Timothée Chalamet fans furious he lost Oscar to Adrien Brody amid AI scandal

nme.com:

Oscars viewers and fans of Timothée Chalamet have reacted angrily to the star losing out on the Best Actor award to Adrien Brody, whose performance was embroiled in an AI controversy.Chalamet played Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown, for which he prepared extensively for several years.

As well as learning to play and sing like the music legend, he gained weight and perfected the voice of Dylan for the critically acclaimed performance.Adrien Brody has been a front-runner in the category for his performance in The Brutalist, playing a Hungarian architect who struggles after emigrating to Post-War America.The film was embroiled in some controversy in January, however, when it was revealed that the film’s editor Dávid Jancsó used AI software Respeecher to correct a sequence where a letter written by Adrien Brody’s character, László Tóth, is read aloud.Soon after, director Brady Corbet clarified the details. “Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own”, he said, adding that “Innovative Respeecher technology was used in Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy.

No English language was changed”.Nevertheless, the performance was seen as tainted by some, particularly those who were a fan of Chalamet’s work.