鈥淪chitt鈥檚 Creek鈥� may be over but the Emmy Awards aren鈥檛 done with Dan Levy.
After sweeping the top categories last year with the final season of the CBC hit comedy, Levy is up for a trophy again 鈥� this time for guest hosting 鈥淪aturday Night Live.鈥�
He joins several Canadian Emmy contenders announced Tuesday that include a swath of homegrown artists behind the Ontario-shot 鈥淭he Handmaid鈥檚 Tale,鈥� including Emmy-winning 鈥淪chitt鈥檚鈥� costume designers Debra Hanson and Darci Cheyne in the race for best fantasy/sci-fi costumes.
The dystopian CTV Drama series also netted Canadians nominations in categories for sound mixing, production design, contemporary makeup, single-camera picture editing and casting for a drama series.
Other nominees include renovation twins Jonathan and Drew Scott who are among the producers nominated for HGTV鈥檚 鈥淧roperty Brothers: Forever Home鈥� in the outstanding structured reality program category. They share the category with Canadian tycoons Kevin O鈥橪eary and Robert Herjavec as part of the producing team for ABC/CTV鈥檚 鈥淪hark Tank.鈥�
The outspoken entrepreneurs also sit among their fellow Sharks as nominees for best reality or competition host, a category with Canadians aplenty: Toronto cookbook maven Gail Simmons joins her co-hosts as contenders for Food Network鈥檚 鈥淭op Chef,鈥� while Montreal-bred culinary star Antoni Porowski is named alongside the other the Fab Five hosts of Netflix鈥檚 鈥淨ueer Eye.鈥�
Levy鈥檚 Emmy-nominated hosting gig on NBC/Global鈥檚 鈥淪NL鈥� last February followed a whirlwind year that saw the final season of 鈥淪chitt鈥檚 Creek鈥� showered with accolades.
He won 2020 Emmys for writing, co-directing and as a supporting actor on the show, which swept all seven categories it was nominated in and made history as the first comedy or drama to pick up all four acting categories.
Levy appeared in a number of the 鈥淪NL鈥� episode鈥檚 sketches, including one about the addictive pleasures of skimming online luxury real estate listings, and another where he played a tram operator on the Universal Studios Orlando backlot tour.
Meanwhile, perennial nominee Lorne Michaels, the Toronto-bred creator of 鈥淪NL,鈥� is up for best writing for a variety series. Rivals in that category include Montreal鈥檚 Barry Julien, nominated as part of the writing team on CBS/Global鈥檚 鈥淭he Late Show With Stephen Colbert.鈥� Julien and the Colbert team are also nominated for the late-night show鈥檚 2020 election night coverage in the variety special writing category.
The Weeknd鈥檚 bombastic Super Bowl Halftime Show earned the Toronto singer recognition for live variety special.
Canadians also figure prominently in special effects categories, including Rian McNamara, Tony Kenny, Anthony Paterson and Keith Sellers for Amazon Prime Video鈥檚 鈥淭he Boys,鈥� and Jesse Kawzenuk, Jeff Campbell, Laurent Spillemaecker and Ryan Freer for their work on Netflix鈥檚 鈥淭he Umbrella Academy.鈥� Both streaming series film in the Toronto area.
Freer also got a nod for outstanding special effects in a TV season or movie for the Disney Plus series 鈥淲andaVision.鈥�
Montreal-born composer Christophe Beck鈥檚 original score for an episode of 鈥淲andaVision鈥� earned a nomination for outstanding music composition for a limited or anthology series, movie or special.
Meanwhile, choreographer Sergio Trujillo, who was raised in Toronto, was recognized for his work on NBC鈥檚 perennial special 鈥淐hristmas in Rockefeller Center鈥� which picked up a nod for outstanding choreography for variety or reality programming.
Christopher Hargadon, Heather Crepp and William Ng were nominated for costume design on 鈥淭he Umbrella Academy.鈥�
The Emmys air Sept. 19 on CTV.
David Friend, The Canadian Press
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