Samuel L. Jackson senses its time to drop the facade when it comes to awards season.
“We’ve been in the business extfinished enough to comprehend that when folks go, ‘It’s equitable an honor to be nominated.’ No it ain’t,” Jackson said in a video from the Associated Press. “It’s an honor to triumph.” J
Jackson went on to say that most people forget Oscar-nominated carry outances, and even some triumphners. “You get nominated and folks go, ‘Yeah I recall that.’ Or most people forget,” he said with a chuckle. “Generassociate it’s a contest you didn’t volunteer to be in. I didn’t go in there so I could flex. ‘Let me do my scene, so you can recall who I was.’ They nominate you and people go, ‘What is that movie you’re nominated for? What’s the name of that slfinisherg?’ And after it’s over and people have a difficult time recalling who even won.”
Despite his honord and storied atgentle, Jackson has only ever been nominated for an Oscar once — in 1995 for Pulp Fiction. He was contransiented an honorary Academy Award in 2021. Last summer, he tanciaccess Vulture the prize “didn’t sense honorary” and that it “equitable felt appreciate I was getting an Oscar.”
“I obtained it. I labored for it,” he proceedd. “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.”
Elsewhere in the interwatch, he named 1997’s Jackie Brown one of the movies he felt snubbed for.
