Halle Berry Talks Winning First Oscar 20 Years Ago

Twenty years ago, Halle Berry became the first ever and only black woman to win the Academy Awards for Best Actress. The award was for her outstanding performance in her role as Leticia Musgrove in the film Monster’s Ball in 2002.

This Sunday’s Academy Award geared Halle Berry to talk a walk down memory lane. On Friday, Halle took to her Twitter account to tweet about how memorable the Academy Award she won twenty years ago for Best Actress as Leticia Musgrove in the film Monster’s Ball in 2002 is to her.

Halle wrote “20 years ago, this week, I walked through that door,” She captioned her post, which was accompanied by a photograph of herself holding the coveted film award. “I will never get over this moment!”

The star of Cat Woman, went ahead to show her gratitude by thanking The Academy, Lionsgate, Lee Daniels, and Marc Forster, with a red heart emoji.

Hale Berry – Opens The Door For Other Women Of Color

In her acceptance speech, Berry said “This moment is so much bigger than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. It’s for the women that stand beside me, Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, Vivica Fox,” she added “And it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.”

In the 2002 Academy Awards, Berry was toe to toe against Nicole Kidman who acted as Satine in Moulin Rouge, Judi Dench who played the part of Iris Murdoch in Iris, Sissy Spacek- acted as Ruth Fowler in, In the Bedroom, and Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones’s Diary, in the category of Best Actress.

Berry’s part as Leticia Musgrove in the film Monster’s Ball was, a woman who had an affair with her convicted husband’s executioner. The film also starred Billy Bob Thornton, Heath Ledger, Peter Boyle, Sean Combs, and Mos Def, among others.

Berry has remained the only woman of color in history to ever hold the Best Actress Award in Academy Award.
Halle Berry Expresses Disappointment That No Other Black Actress Has Won The Title After Her for Two Decades

Halle Berry Spoilers – Dissapointment

Recently, Berry, 55, revealed to the New York Times how disappointed she was that after two decades, no black woman has won the title of Best Actress after her win.

While referring to the Golden Globe Awards that went to Spacek, 72, she said “Back in those days, if you didn’t win the Globe, you really didn’t get the Academy Award, so I’d pretty much resigned myself to believing, ‘It’s great to be here, but I’m not going to win.'”

Despite going ahead to win, she felt her success didn’t open the door “The fact that there’s no one standing next to me is heartbreaking.”

She poured out that “We can’t always judge success or progress by how many awards we have,” continuing, she said “Awards are the icing on the cake — they’re your peers saying you were exceptionally excellent this year — but does that mean that if we don’t get the exceptionally excellent nod, that we were not great, and we’re not successful, and we’re not changing the world with our art, and our opportunities aren’t growing?”

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