Brady Corbet, director of critically acclaimed film "The Brutalist," is responding to criticism of his Golden Globe winning film after it was revealed artificial intelligence was used in the production to "perfect" the actors' accents.

"Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own," says Corbet, after details emerged on how AI technology was used in the editing of the actors' scenes spoken in Hungarian.

"The Brutalist" is expected to be a front-runner in the Oscar race, which kicks off Thursday when the nominees are announced.

The Brutalist, the Adrien Brody-led historical fiction epic currently in theatres, has cinema sickos like me frothing at the mouth. For a start, it's already won three Golden Globes, and for another,

The Brutalist' director Brady Corbet is defending the controversial use of AI to alter Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’ Hungarian accents in his acclaimed film

That dialogue, it turns out, may have been supplemented by an AI speech tool. In an interview with RedShark News, The Brutalist’s editor, Dávid Jancsó, revealed that the film had employed Respeecher,