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Halle Berry: Monster's Ball
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File this under resurrected good news: Nefertiti, Halle Berry's collaboration with Monster's Ball director Marc Forster, may be emerging from development hell. The MTV Movies Blog posted a short (like, twenty-second) clip about the project from a recent interview with Berry (watch it here).
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Later in 2001, Berry appeared as Leticia Musgrove, the wife of an executed murderer, in the film Monster's Ball. Her performance was awarded the National Board of Review and the Screen Actors Guild prizes. The role earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress, and she made history by becoming the first African American woman to receive a Best Actress Academy Award.
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From Internet message boards to barbershops, African-Americans are abuzz with debate over Halle, Denzel and Sidney's history-making moments. Is "Monster's Ball" a racist film or a breakthrough? Do blacks wield any real power in Hollywood? Was the Oscar "blackout" more than a whitewash?
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The made-for-cable film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge won Berry an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award in 1999. One of her greatest triumphs has been her heartbreaking performance in Monster's Ball (2001), which made her the first African-American actress to win a Best Actress Academy Award.
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