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‘Dune’ Production Designer Patrice Vermette to Be Honored With Variety’s Creative Impact Award at SCAD Savannah Film Festival
Oscar-winning production designer Patrice Vermette will receive Variety’s Creative Impact in Production Design Award at the 2026 SCAD Savannah Film Festival. The honour recognises his influential work with director Denis Villeneuve, particularly on the “Dune” films, where his detailed architectural and visual world-building helped define the series.
Vermette has received four Oscar nominations and won for “Dune: Part One” in 2022. The festival will take place from 24–31 October 2026, attracting more than 74,000 visitors annually with screenings, panels and workshops, while highlighting SCAD’s production-design training and industry facilities.
In short
- Patrice Vermette will receive Variety’s production-design award.
- He won an Oscar for “Dune: Part One”.
- The SCAD festival runs from 24–31 October 2026.
Explained simply
Production designers shape the places, objects and overall visual style seen in a film, helping create settings that support its story. Patrice Vermette is a Canadian production designer who has worked with director Denis Villeneuve on films including the Dune series.
The Dune films are based on Frank Herbert’s science-fiction novels, set across a vast universe of rival groups and desert worlds. Their large-scale environments and distinctive architecture help audiences understand that setting, and production design is one part of how those worlds are brought to the screen.
The Savannah Film Festival is run by the Savannah College of Art and Design in the US state of Georgia. It brings together film screenings and industry events, and also showcases the college’s courses and facilities for people studying film and related creative work.
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