Jodie Foster: F1 'Was Made By AI'
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- Jodie Foster said at the Aspen Ideas Festival's 'Who Owns the Future of Hollywood?' talk that the Brad Pitt racing film F1 'was made by AI,' pointing to the movie's structure as matching exactly what a computer would write.
- F1, directed by Joseph Kosinski and written by Ehren Kruger, grossed more than $634 million globally, won the Oscar for Best Sound, and earned nominations for Best Picture, Best Film Editing, and Best Visual Effects.
- Foster acknowledged AI could eliminate Hollywood jobs but argued unions should negotiate terms like 'you can use my actor 20 times, but you're going to pay him 20 times.'
- Foster's 2025 French film A Private Life, directed by Rebecca Zlotowski, already featured an AI-facilitated dream sequence that Foster said turned out well despite images that 'made no sense.'
- Foster said AI is useful for 'small helpful things' like pre-visualization and storyboarding, and called for filmmakers to 'dominate AI' so that output 'reflects us.'
- SAG-AFTRA has endorsed the Trump administration's AI policy framework, which calls for congressional legislation on parental controls, IP rights, and removing barriers to AI innovation; Trump last month signed an executive order creating a voluntary 30-day government review of new AI models before release.
Why it matters: Foster's comments put a two-time Oscar winner behind a claim that one of last year's biggest box-office hits already shows AI's fingerprints, sharpening the union-versus-studio fight over compensation and consent for AI-generated work. With SAG-AFTRA publicly backing the Trump framework, Hollywood's largest actors union is now aligned with a federal push to accelerate AI development rather than slow it.
