Oscar nominations aren’t a big deal to him, Samuel L. Jackson said in a video interview with AP Entertainment, while promoting his role in Netflix’s The Piano Lesson. Shockingly, Jackson has only received one Oscar nomination during his illustrious career – for Pulp Fiction, for which he won Best Supporting Actor in 1995. Jackson will receive an honorary Oscar in 2021.
“We’ve been in this business long enough to know that when people go, ‘It’s an honor to be nominated.’” No it’s not. “It’s an honor to win,” Jackson said with a laugh. “You get nominated and people say: ‘Yes, I remember that’. Or most people forget. Generally speaking, it’s a competition you didn’t volunteer to take part in. I didn’t go there so I could submit. ‘Let me do my scene, so you can remember who I am.’
“They nominate you and people ask, ‘What movie did you get nominated for? What’s the name of that thing?'” “After it’s over, people have a hard time remembering who won,” Jackson added.
Jackson told The Times in 2022 that he deserved to win the 1995 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor over Martin Landau (“Ed Wood”). He added in an interview with Vulture last year that he was denied a second chance at an Oscar when he wasn’t even nominated for Joel Schumacher’s 1996 legal drama “A Time to Kill.” The Oscars and Jackson haven’t gone hand in hand, which is a good thing considering he’d rather produce billion-dollar-grossing Marvel movies than chase Oscar-friendly roles.
“I would never allow the Oscars to be a measure of my success or failure as an actor,” Jackson told the Times. “My measure of success is my happiness: Am I satisfied with what I’m doing? I don’t do statue-chasing movies. You know (whispers): If you do this movie, you’ll win an Oscar. No thanks. I’d rather be Nick Fury. Or enjoy being Mace Windu with a sword.” Light in my hand.
Jackson said he was okay with giving up Oscar roles if it meant making movies that “people want to see just so they can get out of themselves,” adding, “This is the man I chose to be and I’m OK with that. I’m content because that’s who I am.” On it. I’m the guy who does the lines that people see on t-shirts. There are actors who spend their entire careers and no one can quote a line they said in a movie. People go to see my movies to see how crazy I am or to see how many times I’m going to say bastard whatever In the seats.”
Jackson’s latest film, “The Piano Lesson,” is now streaming on Netflix.