There are still months to go before awards season kicks into high gear, but the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences — the organization behind the Academy Awards — has announced several updates to its eligibility rules for the upcoming 99th Oscars . This includes specific language that doesn’t mention AI specifically, but does emphasize that future awards contenders should expect to be fully human — in the acting and writing categories, at least. Per these new rules, an actor will only be considered eligible for Oscars consideration if their role is “credited in the film’s legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their consent.” This specifically rules out the Tilly Norwoods of the world, but could theoretically allow someone like James Ortiz, the puppeteer behind the character of Rocky in Project Hail Mary , to be a contender.…