Two leading contenders for Oscars this year have revealed use of artificial intelligence in the editing suite – will it affect their chances?
he use of artificial intelligence could become a ferocious battleground during movie awards season, as at least two major contenders were revealed to have used voice-cloning to enhance actors’ performances., The Brutalist editor Dávid Jancsó said that, in an effort to create Hungarian dialogue so perfect “that not even locals will spot any difference”, Jancsó fed lead actors Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’s voices into AI software, as well as his own.
Jancsó said he then employed an AI tool developed by Respeecher, a Ukraine-based company who were previously involved in the, to add individual sounds and letters to both Brody and Jones’s Hungarian-language dialogue. “Most of their Hungarian dialogue has a part of me talking in there. We were very careful about keeping their performances.
The recent actors’ and writers’ strike were called at least in part over the threat that AI poses to large parts of the film and TV and video game industry, with settlements includingthat he had also been experimenting with AI, using ChatGPT to generate ideas for films by major auteurs, including Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Ingmar Bergman and himself. Writing, “I’M STUNNED”, he added: “Every idea ChatGPT came up with was good. And original. And fleshed out.
In Hollywood’s currently febrile mood over AI, it is hard to estimate the impact these revelations of the technology’s use may have on the currentrace, for which the final nominations are due to be announced on 23 January. Brody is now a strong contender for the best actor award, having won the Golden Globe for best actor in a drama, while Gascón looks likely to be the first out trans actor to be nominated for the best actress Oscar.
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