Harrison Ford to Receive Career Achievement Honor at Critics Choice Awards

is for best supporting actor in a comedy for his turn on the Apple TV+ series at Sunday’s Critics Choice . 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 spinoff series . He will next be seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross in Marvel Studios’ opposite Anthony Mackie and Liv Tyler. Last year, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in James Mangold’s .

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 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 followed by, of course, playing Han Solo in , Steven Spielberg’s , Ridley Scott’s , Francis Ford Coppola’s and , Mike Nichols’ , Philip Noyce’s Tom Clancy adaptations and , Andrew Davis’ , Wolfgang Petersen’s , Robert Zemeckis’ , Kathryn Bigelow’s , Brian Helgeland’s and Gavin Hood’s .

The show will be executive produced by Bob Bain Prods. and Berlin Entertainment. As , the ceremony will also see 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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