Samuel L. Jackson claims he was ROBBED of an Oscar due deleted scenes from a certain movie

Samuel L. Jackson believes he was robbed of an Oscar for his performance in A Time to Kill.

In the 1996 drama, Jackson plays a father who takes revenge on two white men after his daughter is abducted and raped in Canton, Mississippi. Matthew McConaughey plays the lawyer who is employed to defend his client from the electric chair.

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Both actors received positive reviews for their respective performances, with Jackson receiving a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

However, the iconic A-lister reckons he would have won an Academy Award if director Joel Schumacher didn't cut some vital scenes.

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"The things they took out kept me from getting an Oscar. Really, motherf**kers? You just took that s**t from me?" Jackson explained to Vulture.

"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 s**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."

Did the deleted scenes change the movie?

Jackson believes that the omission of certain scenes change the perspective of how his character, Carl Lee Hailey, was perceived as he was initially a much more sympathetic person.

"That's how I played that character throughout," he continued.

"And there were specific things we shot, things I did to make sure that she understood that, but in the editing process, they got taken out," he added. "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?'"

Jackson has only been nominated for one acting Oscar, for Pulp Fiction, in his career, but he did receive an honorary Academy Award at the 2022 ceremony.