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AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars

The organization behind the Academy Awards released new Oscar rules on Friday, including several that address the use of generative artificial intelligence. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that only performances “credited in the film’s legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” will be eligible for Academy Awards. Similarly,…

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‘Mr Nobody Against Putin’ director’s Oscar lost after being confiscated at US airport

Russian filmmaker Pavel Talankin, the co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, is looking for his Oscar. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The trophy has been lost after the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at New York’s JFK airport confiscated his award. In a social media post, Talankin’s co-director David Borenstein made a plea to help…

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From Trump biopic to Vatican intrigue: The political flicks of Oscars 2025

Shorouk Express The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were announced Thursday — and the list is decidedly politics-heavy. From a Vatican intrigue thriller, to a documentary about an assassinated Congolese freedom fighter, to a certain New York real estate tycoon-turned-president’s biopic, these are the political flicks that received an Oscars nod. The Apprentice Before…

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