Halle Berry is the only color actress who won the Oscar award 23 years ago.
Actress Halle Berry. Photo: Instagram
Halle Berry said that he now believes that his historical victory in Oscar, in 2002, for Monster’s Ball, was an anomaly and that, therefore, color actresses should no longer “crave ” at the Oscar prizes.
Berry, now 58 years old, is the only colorful woman who has won the Oscar in the history of almost 100 years of prizes, writes theguardian.com.
The nomination of Cynthia Erivo for Wicked earlier this year marks the first time that a woman of color was nominated several times to the main actress (previously nominated for Harriet). Only 15 women of color have ever been in competition for this award.
As part of the documentary number one on the call sheet, Berry said the 23 years from his Victoria “They forced me to wonder if it mattered? Has really changed something for women of color? For my sisters? For our trip? ”
Berry adds that he felt that the wave will change in 2021, when both Andra Day and Viola Davis were nominated for The United States vs Billie Hollay and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
“I felt 100% sure that this was the year in which one of them will leave with this prize”, she says, adding: “For equally different and beautiful reasons, both were worth it and I thought for sure”, Berry said.
However, both women lost Frances McDormand.
“The system is not really conceived for us, so we have to stop for what it is not for us. Because, at the end of the day, it is about” how can we reach people’s lives? “, And art is fundamental to it”, Halle Berry also mentioned.
The documentary also presents the pea pearas P Henson and Whoopi Goldberg expressing their astonishment on the shortage of the main winning actresses – and nominated.
“Wait a little, was none of us good enough?” Goldberg asks. “No one? Of all these people, no one? … What does we get rid of here? This is a conversation that people have every year. ”
Goldberg won the Oscar for the best supporting actress in 1990 for Ghost. 11 women of color have so far received this prize.
“I don’t think the industry really sees us as protagonists, you know?”, says Henson in the documentary. “We give us prizes for actresses in the secondary role as if they give candy. Simply – I don’t know what to do with it. Because what do you tell me? ”
