Oscars best picture frontrunner "The Brutalist" used AI to improve Adrien Brody's accent. Director Brady Corbet responded to the backlash.

"The Brutalist," considered by many to be a frontrunner for this year's Academy Awards, has been racking up more than just awards recently. The epic drama recently found itself at the center of one of the most controversial conversations in Hollywood after the film's editor and director revealed artificial intelligence was used to enhance the Hungarian spoken by the two lead actors,

"It is controversial in the industry to talk about AI, but it shouldn't be," Dávid Jancsó tells Red Shark News

The Brutalist caused a stir on social media after the Adrien Brody film's use of AI was revealed, calling for an Oscars snub.

"Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own," says Corbet, after details emerged on how AI technology was used in the editing of the actors' scenes spoken in Hungarian.

Brady Corbet, director of critically acclaimed film "The Brutalist," is responding to criticism of his Golden Globe winning film after it was revealed artificial intelligence was used in the production to "perfect" the actors' accents.

In wake of controversy surrounding its use of artificial intelligence, the Brady Corbet film landed 10 Oscar nominations.

Brady Corbet's critically claimed film elicited backlash after the editor said that artificial intelligence had been used.

Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’s Hungarian dialogue in The Brutalist was enhanced using AI tools, according to the film’s editor Dávid Jancsó.

Brady Corbet says stars’ performances ‘completely their own’ after it emerges AI technology was used to edit their scenes spoken in Hungarian

Adrien Brody—in a year when Timothy Chalamet sang, learned guitar and played harmonica winningly as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown—deserves a second Oscar for this 3 1/2-hour epic.