The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has adjusted the eligibility criteria for films vying for Oscars from 2027 onward.
Films featuring actors generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are now ineligible, as are scripts that aren’t demonstrably human-authored.
Crucially, the rules do not ban AI – generative or otherwise – altogether. The Academy explicitly acknowledged the widespread adoption of generative AI, and has left it to voters to determine whether a film’s creative direction is substantively driven by humans.
Academy president Lynette Howell Taylor framed it simply: “humans have to be at the centre of the creative process”.
The rules were imposed following specific controversies: the 2025 awards season surfaced AI voice modification in The Brutalist, AI voice cloning in Emilia Pérez, and varying degrees of AI use in A Complete Unknown and Dune: Part Two.
