Halle Berry says Oscars not ‘designed’ for Black women: ‘We have to stop coveting’

Film industry and women 50-plus discrimination

The 95-year history of the film industry’s Oscars awards has persistent and sizable gender gaps in 50-plus actors being nominated for and winning Academy Awards. “While the 50-plus gender gap is shrinking among winners of Best Actor/Best Actress, it has grown among winners of Best Supporting Actor/Best Supporting Actress”, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media says in a report. The Institute concludes that the industry needs more stories that…

Halle Berry says Oscars not ‘designed’ for Black women: ‘We have to stop coveting’

Monster’s Ball star is only Black woman to win best actress Oscar in 97-year-old history of Academy Awards

»The system is not really made for us«: Halle Berry is still the only black woman who has been honored with the Oscar as the best leading actress. She has a sobering advice for her colleagues.

Halle Berry Reflects on Being the Only Black Best Actress Oscar Winner: “Did It Really Change Anything for Women of Color?”

Halle Berry is opening up about being the first and only Black woman to have won the best actress Oscar and if it really changed anything.

Worst "Best Actress Winner" from this decade so far?

The only black woman to win the Best Actress statuette takes part in the documentary 'Number One on the Call Sheet', in which Taraji P. Henson and Whoopi Goldberg also criticize the award, Halle Berry stated that she now believes that her historic Oscar win in 2002 - she won best actress for the movie “The Last Supper” - was an exception. For this reason, according to Berry, other black actresses should stop “coveting” the Academy Award. In almo…