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Harrison Ford received a single Oscar nomination, for Best Actor at the 58th Academy Awards in 1986, for his performance in the thriller film Witness. He also received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for the same role.
Ford turned to carpentry as a self-taught profession to support his wife and two young sons after growing frustrated with the minor roles he was being offered. His clients included the writers Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, who lived on the beach at Malibu.
Ford was brought in to read lines for other actors auditioning for Star Wars in 1977, not to audition for himself. Director George Lucas became convinced by Ford's performance during those readings and cast him as Han Solo.
Ford is a licensed pilot of both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. He has performed real search-and-rescue operations in Wyoming, including airlifting an EMT to a dehydrated hiker on Table Mountain in 2000 and locating a 13-year-old Boy Scout lost near Yellowstone National Park in 2001.
Ford has served as vice chair of Conservation International since 1991, appeared in the documentary series Years of Living Dangerously, and gave a speech at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit on destruction of the Amazon rainforest. In 2025, he received the inaugural E.O. Wilson Legacy Award for Transformative Conservation Leadership.
Three species have been named after Harrison Ford. Arachnologist Norman Platnick named the spider Calponia harrisonfordi in 1993, entomologist Edward O. Wilson named the ant Pheidole harrisonfordi in 2002, and the Peruvian snake Tachymenoides harrisonfordi was named for him in 2023.