Samuel L. Jackson says ‘it’s not’ an honor to receive Oscar nomination:’It’s an honor to win’

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 you and people go, ‘What is that movie you’re nominated for? What’s the name of that thing?’ And after it’s over and people have a hard time remembering who even won,” the “Snakes on a Plane” actor added.

The “Star Wars” actor also told Vulture that his 2021 Oscar “didn’t feel honorary” and instead it “just felt like I was getting an Oscar.”

“I earned it. I worked for it,” he told the outlet. “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.”