Samuel L. Jackson says its not an honor to receive Oscar nomination: Its an honor to win

Samuel L.Jackson is looking at the Academy Awards with a fresh perspective.Jackson, 75, did not mince words when sharing his thoughts about the coveted gong, saying Oscar nominations don’t mean much 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 told the 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 Oscar-nominated performances.“You get nominated and folks go, ‘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 out to Martin Landau for his role as Ed Wood in the 1994 film of the same name.Jackson believed that he would’ve won an Oscar for his role in Joel Schumacher’s “A Time To Kill” if his memorable scenes hadn’t been cut from the final version.“The things they took out kept me from getting an Oscar,” Jackson told old 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 without the coveted award, Jackson was finally given the Honorary Academy Award in 2021, and was recognized as a “cultural icon” by the Academy.“Generally it’s a contest you didn’t volunteer to be in,” he said 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...