Halle Berry has broken her silence on the lack of diversity amongst Oscar nominees this year, which has led some to boycott the event altogether.
Berry is the only African American woman to win a Best Actress Oscar, and she said at the 2016 Makers Conference on Tuesday that she’s “heartbroken” over the lack of diversity in recent years.
She explained when she won in 2001, “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.”
However, that hasn’t been the case in the 15 years that have followed.
"Knowing that another woman of color has not walked through that door, is heartbreaking," she went on to say, People reports. "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."
Since her win, three African American women have been nominated for Best Actress - Gabourey Sidibe in 2009, Viola Davis in 2011 and the youngest Oscar nominee in history, Quvenzhané Wallis, 9, in 2012.
Berry continued to say the real problems lie within the greater picture, saying Hollywood films these days aren’t “truthful.”
They’re “not really depicting the importance and the involvement and the participation of people of color in our American culture,” she said.