The use of artificial intelligence could become a ferocious battleground during movie awards season, as at least two major contenders were revealed to have used voice-cloning to enhance actors’ performances. In an interview with moving-image tech publication Red Shark News, The Brutalist editor Dávid Jancsó said that, in an effort to create Hungarian dialogue so perfect “that not even locals will spot any difference”, Jancsó fed lead actors Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’s voices into AI software, as well his own. In the film, Brody plays Jewish-Hungarian architect László Tóth, who emigrates to the US after the second world war