Hudson Williams Wears a Chocolate Tux With a Saucy Little Lariat Necklace
He also gave a shoutout to Connor Storrie in his acceptance speech
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
Hudson Williams has a red-carpet formula, and he's not messing with it. The Heated Rivalry star — fresh off wins at the Golden Globes and the Met Gala circuit — showed up to the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards in a look that hit every note of his established aesthetic: tailored, a little undone, and unapologetically sexy.
Styled by Anastasia Walker, Williams wore an espresso single-breasted tuxedo from Dolce & Gabbana — silky chocolate lapels, sharp shoulders, straight-leg trousers, black leather Chelsea boots. Under the open blazer: a white silk-satin dress shirt, top buttons strategically left undone. Instead of a tie, he layered a thick gold-and-silver pavé diamond Lariat necklace from Fope, chunky hoops to match, and stacks of David Yurman rings. It's a look that reads formal until it doesn't — which, according to Harper's Bazaar, is exactly Williams's move.
The Night Belonged to Heated Rivalry
The outfit was almost secondary to the moment. Heated Rivalry took home a record 16 prizes at this year's Canadian Screen Awards, and Williams won Best Lead Performer in a Drama Series. His acceptance speech — warm, funny, and deeply human — called out his cast, crew, the networks Crave and HBO, and author Rachel Reid for building the universe his performance lives in. He thanked his partner Katelyn Larson for "keeping me stable, because sometimes I'm not." Then he closed by dedicating half the award to costar Connor Storrie, whom he called an "honorary Canadian," adding that his own performance wouldn't have landed without "a big sexy Russian to feast upon." The room, presumably, lost it.
What Williams is building — both on screen and on the carpet — is a coherent point of view: a man who knows how to wear a suit and knows exactly when to take it apart. The open collar, the statement jewelry doing the work of a tie, the rings stacked like punctuation. It's dressed-up and sexually confident in a way that still reads as intentional rather than try-hard. That balance is genuinely rare.
Style and substance don't always show up in the same package on awards night — Williams made sure they did.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
