Video: 'Halle Berry Wins Best Actress: 74th Oscars (2002)'

(Sunday, March 24, 2002, evening PST) — Halle Berry became the first African-American performer to win a Best Actress Oscar tonight at the 74th Academy Awards, for her work in Monster’s Ball.

Video: 'The Opening of the Academy Awards: 2002 Oscars' (36 videos)

Denzel Washington became the second black actor, after Sidney Poitier, to win in the best actor category for Training Day.

A Beautiful Mind, the biopic about schizophrenic Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash, won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Ron Howard.