Netflix caught up in AI Oscars controversy alongside The Brutalist as Emilia Pérez criticized for using voice enhancement tech

• Oscars frontrunner, The Brutalist, used AI to enhance Hungarian dialogue
• The film’s director, Brady Corbet, has now weighed in on the debate
• Netflix’s Emilia Pérez also uses AI voice enhancement

The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards are revealed later this week, and an AI Oscars controversy is plaguing the headlines. A report of The Brutalist using artificial intelligence is now not the only point of contention as news that Netflix’s Emilia Pérez (winner of four Golden Globes) also enhanced voices with AI.

Following on from yesterday’s story that Best Picture frontrunner, The Brutalist, uses AI to enhance Hungarian dialogue, the film’s director Brady Corbet has now weighed in on the debate, telling Deadline, “Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own”.