Patrice Vermette

Patrice Vermette (born 1970) is a Canadian production designer/art director. 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 and the Jutra Award for Best Art Direction at the 8th Jutra Awards, and Dune, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Production Design at the 94th Academy Awards.

He was also a Jutra winner for Café de Flore at the 14th Jutra Awards and for 1987 at the 17th Jutra Awards, and was nominated at the 13th Jutra Awards for City of Shadows (La Cité) 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 and at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards for Enemy, and an Academy Award nominee at the 82nd Academy Awards for The Young Victoria and at the 89th Academy Awards for Arrival.

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

Early life and education
Patrice Vermette was born in Montreal, Quebec. He studied communications at Concordia University, specializing in sound. 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. Vermette has also stated that as a music enthusiast, his "dream" was to produce albums.

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