746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ap-entertainment","10":"tag-ap-u-s-news","11":"tag-ap-world-news","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence","13":"tag-associated-press"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}