Halle Berry "heartbroken" by lack of Oscars diversity

Halle Berry, the only black actress to win an Oscar for Best Actress in a Lead Role, has said she finds it "heartbreaking" that another actress hasn't been honoured with the trophy since her win 14 years ago.

Berry won the Oscar in 2002 for her role in Monster's Ball and she has revealed her disappointment that no actors or actresses of colour have been nominated at the Academy Awards for two years in a row.

Russell Crowe presented Halle Berry with the Best Actress Oscar at the 2002 ceremony

"Honestly, that win almost 15 years ago was iconic. It was important to me, but I had the knowing in the moment that it was bigger than me," Berry said in an address at the 2016 Makers Conference in California. "I believed in that moment, that when I said, '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."

"To sit here almost 15 years later, and knowing that another woman of colour has not walke d through that door, is heartbreaking. 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," she continued.

Berry also called for filmmakers and actors to be more "truthful" in their work, "And so I desperately felt like it was... And as filmmakers and as actors, we have a responsibility to tell the truth. And the films, I think, that are coming out of Hollywood aren't truthful.

"And the reason they're not truthful, these days, is that they're not really depicting the importance and the involvement and the participation of people of colour in our American culture."