Michael J. Fox Will Be Honored With TV Academy’s Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmys

By Michael Schneider

Michael Schneider

Variety Editor at Large

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Michael J. Fox has been tapped to receive one of the Television Academy‘s biggest honors, the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, at this year’s Emmy Awards. The org announced the news Wednesday, noting that the kudo was “in recognition of his transformative contributions to Parkinson’s disease research and advocacy.”

Fox is already an Emmy nominee this year; he’s among the performers competing in the outstanding guest actor in a comedy series category via his role on Apple TV’s “Shrinking.” That award will be given out during the nontelevised Sept. 6 Emmys; his Bob Hope Humanitarian Award will be telecast on NBC (his one-time “Family Ties” home) as part of the 78th Emmy Awards on Sept. 14.

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