Samuel L. Jackson’s Deleted Scene Price Him An Oscar Nom

Samuel L. Jackson is likely one of the top-grossing actors on the planet, however for some odd motive — his awards recognition doesn’t replicate that.

Imagine it or not, the 74-year-old actor’s profession spans over 160 motion pictures, together with a few of the largest franchises just like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Star Wars universe, the MonsterVerse, plus Kingsman, Unbreakable, and naturally, Quentin Tarantino’s cinematic worlds.

However, regardless of this illustrious profession from theater to the silver display screen, he is solely obtained one Academy Award nomination — for his function as Jules Winnfield in Tarantino’s 1994 movie Pulp Fiction.

Now, he is revealing a film second that may’ve price him his second nomination as a result of it was faraway from the ultimate minimize.

Talking with Vulture about his profession, Sam referenced his function in Joel Schumacher’s 1996 movie A Time to Kill as a second the place he was robbed of an Academy Award.

Finally, the film’s remaining minimize did not pan out precisely the way it was deliberate, and this, he believed, saved him from award recognition. “In A Time to Kill, when I kill those guys, I kill them because my daughter needs to know that those guys are not on the planet anymore and they will never hurt her again — that I will do anything to protect her.”

“That’s how I played that character throughout. And there were specific things we shot, things I did to make sure that she understood that, but in the editing process, they got taken out.”

Sam mentioned the ultimate minimize made him seem like he “planned every move to make sure that I was going to get away with it,” however this wasn’t the scene’s intention. “When I saw it, I was sitting there like, ‘What the fuck?'” he added.

Sam believed it saved him from getting an Oscar. “Really, motherfuckers? You just took that shit from me?” he added. “My first day working on that film, I did a speech in a room with an actor, and the whole fucking set was in tears when I finished. I was like, ‘Okay. I’m on the right page.’ That shit is not in the movie!”

Sam, finally, understood why the scene-stealing moments have been minimize from the movie. “It wasn’t my movie, and they weren’t trying to make me a star.”

“That was one of the first times that I saw that shit happen,” Sam added. “There are things that I’ve done in other movies where I said, ‘Wait a minute. Why did you take that moment out of the movie?’ Because the moment, in that movie, it’s bigger than the movie.”

Sam is not letting his lack of award nods sluggish him down anytime quickly. He is at the moment on the helm of the Disney+ sequence, Secret Invasion, reprising his function as Nick Fury, and he was just lately nominated for Tony Award for his involvement in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson.

In 2021, Sam obtained an Honorary Academy Award for his spectacular filmography. He informed Vulture, “[It] didn’t feel honorary, just felt like I was getting an Oscar. I earned it. I worked for it. 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.”

“I am a firm believer of that bullshit that they used to tell us, ‘There are no small parts, only small actors.'”

Bravo, Mr. Jackson. Bravo.