Let the Gold Gala weekend commence. @GoldHouseCo. Truly honored to celebrate my fellow A100 honorees tonight and all weekend.

Patrice Vermette, production designer of "Dune: Part Three," explains how every object must serve the story and "feel grounded in the reality" of its fantasy world. Vermette was this year’s recipient of Variety's Creative Impact Award presented at the @SCADdotedu Savannah Film Festival. Watch the Conversation: tinyurl.com/5xe6pn23

'Dune 3' Production Designer Patrice Vermette Created a 55-Ton Spaceship for Sci-Fi Epic: It's a 'Major Spectacle' variety.com/2026/artisans/ne…

ELSINORE is nominated for 12 British Independent Film Awards, the most of any film this year. 🏆 Congratulations to the entire cast and crew! #BIFA2026

Feeling inspired and geeking out over my latest interview. Could have listened to the person talk for hourssssssss. Coming soooonnnnnn! Anyway, did you vote?

The year of Sandra Hüller continues. Hüller is heading to the supporting actress race for “Fatherland,” Variety has confirmed exclusively. Mubi, which is handling the U.S. release of Paweł Pawlikowski’s black-and-white postwar drama, will campaign both Hüller and co-star Hanns Zischler in the supporting categories at the Oscars and across the awards circuit. The pair play Erika and Thomas Mann, the daughter and the Nobel Prize-winning author at the center of the film.

I spoke with The Odyssey costume designer, Ellen Mirojnick, about Penelope's blue dress and how it served as armor. A - I need to see this film again, and B - I can't get that image of her presenting the challenge out of my head. Oh, and C - Ellen Mirojnick has NEVER won an Oscar! variety.com/2026/artisans/ne…

Cliff Booth poster alert

From ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ to ‘The Invite,’ Costume Designers Shatter the Myth Behind Dressing Contemporary Characters: 'It's Very Difficult' variety.com/2026/artisans/ne…

Peter Berg has some great stories. Here’s one he told me about The Mosquito Bowl. So naturally, I had to write about it. ‘The Mosquito Bowl’: How a Parrot Proved to Be Peter Berg’s Biggest Challenge @Variety variety.com/2026/artisans/ne…

Congratulations, Jazz Tangcay, from all of your friends at GALECA!

'The Odyssey' Oscar Blitz to Begin With Robert Downey Jr., Guillermo del Toro and Steven Spielberg as Moderators variety.com/2026/film/awards…

Patrice Vermette receives this year’s @Variety Creative impact award in production design at SCAD Savannah film fest

This morning will be Presenting Patrice Vermette with the @Variety creative impact in production design award at @SCADdotedu

This is just so sad. Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’s’ Captain Picard and ‘X-Men’s’ Charles Xavier, Dies at 86 variety.com/2026/tv/news/pat… via @variety

Lady Gaga is the new CEO of Haus Labs following the departure of co-founder Ben Jones, effective immediately. “I’m excited to take on a more active role in the company and work alongside our incredible team to build on everything we’ve accomplished together,” Gaga told The Business of Beauty. “I have a lot of vision for this brand, and we have so much more we want to do.” gagadai.ly/HausLabs

What an honor to be nominated along with so many of my incredible colleagues. Congrats to all my friends and peers who are also nominated.

SCAD Savannah film festival has caught the You Can See Everything bug. Check out this standing o for Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. It’s a phenomenon.

Introducing @Variety’s 10 artisans to watch for 2026 presented @savfilmfest (minus Adam Newport-Berra)

I spoke with Kazu Hiro about how they transformed Tom Cruise for Digger