Halle Berry delivers moving speech after 2022 Critics Choice Awards win

Halle Berry made a moving speech dedicated to women at the 2022 Critics Choice Awards.

The actress, who made her directorial debut this year with sports drama Bruised, won the SeeHer Award which recognises women in advertising and media who accurately portray females.

In her speech the 55-year-old said: "[Storytelling] can raise our consciousness and help us think outside of ourselves and our individual circumstances."

"I realized that we truly need to see each other's reality — no matter how uncomfortable it makes us — so that we can stop judging and stop pointing fingers, but rather find compassion and empathy for the others.

"I've been in the business for 30 years, and I used to think that if I could play the part of a white man, then I was winning. But you know what, wanna know why that didn't work? Because, if you didn't know, I'm not a white man," said Berry with a laugh. 

"So, for those roles to work, they would have to be substantially changed. It would have to be written with the reality of my journey, in all of its beauty and all of its pain."

Continued Berry, "This is why I am so grateful to be standing and living in this moment where women are standing up and we are telling our own stories."