For Samuel L. Jackson, there isn’t a honor in shedding.
Jackson, 75, said that he thinks Academy Award nominations don’t imply a lot in Hollywood, whereas not too long ago talking with The Associated Press.
“We have been within the enterprise lengthy sufficient to know that folk who go, ‘Effectively, it is simply an honor to be nominated,’ no it ain’t. It is an honor to win,” Jackson stated in a video the AP shared on X, inflicting his The Piano Lesson costar Michael Potts, 62, to snicker. “You realize, you get nominated, people go ‘Yeah, I keep in mind that,’ or most individuals overlook.”
“They solely bear in mind the winner,” Potts added.
Regardless of Jackson’s standing as one of many movie business’s most prolific and beloved actors during the last 40 years, the actor has solely acquired one aggressive Oscar nomination. In 1995, he was nominated for Finest Actor in a Supporting Function for enjoying the hitman Jules in 1994’s Pulp Fiction. Martin Landau in the end received that yr’s award for his efficiency in Ed Wooden.
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“And customarily it is a contest you did not volunteer to be in, you already know,” Jackson advised the AP of awards races. “I did not go in there so I might flex like, ‘Wait a minute, let me do my scene then! Maintain up! Be sure to bear in mind who I used to be!’ ”
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“They nominate you and folk go, ‘What’s that film they nominated for? What’s the title of that factor?’ After which after it is over, individuals have a tough time remembering who even received,” he added.
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Whereas Jackson has not been nominated for an Oscar since, he did obtain an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement on the 2022 Governors Awards, which his longtime pal Denzel Washington offered to him at that ceremony.
“I received on the market to entertain audiences the best way Hollywood entertained me. Make them overlook their lives for a couple of hours and be thrilled, awed, or excited on the large room the place make imagine lives,” he stated in an acceptance speech on the time. “Thanks to each one who has ever purchased a ticket to any film I used to be in. It is actually been an honor and a pleasure to entertain you.”
The Piano Lesson, through which Jackson collaborated with Denzel, 69, and his sons John David Washington and Malcolm Washington, is streaming on Netflix now.
