April 3, 2025
Within the documentary, Halle Berry questions her 2002 Oscar win: Did it actually change something for girls of shade? For my sisters…our journey?”
As the one Black lady to have gained an Oscar for Main Actress, Halle Berry urges Black actresses to cease coveting the Academy Awards within the just lately launched documentary, “Quantity One on the Name Sheet.”
“The system isn’t actually designed for us, and so we’ve got to cease coveting that which isn’t for us,” the Catwoman actress says, in response to The Guardian. As Berry speaks in Half Two of the two-part documentary movie occasion, which additionally options award-winning actresses Taraji P. Henson and Whoopi Goldberg, she reminds those that artwork is basically for touching the lives of different individuals. It’s been over twenty years since Berry gained her Oscar in 2002, however she says that years later, the win has pressured her to query, “Did it actually matter? Did it actually change something for girls of shade? For my sisters? For our journey?”
Of 15 Black ladies who’ve been up for a Main Actress Oscar, solely two have been nominated greater than as soon as for the award—Cynthia Erivo for “Depraved” and Viola Davis for “Harriet.” In “Quantity One on the Name Sheet,” Berry factors out her hopes in 2021 that nominees Andra Day and Viola Davis would take residence an Oscar. “I felt 100% certain that this was the yr one in every of them was gonna stroll away with this award,” she says. “For equally totally different and exquisite causes, they each deserved it, and I assumed for certain.”
Goldberg, who was awarded the Oscar for Finest Supporting Actress in 1990 for “Ghost,” additionally questions the Academy’s selections for main actress winners. “Wait a minute, none of us have been adequate?” she asks. “No one? In all of those individuals, no one? … What are we lacking right here? It is a dialog individuals have yearly.” Henson believes the trade fails to see Black ladies as leads. “They provide us supporting [actress awards] like they offer out sweet canes,” the “Assume Like A Man” star says within the documentary. “That simply –- I don’t know what to do with that.”
Tune into the voices of groundbreaking Black stars as they share their experiences in Hollywood, from touchdown life-changing roles to going through among the lowest moments of their careers.
Half two of “Quantity One on the Name Sheet: Black Main Girls in Hollywood” is obtainable to stream on Apple TV+. The movie was launched on March 29, following Half One, “Black Main Males in Hollywood,” which was launched for streaming on March 28.
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