Samuel L. Jackson stated that the bad fiction of 1996’s A Time to Kill prevented it from winning an Oscar. The actor talked about this in an interview. Vulture.
According to the star, his work in the drama Joel Schumacher had a chance to bring him the coveted golden statuette in the “Best Supporting Actor” category. Jackson complained that the final cut of the film deprived his character of a number of key scenes in which the actor worked so hard.
“There were parts that were important to understand my hero’s motivation and were simply cut as a result. When I watch the movie, “what happens?” I thought. I think if it wasn’t for these editing decisions, I would have won an Oscar,” Jackson said.
A Time to Kill is a courtroom drama starring Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock. Samuel L. Jackson played the role of the father of a girl who is raped and nearly killed by a group of gangsters. Desperate to find justice in the courtroom, the boy’s father commits a lynching. Now he’s the defendant, and McConaughey’s attorney is trying to save the man from the death penalty by exposing the flaws of the judicial system and the racism that is growing in the state.
For this role, Jackson was nominated for an Oscar, but lost to Ed Wood star Martin Landau.
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