Another awards season is winding down, and Halle Berry, who famously became the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her role in “Monster’s Ball,” has ...

In the Apple TV+ documentary Number One on the Call Sheet, Berry reflects on what has happened since she won the Oscar in 2002, for her role in Monster's Ball. In that time, no other Black actress ...

Saldaña is not the first actress to claim her award was non-binary. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis referred to her first Oscar statuette as a "they/them" in honor of her transgender child Ruby during ...

In the film, fellow Black actresses Taraji P. Henson and Whoopi Goldberg also weigh in on the lack of Black “Best Actress” Oscar winners.

Photo credit: Steve Granitz Halle Berry made history in 2002 as the first Black woman to win the Oscar for Best Actress. More than 20 years later, Berry still holds that distinction, as no other ...

Demi Moore says she predicted Mikey Madison was going to win the Oscar for Best Actress moments before Madison won at the 2025 Academy Awards on March 2 “I don’t know why I knew, but I did ...

In 2019, Yalitza Aparicio became the first Indigenous Mexican actress to receive a best actress Oscar nomination. In 2004, 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes, an Indigenous Kiwi, was nominated for ...

It’s the third best actress Oscar for McDormand, who also won in 2018 for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" and in 1996 for "Fargo." ...

The actress June Squibb was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for her turn in Alexander Payne’s dramedy “Nebraska.” She next stars in “Eleanor the Great,” directed by ...

Men don't want to hold purses. Men want to also be vibrant." Here are just some of the Best Actress Oscar winners who have been hit with the curse since 1938.