Harrison Ford to Receive Career Achievement Honor at Critics Choice Awards

Harrison Ford is nominated for best supporting actor in a comedy for his turn on the Apple TV+ series Shrinking at Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards. But even if he doesn’t win, the 81-year-old actor won’t go home empty-handed.

The organization announced Tuesday that Ford will be feted with the Career Achievement Award at the 29th annual event, which will be hosted by Chelsea Handler and broadcast on The CW. The news comes during a busy spell for Ford who also stars opposite Helen Mirren in the Yellowstone spinoff series 1923. He will next be seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross in Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Brave New World opposite Anthony Mackie and Liv Tyler. Last year, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

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That film had a glitzy premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, and in conjunction with the premiere, a teary Ford accepted a surprise honorary Palme d’Or for lifetime achievement. He’s been similarly honored with career prizes from with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ Albert R. Broccoli Britannia Award, the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, an Honorary César Award and the National Association of Theater Owners’ Box Office Star of the Century award in 1994.

His acting career dates back to the late 1960s. Major credits over the decades include a breakthrough role in 1973 in George Lucas’s American Graffiti followed by, of course, playing Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation and Apocalypse Now, Mike Nichols’ Working Girl, Philip Noyce’s Tom Clancy adaptations Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, Andrew Davis’ The Fugitive, Wolfgang Petersen’s Air Force One, Robert Zemeckis’ What Lies Beneath, Kathryn Bigelow’s K-19: The Widowmaker, Brian Helgeland’s 42 and Gavin Hood’s Ender’s Game.

The Critics Choice Awards show will be executive produced by Bob Bain Prods. and Berlin Entertainment. As announced, the ceremony will also see America Ferrera honored with an eighth annual SeeHer Award. Sponsors of the awards include Verizon, Delta Air Lines, Fiji Water, Cold Stone Creamery, Milagro Tequila, Champagne Collet, d’Arenberg and Maison L’Envoyé wines.

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