In recent years, the hashtag #Oscarssowhite has epitomised the embarrassing lack of diversity in Academy Award winners and nominees.

As 2015 and 2016 saw not a single actor of colour nominated for an acting accolade, an outcry over the doleful whitewashing of the film industry’s premier awards has come into the spotlight.

And as the first and only female actor of colour to have won the Best Actress Academy Award, Halle Berry has said that her gong for her in performance in Monster’s Ball now “means nothing” because fifteen years on, she is the only non-white recipient to have won the prize.

Halle Berry explains why her Oscars win means absolutely nothing to her