‘SNL’s Liz Patrick Wins First Emmy For Directing

Liz Patrick, who took over directing Saturday Night Live two years ago, won her first primetime Emmy on Sunday.

She won a Creative Arts Emmy for the episode co-hosted by Steve Martin and Martin Short. She beat Last Week Tonight’s Paul Pennolino, Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s Andy Fisher, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s Jim Hoskinson and The Problem with Jon Stewart’s Andre Allen.

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Patrick was nominated last year for the Billie Eilish-hosted episode but lost out to A Black Lady Sketch Show’s Bridget Stokes.

She has also previously won a number of daytime Emmys for her work on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Patrick took over from Don Roy King in January 2022. King, who is thought to have directed more hours of live U.S. network television than anyone else, had been the director of the long-running NBC series since 2006 and won 11 Emmys with 16 nominations.

Patrick is now on her way to rivaling her predecessor. She previously directed more than 2,000 episodes of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and has worked with DeGeneres on a number of series including Ellen’s Game of Games, Repeat After Me and Heads Up! She previously spent 15 years at MTV, working across live events as well as series such as Wild N’ Out.

She has had a slightly strange start to her SNL career; the writers strike meant that the final three episodes of Season 48 were canceled and Season 48 didn’t kick off until mid-October.

Saturday Night Live also won the Emmy for Outstanding Production Design for a Variety or Reality Series at tonight’s Creative Arts Emmys ceremony in downtown Los Angeles.

It was also up for Outstanding Music Direction, Outstanding Picture Editing For Variety Programming and Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Variety Series, while Pedro Pascal and Quinta Brunson were up for Guest Actor awards but didn’t succeed.

SNL is up for Outstanding Scripted Variety Series at next week’s Primetime Emmys, going up against Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and A Black Lady Sketch Show, as well as Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.

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