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The Academy has updated the Oscar rules and restricted the use of AI

04 May 2026

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The award organizers have made significant changes to the rules. The new rules affect acting categories, international films, and the use of technology.

The Academy has updated the Oscar rules and restricted the use of AI

The Oscars. Source: Getty

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced updates to the Oscar rules ahead of the 99th ceremony, which will take place in 2027. Among the key changes is a ban on fully AI-generated acting performances and screenplays: only projects in which humans made a key contribution will be eligible for awards.

One of the most notable changes is to the acting nominations: now, a single actor can be nominated multiple times in the same category for different roles. The Best International Feature Film category has also been reformed—selection will no longer depend solely on country of origin, and films that win at major festivals will be able to make the shortlist directly.

These updates reflect the growing influence of technology and the globalization of the industry. The Academy emphasizes that it reserves the right to verify the extent of human involvement in projects that use AI, in order to maintain the awards’ focus on authorship and live performance.

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04 May 09:38 #

It's logical! It would be amazing if I could. But I think they will and they will use AI anyway.

04 May 09:50 #

I may be too categorical, but in my opinion, AI has no place in the film industry at all, we have already seen what kind of ending the OSD gave us, where the brothers used AI to write. So that's great news.

04 May 19:15 #

@wsmiller26: has it been confirmed that AI was used in writing the plot of the osd? I've heard theories that some tab in the photo from the Duffers' laptop looked like a gpt chat or something, but this is a far-fetched theory. If I'm wrong, could you enlighten me about the use of AI by the brothers?

04 May 20:04 #

@sai_: yes, this is not a theory about the laptop tab, this is literally a frame from a documentary that they also shot (besides, as far as I know, there is no confirmation, but I prefer to believe in AI than that the brothers forgot a cloud of plot threads that they themselves had riveted and therefore left a bunch of plot holes (and this despite the fact that overall, I'm relatively happy with the ending (though from the point of view of a relative happy ending, not logic). If it's interesting and you've watched the osd, then I've been painting the main plot holes under the final episode, which I noticed, you can find if you need to.

04 May 09:54 #

Everything is right. In general, the use of AI in profitable creativity should not be welcomed.

04 May 10:32 #

A separate nomination was not introduced for Rocky 🥲 the guy will remain without an Oscar

04 May 12:01 #

I wonder how they're going to prove that the script was written by AI, and that's how it is now (most of them)scripts are written in such a way that there are cliches on cliches😂

04 May 12:01 #

Of course, all this sounds reasonable and correct. But... I really want some project with an AI script to win an Oscar. This will be a great surreal highlight of this fun award.

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04 May 15:33 #

And how will they determine if AI was used or not? It says that requests will be made. And they were told the truth. Eventually, it will all end in some kind of grandiose scandal.
AI has long been used in Hollywood when writing scripts. The last strike was about that, too.

04 May 19:30 #

@Kookaburra: There are detection programs that detect the use of AI (but they are not very accurate either). Although, I think, just as AI is developing, these programs will also develop.

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05 May 02:20 #

@stellary: Hollywood has already bypassed this. Now there are special writers there who check and rework the script after AI.

05 May 07:45 #

@Kookaburra: editors, in short))). After them, it's really harder to identify the authorship of AI. And the funniest thing will be if the algorithms determine the real author's texts as the creation of their counterparts.

04 May 17:23 #

I think this is a fair decision. 🙂

04 May 17:33 #

They would also introduce mandatory screening of films for members of the academy, otherwise in recent years I've only been catching the cringe that some people didn't even watch the films, but somehow voted at the same time.

04 May 19:21 #

@mrbradshaw: they introduced it last year. Before that, the jury was given an "honest word" that they had watched, and since the last Oscar, a viewing rule has been introduced. It seems like they upload all the movies to some kind of closed platform and then sort out by name who watched and who didn't.

04 May 19:36 #

@stellary: Oh, I get it, so we've solved this issue, thank you.
Of course, this does not negate the fact that it could have come to this before.

04 May 20:34 #

@stellary: and unfortunately, no one prevents them from turning on a movie and going to bed, for example.🤔

04 May 20:37 #

@terryleedp: Wow, especially how she sometimes falls asleep to some movies 😂

04 May 20:44 #

@terryleedp: That's right. you can also put x4 on or without sound. But it seems to me that whether they watched it or not, the result of the vote will not change much. The majority of the jury votes according to how they were asked, or based on personal preferences for the actors :)

05 May 07:48 #

@stellary: It seems to have happened after the scandal, when one of the jury members told reporters in an interview that three of them had not watched the second Dune because they found the first boring. Accordingly, they ignored her at the vote.

04 May 19:40 #

Oh, the series with Valerie Cherish is not nominated... :((

04 May 20:34 #

Whether AI was used in the scenario will be checked through AI

04 May 20:45 #

@terryleedp: He sees his own from afar 😁

04 May 22:57 #

How will this protect children from being molested in Hollywood?

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