‘Dune’ Production Designer Patrice Vermette, Set Decorator Zsuzsanna Sipos Claim First Oscars; Fourth Of Night For Warner Bros. & Legendary’s Sci-Fi Epic
28.03.2022 - 02:47
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Production designer Patrice Vermette and set decorator Zsuzsanna Sipos took home statuettes for their work on Dune at the Academy Awards on Sunday. Both Vermette and Sipos are first-time winners, though the former had previously been nominated for his work on the films The Young Victoria and Arrival.
The pair bested the teams behind Guillermo del Toro’s carnival noir Nightmare Alley (production designer: Tamara Deverell, set decorator: Shane Vieau), Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of West Side Story (production designer: Adam Stockhausen, set decorator: Rena DeAngelo), Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth (production designer: Stefan Dechant, set decorator: Nancy Haigh), and Jane Campion’s Netflix Western The Power of the Dog (production designer: Grant Major, set decorator: Amber Richards). They had been top contenders to win the Production Design Oscar throughout the 2022 awards season, having already won a BAFTA Award, an Arts Directors Guild Award for Fantasy Film and a Critics’ Choice Award, among other accolades.
Dune was nominated in a total of 10 categories, also including Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Editing, Visual Effects and Sound. Before the Oscars broadcast has even started, the film has also already claimed statuettes for Editing, Original Score and Sound.
Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures is based on Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 novel of the same name. It tells the story of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), the son of a noble family who is thrust into a war within the deserts of the inhospitable planet Arrakis, after finding himself entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset in the