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Berrys Oscar hopes

Berry’s Oscar hopes

By IANS

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LOS ANGELES: Hollywood actress Halle Berry believes that she had paved the way for diversity for Academy Awards when she bagged the Best Actress Award in 2002. The 49-year-old actress, who won the Best Actress Award for her role in the 2001 film Monsters Ball, says it’s heartbreaking not to see another woman of colour receiving the award since then, reports femalefirst.co.uk. Speaking about the controversy surrounding this year’s ceremony because of the lack of black actors nominated in any of the categories, she said, “I believed that in that moment, that when I said in my acceptance speech, ‘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.”