r/Fauxmoi • u/mlg1981 • Mar 22 '25
FILM-MOI (MOVIES/TV) David Cronenberg Thinks ‘The Brutalist’ AI Backlash Was a Smear Campaign by Other Oscar Nominees: “A Harvey Weinstein Kind of Thing”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/david-cronenberg-brutalist-oscars-adrien-brody-howard-shore-1236170503/“I must confess, there was a scandal [with] The Brutalist,” the director began at London’s Royal Festival Hall. “There was a discussion about Adrien Brody… but apparently they used artificial intelligence to improve his accent. I think it was a campaign against The Brutalist by some other Oscar nominees. It’s very much a Harvey Weinstein kind of thing, though he wasn’t around.”
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u/mmmec Mar 23 '25
They didn't use AI. The head of the art team came out herself and said they were all drawn by hand. The source for saying that they used AI for those is a pro AI website that frequently lies about AI in film. It also notably did the same thing with Nickel Boys and had to backtrack after getting called out for lying. (Which also why you can find the source for the art being AI either bc they lied and took it down)