Samuel L. Jackson Gets Candid About Never Winning An Oscar
The Avengers and Star Wars star Samuel L. Jackson opens up about never winning a competitive Oscar. Jackson in 2022 was honored by the Academy with a lifetime achievement Oscar. But the beloved actor has in fact never won an acting Academy Award in his long and storied career.
Jackson notoriously has been nominated for an acting Oscar only once in his life, snagging a nod for playing the hit-man Jules in Quentin Tarantino’s iconic Pulp Fiction. Later Jackson would take advantage of the acting reputation he established in films like Pulp Fiction to land roles in major franchise films, taking on Mace Windu in George Lucas’ Star Wars prequels and later becoming Nick Fury in the MCU. Today Jackson is one of the most iconic of all Hollywood stars and is without doubt one of the most quotable actors of all-time.
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Jackson for his part doesn’t seem that bothered that thus far he’s only won that single non-competitive Oscar. Speaking to the LA Times, Jackson admitted that he did get emotional while receiving his honorary Oscar this year from Denzel Washington (he even ran over to bear hug Washington during the ceremony) but said that winning Oscar gold is really not the priority in his career. He said:
As jaded as I wanted to be about it, you know thinking, “Well, I should have won an Oscar for this or should have won for that and it didn’t happen,” once I got over it many years ago, it wasn’t a big deal for me. I always have fun going to the Oscars. I always look forward to getting a gift basket for being a presenter. [Laughs] I give stuff to my relatives; my daughter and my wife would take stuff out. It’s cool. … But otherwise, I was past it. I was never going to let the Oscars be
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