Samuel L. Jackson is looking at the Academy Awards from a new perspective.
Jackson, 75, minced no words when sharing his thoughts about the coveted gong and said the Oscar nominations don’t mean much to him.
“We’ve been in the business long enough to know what it means when people say, ‘It’s an honor to be nominated.’ No, it’s not,” Jackson said. associated Press In a joint interview with his “The Piano Lesson” co-star Michael Potts.
“It’s an honor to win,” the “Pulp Fiction” actor said, adding that most people ultimately forget about Oscar-nominated performances.
“You get nominated and people say, ‘Yeah, I remember that.’ Or most people forget,” he quipped.
The “Unbreakable” actor was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category at the 1995 Oscars for his role as Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.”
He ultimately lost to Martin Landau for the role of Ed Wood in the 1994 film of the same name.
Jackson believed that he would have won an Oscar for his role in Joel Schumacher’s “A Time to Kill” if his memorable scenes had not been cut from the final version.
“The things they brought out kept me from getting an Oscar,” Jackson told Old. vulture In 2023. “Really, mother-fucker? You just got that from me?”
“My first day of working on that movie, I gave a speech to a room with an actor and when I finished the speech the entire f–king set was in tears. I was like, ‘Okay. I’m on the right page.’ That shit isn’t in the movie! And I know why it isn’t. Because it was not my film, and they were not trying to make me a star.
After years of being denied the prestigious award, Jackson was finally given an Honorary Academy Award in 2021, and was recognized by the Academy as a “cultural icon”.
“Normally it’s a competition you don’t voluntarily attend,” he said of awards ceremonies. “I didn’t go there so I could bow down. ‘Let me do my scene, so you can remember who I was.’
“They nominate you and people say, ‘What’s that movie you’re nominated for? What’s the name of that thing?’ And after it’s over, it’s hard for people to remember who won,” the ‘Snakes on a Plane’ actor said.
The “Star Wars” actor also told Vulture that his 2021 Oscar “didn’t feel honorable” and instead “felt like I was getting an Oscar.”
“I earned it. I worked for it,” he told the outlet. “I can probably point to four other examples where I could have won or should have won or been nominated, but I’m okay with that. It’s mine. I understand it has my name on it.”
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