Could Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Artificial’ Be This Oscar Season’s ‘The Apprentice’?

By Clayton Davis

Clayton Davis

Chief Awards Editor

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We have reached the point where every awards season produces a movie nobody wants to be seen with. This year, it might also be a movie that one very specific person would prefer no one sees at all.

That movie is “Artificial,” Luca Guadagnino’s dramatization of the 2023 weekend that nearly toppled OpenAI, which Amazon MGM Studios dropped from its slate, as Variety reported. The move came after Amazon struck a partnership with the tech company in February to expand OpenAI’s use of Amazon Web Services and develop custom AI models, a deal that included a $50 billion investment from Amazon.

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