Patrice Vermette

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Born1970 (age 5455)
Yearsactive1996–recent
Patrice Vermette
Born1970 (age 5455)
Years active1996–recent

Patrice Vermette (born 1970) is a Canadian production designer/art director.[1] He is most noted for his work on the films C.R.A.Z.Y., for which he won both the Genie Award for Best Art Direction/Production Design at the 26th Genie Awards[2] and the Jutra Award for Best Art Direction at the 8th Jutra Awards,[3] and Dune, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Production Design at the 94th Academy Awards.[4]

He was also a Jutra winner for Café de Flore at the 14th Jutra Awards and for 1987 at the 17th Jutra Awards,[3] and was nominated at the 13th Jutra Awards for City of Shadows (La Cité)[5] and at the 17th Jutra Awards for Enemy. He was a Genie and Canadian Screen Award nominee at the 30th Genie Awards for 1981, at the 32nd Genie Awards for Café de Flore[6] and at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards for Enemy,[7] and an Academy Award nominee at the 82nd Academy Awards for The Young Victoria[8] and at the 89th Academy Awards for Arrival.[1]

His other credits include the short film Magical Words (Les Mots magiques).

Patrice Vermette was born in Montreal, Quebec.[9] He studied communications at Concordia University, specializing in sound.[10] In 1977, at the age of seven, he watched the first film in the Star Wars series, a moment he said sparked his desire to dedicate his life to helping tell stories like the one he had seen.[11] Vermette has also stated that as a music enthusiast, his "dream" was to produce albums.[10]

After graduating university, Vermette was involved in the visual design of music videos. He also worked in advertising.[11]

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