It’s still an open question whether an AI performer can actually “act,” but awards bodies will soon have to confront whether such a performance could ever be eligible for a major award. It seems like a storyline plucked out of some Hollywood dystopian satire. Still, with the arrival of concepts like AI “actress” Tilly Norwood and, now, the likeness of Val Kilmer in an upcoming movie role a year after his death, the question of whether AI-generated likenesses could ever be awards-eligible is