Michael J. Fox has received his first Emmy nomination in a decade, capping a return to acting after five years away amid his "second retirement". The nod, in the Guest Actor in a Comedy Series category at the 78th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, recognises his role as Gerry in the third season of the Apple TV dramedy Shrinking, and marks a notable milestone for an actor who has continued working while living with Parkinson's disease.

In Shrinking, Fox plays a Parkinson's patient who bonds with, and becomes a hallucination of, Harrison Ford's Dr Paul Rhoades, in a role tailored to portray life with the condition honestly but humorously. The part reunited him with his former Spin City co-creator Bill Lawrence, whom Fox says he personally approached about appearing. It is his eighteenth career nomination and his first since 2016, when he was recognised for The Good Wife; a win would be his sixth overall. His competition includes co-star Brett Goldstein, Hamish Linklater, Christopher McDonald, the late Rob Reiner and Connor Storrie. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1991 and left Spin City in 2000, later announcing a second retirement in 2020.