This film, the only Oscar nomination of Harrison Ford’s career, is broadcast tonight on television

This Friday, January 10, 2025 at 9:05 p.m., France 5 broadcasts this film for which Harrison Ford received the only Oscar nomination of his entire long and rich career. Not to be missed!

Harrison Ford needs no introduction. Having become an international star with his role as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy (1977-1983), he confirmed it in the 1980s by wielding the whip and playing the famous adventurer Indiana Jones in the saga of the same name. But the actor is not only a subscriber to blockbusters, quite the contrary. During his career, he was also able to establish himself in more unexpected registers, far from the big Hollywood spectacle! In 1985, he starred in the thriller Witness: witness under surveillance by Peter Weir, broadcast this Friday January 10, 2025 at 9:05 p.m. on France 5.

Witness : an Oscar nomination for Harrison Ford

In WitnessHarrison Ford plays a Philadelphia police officer who mixes with the Amish community to protect a child who witnesses the murder of an undercover agent from the narcotics division. Signed Peter Weir, to whom we also owe The Circle of Disappeared Poets et The Truman Showthis thriller triumphed with critics and received eight nominations for the 1986 Oscars. Harrison Ford was also nominated for the best actor award for the one and only time in his career. He was finally beaten by William Hurt, rewarded for his role in Kiss of the Spider Woman. For his part, Witness wins the Oscars for best original screenplay and best editing.

Viggo Mortensen’s film debut

Witness also marks the very first cinema appearance of a certain Viggo Mortensen. “I was a very young actor. The same day, I received two offers, one to play in the theater on Broadway, the other for the Peter Weir film. It was a single day of filming, even though the theater hired me for several months. My agent convinced me that turning down Witness was stupid. I landed in Pennsylvania. I got along so well with Peter Weir that he eventually offered me another role, that of Alexander Godunov’s brother. As a result, I stayed six weeks!” he recalled to the American media Vulture. The beginning of glory for the Danish actor who, even if he only plays a very small role in the film, will definitively achieve recognition in the early 2000s, in the guise of Aragorn in the trilogy of Lord of the Rings.