Connor Storrie has earned his first Emmy nomination, landing in Best Comedy Guest Actor for his hosting debut on Saturday Night Live. The nomination turns a February 28 appearance into awards-season business, with Storrie now in the same race as Michael J. Fox, Brett Goldstein, Hamish Linklater and Rob Reiner.
That Saturday Night Live episode was built around a very specific kind of spectacle. Storrie brought Quinn Hughes, Jack Hughes, Hilary Knight and Megan Keller onto the stage for his opening monologue, then later joined Hudson Williams for an ice-skating sketch and co-introduced Mumford & Sons. NBC submitted 11 of the 20 celebrities who hosted Saturday Night Live during Season 51 for Emmy consideration, and Storrie was one of the names that made the cut.
The nomination matters because it gives Storrie a separate awards path from Heated Rivalry, even though the series sits in the middle of the same conversation. Storrie and Williams were ineligible to compete for Heated Rivalry because of its Canadian production and funding, which kept it out of the Primetime Emmy race despite its run on HBO Max in the U.S. and a strong awards showing at the Canadian Screen Awards, where it won 16 prizes, including Best Drama Series.
That split is the cleanest explanation for why one project could collect trophies in Canada while the actor tied to it ended up on a different Emmy ballot. Heated Rivalry, a Canadian drama about Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander, will head to the International Emmys later this year. Saturday Night Live, meanwhile, also picked up a Best Variety Series nomination for Season 51, giving NBC a second awards touchpoint from the same season.
For Storrie, the next step is straightforward: he now goes into a field that includes Fox, Goldstein, Linklater and Reiner, with the result depending on voters who had no trouble separating his live hosting turn from the limits that kept Heated Rivalry out of the Primetime Emmys.
