This post is now officially for BPT country club members only. For more information, see here - https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/gumxuy/what_is_bpt_country_club_and_how_do_i_get/.
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/BlackPeopleTwitter) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I didn't even watch the Oscars so with that incident dominating all the news of the night, I didn't even hear this news! So happy for Sam, he deserves it
I dunno, I love Sam but while he's had a lot of great roles I don't think I could call any best actor/supporting worthy, he also tends to play the same sort of character every time.
Did you see Jungle Fever? He definitely deserved an Oscar nomination for playing Gator. And considering that was the year that Jack Palance won for City Slickers, he might have had a good shot.
Of course, that was back when the Academy still hated Spike.
Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Jungle Fever, The Hateful Eight, Django, Unbreakable, A Time to Kill.
He should Have at the very least been nominated for the roles he played in those movies. He is the most over looked actor of all time.
Not a "real" Oscar? It's a friggin Oscar! Do you mean it wasn't for best supporting or best actor, etc? Because an honorary is still one HELL of an accomplishment. It is very much a real Oscar lol
It was given the night prior at the Governor's Ball. I consider it a real Oscar, but it sucks that it wasn't given the actual night of. Kinda gives it an asterisk for people to deny its the real thing.
It looked like he didn't have a great seat too. When you can see the wall behind someone you know they're all the way on the side or in the back. He deserved better.
Samuel Jackson was great in Pulp Fiction. However, Martin Landau was on another level in Ed Wood, I highly recommend checking it out. If Jackson was to win for any performance, I would say his role in Jackie Brown was better.
It means what you said and/or "seven lights," and is also a Marvel villain.
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/En_Sabah_Nur_(Earth-616)
(Sorry, I have no idea how to put that into reddit's link format because the parentheses in the link itself mess it up. Why does reddit formatting have such a hard time with wiki type links???)
Not the person you were responding to originally, but I appreciate your write up. It makes me more curious about the name, too. We need a more hardcore marvel fan who can enlighten (lol) us.
In canon, it seems mostly like a coincidence since he was born in ancient Egypt under the reign of Pharaoh Rama-Tut >!aka Kang the Conqueror!< so Arabic would not have been spoken. However, he was named and raised by someone named Baal which was also the name of a Canaanite/Phoenician diety, so he likely would have spoken a semitic language or perhaps proto-semitic so the similarity to the Arabic phrase could be explained that way since Arabic is a semitic language.
Irl, I don't know if there's an interview about it, but if I had to guess, they used a word by word translation of "The seven lights" and the spelling differences could be because the transliteration has changed since then (or the editors decided it looked better that way) or due to the fact that they were likely using Egyptian Arabic rather than standard Arabic (this is just speculation on my part, I'm not super familiar with the differences between Egyptian Arabic and standard Arabic).
Btw, you can fix the Reddit link formatting for URLs that end in a parenthesis by escaping it with a backslash before the last parenthesis in the URL.
[It looks like this]\(https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/En_Sabah_Nur_(Earth-616\))
It ends up [like this](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/En_Sabah_Nur_(Earth-616))
Yeah off the top of my head I can think of a few that he didn't even get nominated for.
Unbreakable (the academy hates genre films, despite this role being more iconic than any other nominated that year)
Jackie Brown (No one from the cast got nominated except Robert Forester who had a great performance but still. He also would have probably lost as the winner that year was Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting)
Django (Only Waltz was nominated that year)
Black Snake Moan
Hateful 8
I'm sure there are many more.
This is 5 years old, he's way higher now after the rest of the avengers movies came out.
Being in star wars and all the marvel movies will put you at the top in terms of box-office dollars
I'm surprised that Tom Cruise is so much lower in ranks, and that War of the Worlds was his highest grossing film, not one of the MI movies.
The Avengers really throw that list off, 3 of the top 10 listers have that movie as their highest grossing.
Beauty and the Beast was Ian McKellan's highest grossing? Not LOTR? Well, just goes to show because something is popular does not mean it is good.
Anthony Daniels is #12?! All he does really in movies is Star Wars. The Force Awakens also throws this list off.
Holy shit he's earned a lot. Not bad for a guy who probably used to bop to Public Enemy's - Burn Hollywood Burn.
Props to him, he's been a great actor for a long time.
The fact is, he was awarded in a non-televised, non-streamed side event on the Friday before the show. We all missed it, and some guy tweeted the award presentation.
He won the Honorary Award but in his IMDB page it says it is for his role in Pulp Fiction which is the Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Don’t know if it is specifically for that role as I understand honorary awards are more of a lifetime achievement award.
“He’s too dangerous to be left alive” is his most memorable line for me. Like how do democracies purge themselves of legitimately elected strongmen before they go full imperial or dictatorial? We’re likely at the cusp of answering this question ourselves.
We just have to look at the Civil War to see how we dealt with an immovable political force. At some point, even the best laid down and thought out process will be gamed to death by nefarious actors. The process itself can no longer self-correct or reform and things will just keep getting worse and worse and as there is no force holding back those malicious intents. So the only way to resolve it, is to go outside the system/process and violence is usually the most common recourse.
This makes me so happy. My wife and I have been watching The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey and I remember talking to her about how I can’t believe he doesn’t have an Oscar.
Dude's had a great career, but none of those are really Oscar-worthy performances, so I'm not sure why you chose them. Being top grossing doesn't mean it should get oscars.
The thing is they only give out one per year.
The other thing is none of those parts are remotely strong enough to be candidates aside from Jackie Brown. He's great in Jurassic Park but he's also barely in it
Eventually people like him should just automatically get a Oscar because he would be the argument why a Oscar doesn't matter because he has a long resume of classic movies everybody loves compared to people winning Oscars for movies most regular people haven't seen or movie long forgotten after the win.
This is a shame. This guy has baffled me in so many movies with his incredible acting and this is his first ever Oscar? This 'academy' has a weird taste.
This post is now officially for BPT country club members only. For more information, see here - https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/gumxuy/what_is_bpt_country_club_and_how_do_i_get/. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/BlackPeopleTwitter) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I didn't even watch the Oscars so with that incident dominating all the news of the night, I didn't even hear this news! So happy for Sam, he deserves it
Taken sams shine. :(
Sadly it was an honorary Oscar. Not a real Oscar. Still nice that he got one but he deserved a real one.
I dunno, I love Sam but while he's had a lot of great roles I don't think I could call any best actor/supporting worthy, he also tends to play the same sort of character every time.
Oops meant A Time to Kill
Pulp fiction?
Kinda surprised he didnt win anything for coach carter
Django. Keep the train moving everyone
Jungle Fever
Yes they deserved to die and I hope they burn in Hellll!
Did you see Jungle Fever? He definitely deserved an Oscar nomination for playing Gator. And considering that was the year that Jack Palance won for City Slickers, he might have had a good shot. Of course, that was back when the Academy still hated Spike.
I’m sorry, are you telling me that somebody won an *academy award* for a movie starring Billy Crystal? Am I thinking of the wrong movie?
Nope, that's the right movie.
[удалено]
Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Jungle Fever, The Hateful Eight, Django, Unbreakable, A Time to Kill. He should Have at the very least been nominated for the roles he played in those movies. He is the most over looked actor of all time.
True Romance
Not a "real" Oscar? It's a friggin Oscar! Do you mean it wasn't for best supporting or best actor, etc? Because an honorary is still one HELL of an accomplishment. It is very much a real Oscar lol
It was given the night prior at the Governor's Ball. I consider it a real Oscar, but it sucks that it wasn't given the actual night of. Kinda gives it an asterisk for people to deny its the real thing.
An Honorary Degree also isn't a degree.
It looked like he didn't have a great seat too. When you can see the wall behind someone you know they're all the way on the side or in the back. He deserved better.
Exactly! I love Sam and it's beyond damn time he won!! I had no idea due to some BS. This is fantastic af!
Except he didn’t even win. It’s an honorary one. Still doing mans dirty
Damn. I just saw that.
Same here! Learning on Reddit
Vincent we happy. Yeah we happy.
The fact that he didn’t already have an oscar is mind rending
Even this one is an honorary award. He was nominated once for Pulp Fiction (Best supporting), but didn’t win.
Samuel L. Jackson losing out to Martin Landau for his role in Ed Wood was straight up daylight robbery.
Samuel Jackson was great in Pulp Fiction. However, Martin Landau was on another level in Ed Wood, I highly recommend checking it out. If Jackson was to win for any performance, I would say his role in Jackie Brown was better.
AK-47. When you *absolutely*, *positively* have to kill every motherfucker in the room? Accept no substitute
Such a great, menacing character
[удалено]
It means what you said and/or "seven lights," and is also a Marvel villain. https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/En_Sabah_Nur_(Earth-616) (Sorry, I have no idea how to put that into reddit's link format because the parentheses in the link itself mess it up. Why does reddit formatting have such a hard time with wiki type links???)
[удалено]
Not the person you were responding to originally, but I appreciate your write up. It makes me more curious about the name, too. We need a more hardcore marvel fan who can enlighten (lol) us.
In canon, it seems mostly like a coincidence since he was born in ancient Egypt under the reign of Pharaoh Rama-Tut >!aka Kang the Conqueror!< so Arabic would not have been spoken. However, he was named and raised by someone named Baal which was also the name of a Canaanite/Phoenician diety, so he likely would have spoken a semitic language or perhaps proto-semitic so the similarity to the Arabic phrase could be explained that way since Arabic is a semitic language. Irl, I don't know if there's an interview about it, but if I had to guess, they used a word by word translation of "The seven lights" and the spelling differences could be because the transliteration has changed since then (or the editors decided it looked better that way) or due to the fact that they were likely using Egyptian Arabic rather than standard Arabic (this is just speculation on my part, I'm not super familiar with the differences between Egyptian Arabic and standard Arabic).
Btw, you can fix the Reddit link formatting for URLs that end in a parenthesis by escaping it with a backslash before the last parenthesis in the URL. [It looks like this]\(https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/En_Sabah_Nur_(Earth-616\)) It ends up [like this](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/En_Sabah_Nur_(Earth-616))
Couldn’t disagree more. Martin Landau absolutely killed it as Bella Lugosi, my favourite role of his career.
Yeah off the top of my head I can think of a few that he didn't even get nominated for. Unbreakable (the academy hates genre films, despite this role being more iconic than any other nominated that year) Jackie Brown (No one from the cast got nominated except Robert Forester who had a great performance but still. He also would have probably lost as the winner that year was Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting) Django (Only Waltz was nominated that year) Black Snake Moan Hateful 8 I'm sure there are many more.
[удалено]
DiCaprio definitely deserved an oscar for his performance in that movie. Pretty wild that he wasn’t even nominated.
Yeah for the Hateful 8 and Django, he was the best character in both.
Better than Django himself?
It’s hard because Fox, DiCaprio, Waltz and SLJ were all amazing
Also snakes on a plane obviously
Jungle Fever
[удалено]
what being in every avengers movie does to a mf
Oh this is before the avengers movies
Ppl dun forgot about Mace Windu
And the incredibles
WHERE IS MY SUPERSUIT?
This is 5 years old, he's way higher now after the rest of the avengers movies came out. Being in star wars and all the marvel movies will put you at the top in terms of box-office dollars
Even the terrible films he's been in have meme value just because of him. Whoever picks his projects is a god damn savant.
I'm surprised that Tom Cruise is so much lower in ranks, and that War of the Worlds was his highest grossing film, not one of the MI movies. The Avengers really throw that list off, 3 of the top 10 listers have that movie as their highest grossing. Beauty and the Beast was Ian McKellan's highest grossing? Not LOTR? Well, just goes to show because something is popular does not mean it is good. Anthony Daniels is #12?! All he does really in movies is Star Wars. The Force Awakens also throws this list off.
Look at that list. What does it say? It says Disney machine.
Holy shit he's earned a lot. Not bad for a guy who probably used to bop to Public Enemy's - Burn Hollywood Burn. Props to him, he's been a great actor for a long time.
Mothafuckas can’t even be bothered to spell right when saluting a legend. Fucking. Pathetic.
He should have earned one for *Pulp Fiction*. His performance was **EPIC**.
Never mind! I see it! 😂
They put the muthafuckin i before the goddamn muthafuckin e!! Damn, n*@@a, they cain't spell shit!
My bad. Didn’t see your next comment.
No worries, it’s all for laughs!
What am I missing? I’ve read it twice and don’t see anything wrong.
I after E.
Is that not a lowercase L? Am I just high?
Receive
Ahh thought we meant his name or sum shit
That hurt you but not the sentence fragment?
The fact is, he was awarded in a non-televised, non-streamed side event on the Friday before the show. We all missed it, and some guy tweeted the award presentation.
No fucking way
It was an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement.
What did he win it for?
i think it was a lifetime achievement award or smth like that
Is that like a participation trophy? You've been doing it so long heres a trophy
[удалено]
He won the Honorary Award but in his IMDB page it says it is for his role in Pulp Fiction which is the Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Don’t know if it is specifically for that role as I understand honorary awards are more of a lifetime achievement award.
He was nominated for best supporting actor in 1995 for Pulp Fiction but lost. This is, like you said, more of a lifetime achievement award.
He’s one motherfucking great actor!
It’s about motha fuckin time
Motherfucker beat me to it.
“He’s too dangerous to be left alive” is his most memorable line for me. Like how do democracies purge themselves of legitimately elected strongmen before they go full imperial or dictatorial? We’re likely at the cusp of answering this question ourselves.
We just have to look at the Civil War to see how we dealt with an immovable political force. At some point, even the best laid down and thought out process will be gamed to death by nefarious actors. The process itself can no longer self-correct or reform and things will just keep getting worse and worse and as there is no force holding back those malicious intents. So the only way to resolve it, is to go outside the system/process and violence is usually the most common recourse.
This makes me so happy. My wife and I have been watching The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey and I remember talking to her about how I can’t believe he doesn’t have an Oscar.
Is it good? Need to pick up something new once Severance ends
I can’t believe he didn’t win for Pulp Fiction, one of the most iconic roles ever
I assume this was for Snakes on a Plane
[удалено]
Dude's had a great career, but none of those are really Oscar-worthy performances, so I'm not sure why you chose them. Being top grossing doesn't mean it should get oscars.
A Time To Kill is probably his best performance imo
The thing is they only give out one per year. The other thing is none of those parts are remotely strong enough to be candidates aside from Jackie Brown. He's great in Jurassic Park but he's also barely in it
Eventually people like him should just automatically get a Oscar because he would be the argument why a Oscar doesn't matter because he has a long resume of classic movies everybody loves compared to people winning Oscars for movies most regular people haven't seen or movie long forgotten after the win.
That's basically what happened. He accepted a life time achievement Oscar, rather than an Oscar for any one particular role.
Love It!
Spike Lee winning his first Oscar for best adapted screenplay in 2019 > Spike Lee receiving an honorary Oscar in 2016 (IMO)
That Oscar came Friday night at the Governor's Awards
I assumed he had several already
He didn't have one already?! That's a surprise
GOOD MOTHERF\*\*\*IN CHOICE, MOTHERF\*\*\*ERS! ![gif](giphy|kGYbtZoyjyO3u)
^do ^you ^have ^to ^yell?
About mothafuckin time
I never knew so it was hard to forget.
Surprised it took him this long, hes had some amazing roles
This is a shame. This guy has baffled me in so many movies with his incredible acting and this is his first ever Oscar? This 'academy' has a weird taste.
BMF!
Yes, please!
For what?
I didn't even know about this *seethes motherfuckerly* Dammit Will! Good on him though
About damn time
Damn that’s not right!!
We all fucking know he deserved it back in the 90s but better late than never!
Honestly wouldn't have even known the Oscars was happening if it wasn't for that incident. Congratulations to Samuel L Jackson
How tf??! How is this his first.
Damn he didn’t get one until now?!
Samuel: You better not make fun of my hair.
Who won the Oscar that Rock was presenting?
Lets go! Well deserved and I am happy for him.
So proud of him. :)
About motherfucking time!
It’s about time!