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While speaking to Oprah Winfrey at the Tuesday taping of her SuperSoul Conversations From Times Square TV special, Bradley Cooper revealed that missing out on a Best Director Oscar nomination for A Star Is Born left him feeling less than his best._  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 6, 2019 6:33 PM UTC While speaking to Oprah Winfrey at the Tuesday taping of her SuperSoul Conversations From Times Square TV special, Bradley Cooper revealed that missing out on a Best Director Oscar nomination for A Star Is Born left him feeling less than his best.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 6, 2019 6:33 PM UTC Even famous Hollywood actors get embarrassed sometimes. While speaking to [Oprah Winfrey](http://time.com/5451761/michelle-obama-oprah/) at the Tuesday taping of her _SuperSoul Conversations_ _From Times Square_ TV special, [Bradley Cooper](http://time.com/5407925/bradley-cooper-lady-gaga/) revealed that missing out on a Best Director Oscar nomination for [_A Star Is Born_](http://time.com/5382763/a-star-is-born-review/)left him feeling less than his best. “I was not surprised, I’m never surprised about not getting nominated,” [he said](https://people.com/movies/bradley-cooper-embarassed-oscar-best-director-snub/) of [the snub](http://time.com/5506895/2019-oscar-nominations-snubs/). “The first thing I felt was embarrassment, actually. I felt embarrassed that I didn’t do my part…Like, ‘Oh gosh, I didn’t do my job.'” However, Cooper went on to admit that, deep down, he knows the awards shouldn’t be what matters. “But the truth is, even if I got the nomination, that should not give me any sense of whether I did my job or not,” he said. “That’s the trick. The trick is to make something you believe in and you work hard.” _A Star Is Born_ was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture. Cooper, Lady Gaga and Sam Elliott received nods for Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. _Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations From Times Square_ will air on Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. ET on OWN. ## Transcript [ APPLAUSE ] How are you? [ UNKNOWN ] Good. [ APPLAUSE ] Good, thank you for being here. And at sitting in the audience is whole time watching everybody else. Yeah, it was incredible. [ UNKNOWN ] here is my friend and publicist said, there are 12 people that [ UNKNOWN ] nomination yesterday From A Star is Born and I just thought wow. It's just icing on the cake. To be able to work with people and have them be recognized by the Academy for A Star is Born is incredible. So to be in that world, I remember the first time I was nominated, Daniel Day Lewis, I was in the same category with Daniel Day Lewis. And Denzel Washington and Hugh Jackman. And it was just, you know, to be there this year with Christian Bale, Viggo Mortensen, and Remy Malik. And to be a director now. It's so surreal though, to be honest. I mean it doesn't make any sense. So I just try to breathe through it Be present for it and take all the goodness I can from it. But that's a great experience in that. Like you said, you have to have love to put the work in. Yes. So if it's love to get an oscar, that's not enough love to put the work that's needed. And nobody who ever gets one is thinking about, when you're making that movie, gee, this is gonna be an Oscar, yeah. No, it's the joy of doing it. I mean, and that's why, thank God, you're able to put so much work in. This is more about just getting through it, really. This space? 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