DECORATED actress Halle Berry made history as the first woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Twenty years following her historic win, Halle reflected on her Oscar victory and expressed her thoughts on the Hollywood industry.
During the 74th Academy Awards ceremony, Halle Berry won the year’s award for Best Actress.
She took home the gold for her leading performance in the 2001 drama film, Monster’s Ball.
On March 24, 2022, the actress spoke with The New York Times and the topic of that night from twenty years ago came up.
Halle recalled the 2002 awards season and her Golden Globes loss to the publication.
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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.'”
“Awards are the icing on the cake — they’re your peers saying you were exceptionally excellent this year.”
The actress added: “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?”
“We can’t always judge success or progress by how many awards we have.”
“It didn’t open the door, the fact that there’s no one standing next to me is heartbreaking.”
Halle further detailed: “You have to stay true to whatever got you to that place to get that award.”
“And for me, it was taking risks and doing things outside the box.”
The award-winning actress rose to prominence during the 1990s for her roles across film and television.
She starred in Boomerang, John Wick: Chapter 3, X-Men, Moonfall, and Die Another Day.
Per Celebrity Net Worth, Halle accumulated an estimated fortune of $90million.
In September 2000, she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Television Movie.
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