Johnny Depp says he doesn't want to win an Oscar - but a nomination is fine

The actor says he doesn't want to win an Oscar as he is not competitive
Nominations are just fine: Johnny Depp does not want to win an Oscar
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Emma Powell13 October 2015
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Johnny Depp has revealed he does not want to win an Academy Award – but nominations are great.

The 52-year-old actor said winning an Oscar would put him in competition with his fellow actors, something he would not be comfortable with.

"The idea of winning means that you're in competition with someone and I'm not in competition with anybody," Depp told BBC Newsbeat at the London premiere of Black Mass.

"I just stick to my guns and do what I want to do. Sometimes people don't like it but that's alright."

Black Mass London Gala Screening at the BFI London Film Festival

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Depp – who has received three nominations for Pirates of the Caribbean (2003), Finding Neverland (2004) and Sweeney Todd (2007) – continued: "I don't want to win one of those things ever, you know.

"I don't want to have to talk. They gave me one of those things, like a nomination, two or three times. A nomination is plenty."

Depp – who has been famed for his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in recent years – was also asked if he was flattered or insulted by talk of his role as Black Mass' James 'Whitey' Bulger being a comeback.

"What did I come back from? The dead?” he asked.

"I haven't done anything different in this than I have in any other film."

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