Harrison Ford has been named as the recipient of the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award for 2026, the guild’s highest honor recognizing both career and humanitarian accomplishments. The award will be bestowed in March during the 32nd annual The Actor Awards, formerly known as the SAG Awards. The honor is given to actors who exemplify the “finest ideals of the acting profession.”

The ceremony will stream live on Netflix, taking place Sunday, March 1, 2026 at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall. Ford will become the 61st to receive the honor. This adds one more accolade to Ford’s already ample list, including an Oscar Best Actor nomination in 1986 for Witness, and lifetime honors the Critics Choice Career Achievement Award (2024), the Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award (2002) and AFI Life Achievement Award (2000).

Ford’s seven-decade career includes iconic roles from Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise to Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark franchise. After early TV roles appearing on shows including Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Virginian, The F.B.I., Love, American Style, and Kung Fu. Ford’s big-screen break came with a role in George Lucas’ American Graffiti in 1973. Lucas would later cast him as the swashbuckling hero Han Solo in a total of five Star Wars films. With Lucas a producer, he played Indiana Jones in a total of five more films.

He went on to three decades of hit films, from both Blade Runner films to Witness (where he got his Oscar nom) and Working Girl to The Fugitive, Air Force One and the Tom Clancy movies Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. His more recent work includes The Call of the Wild and Captain America: Brave New World.

Ford is also well known as an activist, working for years on behalf of environmental and human rights causes. He is vice-chair of Conservation International and a General Trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America.

“I am deeply honored to be chosen as this year’s recipient of the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award,” Ford said in a statement. “To be acknowledged by my fellow actors means a great deal to me. I’ve spent most of my life on film sets, working alongside incredible actors and crews, and I’ve always felt grateful to be part of this community.”