Harrison Ford

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Harrison Ford has starred in some of the most successful and acclaimed films in cinema history, including the landmark Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and a total of eight Best Picture Oscar®-nominated movies. Ford has garnered a number of Best Actor award nominations, including one Academy Award®, three Golden Globe Awards®, and one BAFTA Award®. Ford reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny the fifth film in the series directed by Steven Spielberg. He can be seen in Apple TV+'s Shrinking, for which he received an Emmy nomination, and Paramount+'s 1923.

Throughout his illustrious career, Ford has also been repeatedly honored for his contributions to the film industry. Most recently, he was surprised at the Cannes Film Festival Premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny with a Palme d’Or. Other awards have included the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ Albert R. Broccoli Britannia Award, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2000. In 1994, the National Association of Theater Owners named him the Box Office Star of the Century.

Ford starred as John Thornton in Fox’s adaptation of Jack London’s classic novel Call of the Wild opposite Dan Stevens and Omar Sy. The hybrid live-action/animated film was set in the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s.

In his first animated role, Ford voiced the no-nonsense farm dog ‘Rooster’ in Universal Pictures’ The Secret Life of Pets 2 with Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish.

Ford was also seen in Blade Runner 2049 alongside Ryan Gosling. He reprised his role as Han Solo in Disney’s Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, directed by J.J Abrams. The film broke multiple box office records, including the highest-grossing domestic film of all time.

A native of Chicago, Ford launched his film career in 1973 with the breakthrough role of hot-rodder Bob Falfa in George Lucas’s seminal hit, American Graffiti. Four years later, he reunited with Lucas to play the iconic role of Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. The sci-fi epic earned 12 Oscar® nominations, including Best Picture, and became the top-grossing film in history, a record it held for 20 years. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens.

In 1981, Ford created another legendary screen character, Indiana Jones, in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar®-nominated mega-hit Raiders of the Lost Ark. During the 1980s, he starred in the blockbuster sequels Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In 2008, he returned to the title role in the hugely successful Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Ford’s many other film credits include Francis Ford Coppola’s Oscar®-nominated features The Conversation and Apocalypse Now; Ridley Scott’s 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner; Mike Nichols’ Oscar®-nominated romantic comedy Working Girl; the title role in the Nichols-directed drama Regarding Henry; Alan J. Pakula’s Presumed Innocent and The Devil’s Own; Philip Noyce’s Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, both based on the Tom Clancy bestsellers; Wolfgang Petersen’s Air Force One; Robert Zemeckis’s What Lies Beneath; Kathryn Bigelow’s K-19: The Widowmaker which he also executive produced; Roger Michell’s Morning Glory; Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens; Robert Luketic’s Paranoia; Brian Helgeland’s 42; Lee Toland Krieger’s Age of Adeline; and Gavin Hood’s Ender’s Game.

Ford currently serves as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors for Conservation International, a nonprofit group that protects biodiversity in trouble spots internationally. He has been a member for over 25 years.

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