David Cronenberg, the Canadian body-horror master behind works like Crimes of the Future, Videodrome and Scanners, has shared his opinion about something he doesn’t usually address: The Oscars. The director talked about the controversy that Brady Corbet’s historical drama The Brutalistfaced before the Academy Awards this year when the film’s editor admitted to using AI to make Adrien Brody’s Hungarian accent more authentic. Cronenberg attributes the backlash to other Oscar nominees who campaigned against the film: “It’s very much a Harvey Weinstein kind of thing.”
The ‘Crash’ and ‘Dead Ringers’ director shares his controversial take on the AI issue with ‘The Brutalist.’ Read More