Now there’s disbelief that she continues to be the one Black girl to win the perfect actress Oscar.
“It did not open the door,” Berry mentioned. “The truth that there is no one standing subsequent to me is heartbreaking.”
In her emotional acceptance speech, she famous that “It has been 74 years,” on the time, in reference to the truth that she was the primary Black girl to win the award.
Two Black males, Jamie Foxx and Forest Whitaker, have received the Oscar for finest actor since then.
Berry says the dearth of one other win by a Black girl in the perfect actress class doesn’t detract from the good work that has been and is being executed by her fellow Black actresses.
“We won’t all the time choose success or progress by what number of awards we’ve,” she informed the Instances. “Awards are the icing on the cake — they’re your friends saying you had been exceptionally glorious this yr — however does that imply that if we do not get the exceptionally glorious nod, that we weren’t nice, and we’re not profitable, and we’re not altering the world with our artwork, and our alternatives aren’t rising?”
There are not any Black girls nominated in the perfect actress class this yr.
The 94th Academy Awards airs Sunday on ABC.