Harrison Ford lands his first Emmy Award nomination at 83

Harrison Ford landed his first-ever Emmy Award nomination for his performance as Dr. Paul Rhoades in the second season of Apple TV+ series Shrinking on Tuesday - just two days after celebrating his 83rd birthday.

The Indiana Jones and Blade Runner alum is up for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series as the grieving therapist suffering from Parkinson's disease in Bill Lawrence, Jason Segel, and Brett Goldstein's critically-acclaimed dramedy.

Harrison isn't alone either as he'll have to battle his Shrinking co-star Michael Urie, who plays Brian the lawyer, for the same exact honor when the live ceremony airs September 14 on CBS/Paramount+.

But Ford faces the most competition against The Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who already won the supporting actor Emmy for the past two consecutive years.

Other strong contenders include SNL's Bowen Yang, Somebody Somewhere's Jeff Hiller, The Four Seasons' Colman Domingo, and The Studio's Ike Barinholtz.

The Chicago-born grandfather-of-three made history as the second oldest nominee in that category after The Kominsky Method actor Alan Arkin scored a nod at age 86 in 2020.

Over on the social media platform X, Harrison's fans reacted to the news like user @DeSciJeremy tweeting: 'Took em long enough to recognize this GOAT [greatest of all time].'

X user @chiefflips shared a meme of John C. Reilly looking confused with the caption: 'What?! How is this possible?'

'He's the best character on that show,' remarked X user @SteveRosenheim1.

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'Harrison Ford proves it's never too late to be recognized,' X user @barfield_gina tweeted. 'True talent shines across every stage and every age.'

X user @ElarRealm agreed: 'Greatness doesn't age - it evolves. Harrison Ford's first Emmy nod at 83 reminds us that legends keep rewriting the rules.'

'To be fair, the guy was a huge movie star for most of his career,' X user @TheUnrealPeterG tweeted. 'At a time when doing TV would have been considered a step backwards.'

Shrinking also scored nods for outstanding comedy series, Jason Segel is up for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series, and Jessica Williams is up for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series.

Ford previously called his gig on Shrinking as a 'the best job I've ever had.'

'I live half an hour away. I go home and I sleep in my own bed,' the Oscar nominee gushed during PaleyLive's An Evening of Shrinking on December 12.

'I'm in the same town as my wife and children and I'm doing really smart, intelligent storytelling with incredibly talented people.'

Harrison - whose films have grossed over $9B worldwide - has always 'enjoyed humor' and the 'construction of jokes' because his late father Christopher was a joke teller.

'When I was thinking about becoming an actor, I was ambitious for both kinds of work — serious drama and comedy,' Ford explained to Vanity Fair on October 10.

'I found myself doing both and not really distinguishing much between them. I think I think with the same actor's head about a joke as I do about a serious or emotional scene.'

On October 17, Apple TV+ renewed Shrinking for a third season, which commenced production in February.

'I think I've been public about saying the first year is about grief, the second year was about forgiveness, and third year's about moving forward,' co-creator Bill Lawrence told Deadline last December.

'What we really care about, Brett and me, both with our family connections to Parkinson's, is an accurate and inspiring representation of what people that have to deal with that s*** go through, and what it means moving forward. I think that will be touching and hard to watch, and if I knew where it ended, I wouldn't tell you, but I can be honest and say I don't know where it ends yet.'

The 56-year-old showrunner continued: 'People have gotten over the main part of the mountain of dealing with grief and forgiving themselves and forgiving each other. So, in the third year, again about moving forward, I think every single character, even right now, just from me saying that generic thing, you would probably go "Hey, I was thinking about it." 

'Alice is supposed to go to college, and Sean still lives in a pool house, and Jimmy met Cobie Smulders. We always put easter eggs for what people need to work on the next year.'

Harrison did not receive awards attention for his role as patriarch Jacob Dutton in the eight-episode second season of Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone spin-off 1923 on Paramount+.

On the personal front, Ford is 23 years older than his third wife Calista Flockhart, but they've been happily married for 15 years after originally meeting during the 2002 Golden Globe Awards.

The Captain America: Brave New World actor and the three-time Emmy nominee are proud parents of 24-year-old son Liam Flockhart Ford, who graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 2023.

Harrison is father to two sons - Ben, 58; and Willard, 56 - from his 15-year marriage to first ex-wife Mary Marquardt, which ended in 1979.

Ford also fathered two children - son Malcolm, 37; and daughter Georgia, 35 - from his 20-year marriage to late second ex-wife Melissa Mathison, which ended in 2004.