Hollywood power couples come and go. Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart stayed. Now, after more than two decades together, the screen veterans will share an award podium for the first time on November 18, picking up the Hollywood Icon Award at the Women’s Guild Cedars-Sinai Stardust Ball at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. Organizers will also present media entrepreneur Byron Allen with a humanitarian honor for his work expanding opportunity in underserved communities.
Yet this is not merely another banquet trophy. Ford has put decades of sweat equity into global causes. He joined Conservation International in 1991, stepping up as its longest-serving board member and current vice chair, while collecting the inaugural E.O. Wilson Legacy Award for Transformative Conservation Leadership during Half-Earth Day 2025. When disaster strikes, the 82-year-old actor doesn't just cut checks—he flies. A licensed pilot, Ford has run search-and-rescue flights in American backwoods and airlifted medical teams and critical aid straight into post-earthquake Haiti, backing groups like Wings of Hope, Operation Smile, and Special Olympics along the way.
Flockhart's advocacy cuts an equally deliberate path. The Emmy-nominated star has focused her off-screen energy on frontline crisis support, throwing weight behind anti-violence groups including Peace Over Violence, For Goodness Sakes, and the Violence Intervention Program to shield women and vulnerable children from abuse.
Their domestic history has avoided the gossip circuit. The two crossed paths at the 2002 Golden Globes, where Ford collected the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. They married on June 15, 2010, at the Governor’s Mansion in Santa Fe, New Mexico, raising son Liam out of the glare of paparazzi flashbulbs. Recent outings have seen them re-emerge side-by-side, from the Actor Awards to the opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
Financially, the November gala packs a serious clinical punch. The Women’s Guild Cedars-Sinai has already generated over $70 million for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Proceeds from the November 18 ballroom will directly fund the Women’s Guild Neurology Project alongside an endowed pediatrics chair at Guerin Children’s, steering Hollywood spotlight power straight into pediatric research labs.