AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars

The organization behind the Academy Awards

released new Oscar rules

on Friday, including several that address the use of generative artificial intelligence.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that only performances “credited in the film’s legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” will be eligible for Academy Awards. Similarly, the academy said that screenplays must be “human-authored” to be eligible.

The Academy also said it has the right to request more information about a film’s AI usage and “human authorship.”

These rule changes come as an independent film is in the works with

an AI-generated version of Val Kilmer

, as AI “actress” Tilly Norwood

keeps making headlines

, and as

new video models

are causing at least a few filmmakers to make sweeping declarations of despair. AI was also one of the main sticking points in

the actors’ and writers’ strikes

back in 2023.

Outside Hollywood, at least one novel has been

pulled by its publisher

due to the apparent use of AI, and other writers’ groups are declaring that AI usage makes work

ineligible for awards

.