Michael J. Fox

Actor Michael J. Fox, best known for his work in the “Back to the Future” films and on the small screen in “Family Ties,” will receive the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his advocacy of Parkinson’s research, the Academy announced today. Meanwhile, writer/director Euzhan Palcy, singer-songwriter Diane Warren and director Peter Weir...

“If you don’t think you have anything to be grateful for, keep looking,” he said.

It appears the curtain is closing on Michael J. Fox’s acting career. The Emmy winner, 59, writes in his new memoir, “No Time Like the Future,” that he is mulling another retirement from acting due to the effects of living with Parkinson’s disease for nearly 30 years.