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Features A NIGHT TO REMEMBER The progress promised by Denzel Washington's and Halle Berry's Oscar wins has been slow to materialize. My quest to find roles for people who look like me did not become easier, says Berry SPECIAL EDITION CHRIS MURPHY FREDERICK M. BROWN

The progress promised by Denzel Washington's and Halle Berry's Oscar wins has been slow to materialize. My quest to find roles for people who look like me did not become easier, says Berry SPECIAL EDITION CHRIS MURPHY FREDERICK M. BROWN

T HIS MOMENT IS so much bigger than me, Halle Berry said through sobs during her 2002 Oscar acceptance speech. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. It's for the women that stand beside me: Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, Vivica Fox. And it's for every nameless and faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

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With Two birds in one night. And so did my mother, who, thousands of miles away in suburban New Jersey, had gathered a cheering squad to root for everybody Black and cried as she watched Berry's speech.

, Daniels says now. It was surreal. It was out-of-body. Berry also remembers it as a blur. But what she does know is that her speech came from my collective consciousness of what I had been feeling all along about the shoulders of the women that I stand on. Only a few moments into the speech, she says, did reality sink in: I remember having the thought of, Oh shit, I'm actually up here. I think I won this thing.

PLAYING IT SAFE DOESN'T NECESSARILY GET YOU ANYWHERE. YOU HAVE TO TAKE CHANCES. ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE A BLACK WOMAN, YOU HAVE NO CHOICE. — HALLE BERRY

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Berry, then 35, became the first woman of color to win the best actress Oscar. As of now, she is also the last. In addition to Washington's award, Berry's watershed win came the same night as an honorary Oscar for Sidney Poitier, who became the first Black man to win a best actor Oscar in 1964. But much of the promise of that moment has failed to materialize. I'm heartbroken, Berry says about the continued lack of diversity among best actress winners. I would love to sit here today and say that meant something on that night which allowed five others to be standing there next to me in 20 years, right? That would be a huge win.

While her costar Mo'Nique won best supporting actress. QuvenzhanéWallis, Ruth Negga, Cynthia Erivo, and Andra Day have since earned their own lead actress nominations. Viola Davis has two, plus a supporting actress win for

Meanwhile, Washington's win was quickly followed by Jamie Foxx and Forest Whitaker, and with Will Smith leading the best actor race this year, there could soon be five Black men with lead acting Oscars but likely still one woman. There is something to be said about the fact that Oscar voters seem to vote for Black women when those women are experiencing pain or trauma and not when they are triumphant, or experiencing joy, or just having regular everyday experiences, says April Reign, a media strategist and diversity and inclusion advocate. I look at Gwyneth Paltrow in

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Reign has been paying close attention to the racial dynamics of the Academy since she founded the #OscarsSoWhite movement in 2015, when an all-white lineup of acting nominees prompted backlash and a major overhaul of the group's membership. Since then there have been signs of progress—

Best picture triumph, Mahershala Ali's two supporting actor Oscar wins, a long-overdue screenplay statue for Spike Lee. But basic milestones are still being crossed. Just last year,

Daniels, a two-time nominee, still likens the awards to a skewed popularity contest. Who sets the tone for who's favorite at the party for the most part are white, male critics, who don't understand my world, he says.

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Berry remembers thinking after her Oscar win, Well, this is going to have to change my life now. Now I'm going to have to get more scripts and be taken more seriously. Reality was more complicated. I was disappointed when I realized it's not going to do any of that, she says. I won that award, and they didn't back up the script truck to my door because I won it. I became more famous, more people knew my name, and I think my industry respected me. But my quest to find roles for people who look like me did not become easier.

After an actor's name, or even a behind-the-camera [person], doesn't open the door for marginalized communities the way we would like it to, she says. Yeah, maybe somebody unlocked it, but it's not open wide for folks to just come in at their will.

In a 2020 study, the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that there was no meaningful increase in Black, Hispanic/ Latino, or Asian characters in popular films between 2007 and 2019. The history of racism in Hollywood is long and unforgivable—excluding Black talent, silencing Black voices, and derailing Black careers, says Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, one of the nation's largest racial justice organizations. He points to the recent tumult within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a prime example: These folks did not want to go see TV or movies from Black talent or Black creatives.

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B OTH BEFORE AND after her Oscar win, Berry has had to be her own advocate: I still have to go fight and convince people to make a way out of no way, to convince people to put a woman of color in a role that wasn't written for a woman of color.

Marked a new watershed moment in her career. She also starred in the film, the kind of risk she's embraced throughout her career, she says, even for

Well, if it ruins my career, at least I'm ending my career on a choice I fully, wholeheartedly believe in, Berry remembers thinking of the 2001 film. Playing it safe doesn't necessarily get you anywhere. You have to take chances. Especially if you're a Black woman, you have no choice. You have to take chances.

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In 2002, when the orchestra signaled that it was time for her to wrap up her acceptance speech, Berry exclaimed, It's been 74 years. I gotta take this time. Now it's been 20 more years. The Academy doubled the number of women and tripled the number of people of color in its membership from 2016 to 2020, though it remains overwhelmingly white and male, as Reign notes. And though she's still waiting for another Black woman to join her in the best actress pantheon, Berry is optimistic about the future. I have seen Black women

Within our industry, she says. Now I turn on television, on Netflix, on network. I see Black and brown faces all over it. Do we have a ways to go? Absolutely. But in 20 years, we've come far.

Toward the end of her Oscar speech, Berry thanked the Academy for choosing me to be the vessel from which this blessing might flow. Imagine an aspiring Black actor watching her, inspired by the possibility that she herself might be next. Something did change. Something did change. Something did change, Berry repeats like a mantra. And I'm going to hold on to that moment—that in that moment, minds and hearts did get changed and people got energized. I believe that.

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