IMDb now has Connor Storrie with his first Emmy nomination, earned for hosting Saturday Night Live on Feb. 28. The 26-year-old is in the best guest actor in a comedy race, a category that will be handed out at the Creative Arts Emmys rather than the main ceremony.
Feb. 28 on Saturday Night Live
Storrie’s nomination comes from the Feb. 28 episode of Saturday Night Live, where Mumford & Sons served as musical guest and Hudson Williams appeared in a sketch with him. That single appearance is now the entry point to his first major awards recognition, and it puts him into a category where the field is judged on one-off work rather than a season-long run.
“SNL was such a ‘pinch me’ moment in my career,” Storrie said in an email statement. “It was a formative part of my life growing up, so to be recognized by the Academy for hosting feels incredibly surreal. I’m so grateful to everyone who made that night possible.”
Heated Rivalry and eligibility
Heated Rivalry cannot be part of that Emmy bid because the series was ineligible for the Emmys as an entirely Canadian financed production. That leaves Saturday Night Live as the route that got Storrie into the current Emmy cycle, even though the role that raised his profile came from a different project entirely.
The split is useful for readers tracking how awards eligibility works in practice: one performance can qualify while the breakout vehicle beside it cannot. Storrie’s case shows the line plainly, and it also explains why a guest-actor nomination can arrive even when the role most viewers associate with him sits outside the awards field.
Creative Arts Emmys in September
The guest actor in a comedy prize is typically presented at the Creative Arts Emmys, scheduled for Sept. 5 and Sept. 6, before the Emmys on Sept. 12. For Storrie, that means the nomination is not just a credit line; it is a real shot at awards-night recognition tied to a single televised hosting performance.
What remains most relevant is the nomination itself: a first Emmy entry for a 26-year-old actor who reached the race through Saturday Night Live, not through Heated Rivalry. The specific sketch or performance the nomination is tied to was not identified, and that leaves the recognition focused on the bigger fact — Storrie is now in the awards conversation on the strength of one night.
