Who was the world's first African American to win best supporting
actress?
In 2002 actress Halle Berry made
history at the 74th Annual Academy Awards ceremony. It was here that Berry
picked up the award for Best Actress for her role in the 2001 movie Monster’s
Ball. In the film, Halle Berry is the wife of a prisoner on Death Row. After his
execution she and a prison guard fall in love. It is this prison guard that
carried out the execution of her husband.
Halle Berry had been in Hollywood for a while and
everyone knew her name. However, this award has now given her an added
distinction of being the first African American to win the award of Best
Supporting Actress from the prestigious Academy. Her acceptance speech was
extremely touching, very emotional and another moment in Oscar history that will
not soon be forgotten. She said in her speech, “This moment is so much bigger
than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. It’s
for the women that stand beside me – Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett and it’s for
every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door
tonight has been opened.”
The speech along with the place that this moment
now has in history is still something that is talked about today.
Halle Berry
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