Halle Berry:
Oscars race row is 'heartbreaking'
Halle Berry on
Oscar Diversity Crisis: ‘
It’s Heartbreaking’
Halle Berry: Oscars race row is 'heartbreaking'
Actor recalls
2002 speech in which she expressed hope that her win might open doors for African-American talent – and accuses
Hollywood of failing in its ‘truth-telling’ mission
Halle Berry, the only African-American actress to win an
Academy Award for Best Actress, is finally opening up about the Oscar diversity controversy.
Addressing what she called "the elephant in the room" at the 2016
Makers Conference on Tuesday,
Berry told reporters that she is "heartbroken" with the continued lack of representation African-Americans receive in Hollywood.
When she won
Best Actress for
Monsters Ball in
2001, Berry says, "I believed that in that moment, that when I said [in my acceptance speech], 'The door tonight has been opened,' I believed that with every bone in my body that this was going to incite change because this door, this barrier, had been broken.
"And to sit here almost 15 years later, and knowing that another woman of color has not walked through that door, is heartbreaking," she explained. "
It's heartbreaking because I thought that moment was bigger than me. It's heartbreaking to start to think maybe it wasn't bigger than me.
Maybe it wasn't.
And I so desperately felt like it was."
Since Berry's historic win, only three African-American actresses have been nominated for the award:
Gabourey Sidibe in 2009 for
Precious,
Viola Davis in
2011 for
The Help and 9-year-old
Quvenzhané Wallis in
2012 for
Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Halle Berry Calls Oscar Diversity
Troubles 'Heartbreaking'
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