Overview
- The Academy, which announced the updates Friday, May 1, now requires human‑authored screenplays and limits acting eligibility to credited, consenting human performances, and it can ask filmmakers to explain how AI was used.
- Best International Feature adds a festival‑win route to qualify, covering top prizes at Berlin, Busan, Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and Venice, and the nomination will credit the film and its director rather than a country.
- Actors can receive more than one nomination in the same acting category if multiple roles finish among the top vote‑getters.
- Technical changes include allowing three casting statuettes, fixing the cinematography shortlist at 20, requiring makeup/hairstyling voters to attend a final branch meeting, setting an end‑credits timing test for original song clips, and mandating VFX reel viewing for final voting.
- The rules take effect for the March 14, 2027 ceremony and follow rising concern over generative AI, including synthetic performers and an AI‑rendered Val Kilmer, which the Academy says it will evaluate case by case.