- Samuel L. Jackson shared that he deserved to win the Oscar for best supporting actor over Martin Landau (“Ed Wood”) at the 1995 Academy Awards.
- The actor said he was robbed of a second chance to win an Oscar just a couple years later with Joel Schumacher’s 1996 legal drama “A Time to Kill,” co-starring Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock.
- The John Grisham adaptation starred Jackson as a man on trial in Mississippi for killing the two men who raped his daughter.
