"When the Oscar nominations came out that year," he says, "I didn't get nominated, but there was like three people from Bugsy, so my wife and I said, 'Well, let's go see Bugsy.' And we're sitting there, and at the end of it we're like, 'Really? Really?' And she actually cried about it. And I think that was the thing that kind of broke us about the whole Academy Awards milieu and whatever it is."
He continues, "When I did get nominated, bullshit started immediately. All of a sudden there were these phone calls going, 'We're gonna [push] John for best actor and you for best supporting actor because we can't have both of you in the same category. I'm like, 'Okay, whatever that means.' Then, all of a sudden, I start going to these things and people start telling me, 'You were amazing in that movie and I'd really like to vote for you, but [Ed Wood's] Martin Landau's been nominated, like, four times, and this might be the last time he has a chance.' I say, 'Oh, so it's an age thing?' And they go, 'What?' And I go, 'Well, Morgan Freeman's old, too. Is he gonna win?' And they go, 'What?!' I was already cynical about it at that point, so the more things I went to that I didn't win, the more I got it. Martin Landau was winning, and then Raul Julia [a nominee in actor in a miniseries or TV movie category, in which Jackson also was a nominee for Against the Wall] died so it was kinda like, 'Oh, shit, that's it for the Golden Globe — hang that up.' "
