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In a new interview with APSamuel revealed that he doesn’t think being nominated for an award is enough.

“We’ve been in the business long enough to know what it means when people say, ‘It’s an honor to be nominated.’ “It’s an honor to win,” Samuel said in a video for The Associated Press while sitting down with Michael Potts to do press for his film The Piano Lesson.

Samuel said that most people forget about the Oscar-nominated performances and even some of the winners. “You get nominated and people say, ‘Yeah, I remember that.’ Or most people forget. It’s a competition you don’t willingly participate in. ‘Let me do my scene, so you can remember who I am.’ Was.’ They nominate you and people ask, ‘What’s the movie you’re nominated for? What’s the name of that thing?’ And after it’s over, it’s hard for people to remember who won.”

More about Samuel L. Jackson

Despite his renowned career, Samuel has only been nominated for an Oscar once – for Pulp Fiction in 1995. He was presented with an Honorary Academy Award in 2021. Last summer, he told Vulture that the award “doesn’t feel honorable” and that it “feels like I’m getting an Oscar”. In 2022, he told The Times that he deserved to win the 1995 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor over Martin Landau (who won it for Ed Wood).

In an interview with Vulture last year, he shared that he was robbed of a second chance to win an Oscar when he wasn’t even nominated for Joel Schumacher’s 1996 legal drama, A Time to Kill.