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Quick Links The Initial 'Brutalist' Controversy and Filmmakers Respond to Claim Voting for Nominations Is Already Done... But the Award Season Is About to Begin AI: Is There a Conversation to Be Had?

The Brutalist has gone from critical darling and potential frontrunner for the Academy Awards to now a widely controversial pick following the revelation that the movie used AI tools to enhance a scene for the actors' voices and possibly used generative AI in the film's final moments. While director Brady Corbet has denied the use of generative AI and explained the specific audio tool, The Brutalist is the latest in a long line of movies in 2024 that were caught using AI, from Late Night with the Devil to Civil War to fellow Oscar contender Emilia Pérez.

With The Brutalist conversation now likely to be dominated by discussion of the use or not use of AI and the ethical implications,...

The Brutalist is making its rounds as one of the best films of 2024, rising to the top of most film critics' end-of-year lists, and winning three categories at the Golden Globes. The film is a serious contender for many awards at the Oscars, including Best Picture. The Brutalist has had an interesting rise to popularity and awards contention. The film runs for three and a half hours, going so long that it needs an intermission. The Brutalist's focus on architecture isn't as attention-grabbing as most other films in theaters, either.

However, The Brutalist has plenty of positives that have made the film such a strong awards contender. The film's stars, Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce, deliver career-defining performances. The Brutalist is also masterfully crafted, with an entirely original story that sheds light on issues that still affect life today, such as the struggles immigrants have and how stories about...

Quick Links Brady Corbet Fought for Years to Make 'The Brutalist' Brady Corbet Made a Well-Deserved Plea to the Studios

Awards season is officially in full swing. Last Sunday kicked off the film industry’s most anticipated time of the year with the Golden Globes, which gave much-needed boosts to contenders like Kieran Culkin, Zoe Saldaña, and Adrien Brody as Oscar nomination voting wraps up. The Brutalist and Emilia Perez won the respective Best Picture awards for Drama and Comedy/Musical, confirming their status as the frontrunners. Demi Moore, in an already iconic speech, brought the house down with her win for Best Actress, fully cementing her comeback. And Nikki Glaser successfully washed out the bad aftertaste of Jo Koy’s disastrous hosting last year.

But maybe no moment hit harder than one of the ceremony’s final moments when The Brutalist won Best Picture. Director Brady Corbet, who’d...

Quick Links ‘The Brutalist’ Explores the Dark Side of the American Dream What Happens to Van Buren in ‘The Brutalist”? What Does the Epilogue to ‘The Brutalist’ Suggest?

Spoiler Alert: Spoilers follow for The BrutalistBrady Corbet’s The Brutalist is one of the buzziest movies of 2024. Against all odds, the film lives up to the hype — The Brutalist is a staggeringly ambitious, enthralling spectacle that feels almost like a classic from the 1970s. It very well might be the best film of the year, period, and it seems a given that it’ll be an Oscar contender.

Clocking in at a runtime of just over three and a half hours (including a fifteen-minute intermission), the film is a massive undertaking, but it somehow feels half its length. The first act in particular includes some of the most exhilarating filmmaking of the last decade, proving a captivating immigrant saga and a...

The ever-talented Felicity Jones continues to prove her on-screen talents following a run of successful leading roles over the years, from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to The Theory of Everything — the latter earning her an Academy Award nomination. Her latest awards contender, the A24 film The Brutalist, finds Jones alongside Oscar-winner Adrien Brody. They play a Hungarian refugee couple seeking a fruitful life in post-World War II America. Jones plays a sharp-witted but disease-stricken writer named Erzsébet, whose skilled architect of a husband, László (Brody), arrives in America far before she does. They finally reconnect in the U.S. while he's busy bringing to life an epic project thought up by a wealthy American industrialist named Harrison (Guy Pearce).

MovieWeb recently caught up with Jones in-person in Los Angeles to learn more about her groundbreaking new dramatic film (all 215 minutes of it) and the through line of the...

Amazon MGM is getting into the race car business thanks to news that a new drama series centered around the world of Formula 1 is being developed for Prime Video. The best part? Felicity Jones is set to lead the cast of what's being titled One, which is the first-ever sanctioned scripted series by the Fia.

Per Variety, Jones is set to both lead and executive produce One, which is said to "focus on a failing family-owned racing team, led by Jones’ character, as it contends with fierce personalities, ever-changing rivals and multi-million-dollar stakes." It should be made clear that, as of right now, the F1 drama is currently in the developmental stage, and an official series order has yet to be made by Amazon, meaning that there is still a slight chance that things could fall apart. Jones will produce through her Piecrust Pictures label, while Mark Fergus and...

As one of the last major Oscar contenders to release in 2024, finding out where to watch The Brutalist is a significant question for all awards season enthusiasts. Ever since Brady Corbet's movie debuted at the Venice International Film Festival, it has been seen as a contender for the 2025 Oscars season. Starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, and others, The Brutalist follows Brody's character, László Toth, as he journeys to America to start fresh and blazes a trail thanks to incredible architectural abilities. It put Adrien Brody firmly in the list of predicted 2025 Oscars Best Actor nominations.

Although buzz for The Brutalist's cast and crew began back at Venice following its September debut, the film was first seen without confirmed distribution plans. A24 acquired the rights to the film afterward, reportedly for around $10 million (per Variety), and elected to give the film a wide theatrical release - far...