Lowo owayengumlingisi wokuqala wase-Afrika-waseMelika ukuphumelela u-Oscar sele enenkwenkwezi yakhe kwiHollywood Walk of Fame: Halle Berry, ngaba uyithetha ngayo? ? yinkwenkwezi inombolo 2.333. UBerry, 40, wayehamba nesoka lakhe, imodeli yaseCanada uGabriel Aubry, kunye nomhlobo wakhe omkhulu, umlingisi uSamuel L. Jackson: «Ndivuya kakhulu. Ngokukhawuleza ukuba ndibone abantu abaninzi kunye nabahlobo bam apha ndiye ndaqala ukukhala«, Wavuma umdlali weqonga, owathi ngo2002 waphila incopho yomsebenzi wakhe ngokuphumelela iMbasa yeAkhademi ngomsebenzi ogqwesileyo okhokelayo ngenxa yomsebenzi wakhe kwi 'Monster's Ball'.
Berry? undwendwele iSpain kwiveki ephelileyo? Ukuveza umboniso bhanyabhanya wakhe wamva nje, 'Ukulukuhla umntu ongamaziyo', apho abelana ngebhili kunye noBruce Willis. Umdlali weqonga? wenza amaphepha aphambili kumaphepha-ndaba kwihlabathi jikelele kwiintsuku ezimbalwa ezidlulileyo, emva kokuvuma ukuba wazama ukuzibulala emva kokwehluleka umtshato wakhe wokuqala nomdlali webaseball uDavid Justice, kodwa ukucinga ngomama wakhe "ukufumana umzimba wakhe" kwasusa umbono wokuba intloko.