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Halle Berryis taking a stroll down memory lane.
Exactly 20 years after she was awarded the Best Actress Oscar for her role inMonster’s Ballduring the 74thAcademy Awardsin 2002, the actress, 55, reflected on her win in apost shared on TwitterFriday.
TheX-Menstar also expressed gratitude for others within her post, thanking The Academy, Lionsgate,Lee Daniels, and Marc Forster, alongside a red heart emoji.
InMonter’s Ball, Berry starred as Leticia Musgrove, a woman who has an affair with her convicted husband’s executioner. The film also featuresBilly Bob Thornton,Heath Ledger, Peter Boyle,Sean Combs, and Mos Def, among others.
During the 2002 Academy Awards, Berry was up againstNicole Kidman(Moulin Rouge),Judi Dench(Iris),Sissy Spacek(In the Bedroom), andRenée Zellweger(Bridget Jones’s Diary) in the Best Actress category.
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“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,” Berry said during heracceptance speech.
“And it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened,” the Oscar winner added.
She remains the only woman of color to win Best Actress in the history of the awards show.
Berry recently opened up toThe New York Timesabout her Academy Award win, as well as her disappointment in how, after two decades, no other Black actress has received the title.
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“Back in those days, if you didn’t win the Globe, you really didn’t get the Academy Award,” Berry said, referring to theGolden Globethat went to Spacek, 72. “So I’d pretty much resigned myself to believing, ‘It’s great to be here, but I’m not going to win.’ "
But even though she did go on to win the prize, Berry continued, “It didn’t open the door. The fact that there’s no one standing next to me is heartbreaking.”
source: people.com
