Samuel L. Jackson is wanting on the Academy Awards with a recent perspective.
Jackson, 75, didn’t mince phrases when sharing his ideas in regards to the coveted gong, saying Oscar nominations don’t imply a lot to him.
“We’ve been in the business long enough to know that when folks go, ‘It’s just an honor to be nominated.’ No, it ain’t,” Jackson instructed the Related Press in a joint interview with his “The Piano Lesson” co-star Michael Potts.
“It’s an honor to win,” the “Pulp Fiction” actor stated, including that most individuals finally overlook Oscar-nominated performances.
“You get nominated and folks go, ‘Yeah I remember that.’ Or most people forget,” he quipped.
The “Unbreakable” actor was nominated within the Greatest Supporting Actor class on the 1995 Oscars for his position as Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.”
He finally misplaced out to Martin Landau for his position as Ed Wooden within the 1994 movie of the identical identify.
Jackson believed that he would’ve gained an Oscar for his position in Joel Schumacher’s “A Time To Kill” if his memorable scenes hadn’t been lower from the ultimate model.
“The things they took out kept me from getting an Oscar,” Jackson instructed previous Vulture in 2023. “Really, motherf–kers? You just took that s–t from me?”
“My first day working on that film, I did a speech in a room with an actor and the whole f–king set was in tears when I finished. I was like, ‘Okay. I’m on the right page.’ That shit is not in the movie! And I know why it’s not. Because it wasn’t my movie, and they weren’t trying to make me a star.”
After years of being with out the coveted award, Jackson was lastly given the Honorary Academy Award in 2021, and was acknowledged as a “cultural icon” by the Academy.
“Generally it’s a contest you didn’t volunteer to be in,” he stated of award ceremonies. “I didn’t go in there so I could flex. ‘Let me do my scene, so you can remember who I was.’”
“They nominate you and people go, ‘What is that movie you’re nominated for? What’s the name of that thing?’ And after it’s over and people have a hard time remembering who even won,” the “Snakes on a Plane” actor added.
The “Star Wars” actor additionally instructed Vulture that his 2021 Oscar “didn’t feel honorary” and as an alternative it “just felt like I was getting an Oscar.”
“I earned it. I worked for it,” he instructed the outlet. “I can possibly name four other instances where I could have won or should have won or should have been nominated, but I’m fine with it. It’s mine. I got it. My name’s on it.”
