Berry in 2002 won the best actress Oscar for Monster’s Ball becoming the first black woman to do so. Fifteen years on, she remains the only woman of colour to get the honour. Berry said she reached that troubling conclusion in 2016 when all 20 of the Oscar acting nominees were white, sparking the #OscarsSoWhite backlash. “F8 (the 8th film) is out digitally today,” she wrote on her Instagram account on Tuesday above a montage of photos from the film. It’s not the first time Rodriguez has spoken out.

Source: Hindustan Times June 28, 2017 23:48 UTC