The veteran actor Samuel L. Jackson has only received one Oscar nomination for his Pulp Fiction role (1995). However, Jackson reveals his frustrations over a scene cut from A Time to Kill (1996) that could have earned him an Academy Award consideration.

Jackson told Vulture in an interview that he was shocked that moments he believed were essential to the film were taken out or edited out. He was specifically torn over a scene that could have possibly won him an award.

Jackson said, “The things they took out kept me from getting an Oscar. Really, motherf**kers? You just took that sh*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 sh*t 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.”

Jackson has only received one Oscar nomination for Pulp Fiction, although he has been in 150-plus projects. He has, however, been presented with a life achievement honorary Oscar in 2022.

Jackson added that it was one of the first times that had happened to him. He explains that clips are taken out “Because the moment, in the movie, it’s bigger than the movie.”

Jackson played Carl Lee Hailey, a Mississippi man on trial for killing the two white men that raped his ten-year-old daughter. After seeing the movie, Jackson said his character’s perceptions were changed in editing.

Jackson said he played the character from the thought that “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.” Some scenes conveyed this, and those scenes were taken out. After the editing process, Jackson said, “And it looked like I killed those dudes and then planned every move to make sure that I was going to get away with it. When I saw it, I was sitting there like, What the f**k?”