Halle Berry waiting for the next black actor to win Oscars

Halle Berry is the first and only African-American woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actor and she said the fact that no other woman of colour has won in the category since then is “heartbreaking.” 

The 49-year-old actor had given an emotional acceptance speech about the importance of her Best Actor win for Monster’s Ball when she became the first black woman to win the award.

Berry said 15 years back she felt sure that her victory was a big win for all actors and actores of colour, reported ABC News.

“Honestly, that win almost 15 years ago was iconic, it was important to me, but I had the knowing in the moment that it was bigger than me,” the X-Men star said during a panel at the 2016 Makers Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. “I believed that in that moment, that when I said, ‘The door tonight has been opened...,’ I believed that with every bone in my body that this was going to incite change because this door, this barrier, had been broken. “And to sit here almost 15 years later, and knowing that another woman of colour has not walked through that door, is heartbreaking. It’s heartbreaking, because I thought that moment was bigger than me. It’s heartbreaking to start to think maybe it wasn’t bigger than me. Maybe it wasn’t. And I so desperately felt like it was,” Berry said.