The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has added new AI-related language to the 99th Oscars rules, drawing a clearer line around what still counts as award-eligible human creative work.

According to the Academy's official rules release, acting nominees must come from roles that are credited in a film's legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their consent. In the writing categories, the Academy now explicitly says a screenplay must be human-authored to qualify.

The Academy did not declare AI tools broadly ineligible. The full rules say generative AI and other digital tools "neither help nor harm" a film's chances on their own. Instead, branches are instructed to weigh the degree to which a human was at the heart of the creative authorship when choosing nominees and winners.

The rules also give the Academy a disclosure lever. If questions come up about generative AI use, it reserves the right to request more information about how the tools were used and who the human authors were. The Cinematographers Branch separately says it may request disclosure of known AI use in work submitted for that category.

That makes the change more precise than a blanket "no AI" rule. The Academy is leaving room for AI-assisted filmmaking, while formally protecting two areas that go directly to authorship and performance: who acted, and who wrote the script.