“It was—of course—a ultimate disappointment,” she told Oprah Winfrey in March 2024.  “And disappointment is human."

"There are going to beryllium these moments of disappointment that you'll experience, but however bash you grip yourself successful the midst of them?" the Waiting to Exhale star added. "We're going to smile, we're going to beryllium gracious, we're going to beryllium kind, we're going to enactment anyway."

Despite her loss, the Academy would spell connected to contiguous Angela—who was besides nominated for 1994’s What’s Love Got To Do With It—with an honorary Academy Award astatine the 2024 ceremony, paying homage to her 4 decades successful the industry.

In her speech, the 66-year-old recognized the enactment of her Black peers, specified arsenic stars Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Lupita Nyong’o and Regina King, portion noting however Halle Berry has been the lone Black pistillate to beryllium awarded with Best Actress.

“To my chap Black actresses, capable your hearts with courageousness and strength, due to the fact that careless of what you whitethorn deliberation oregon spot oregon consciousness your contributions bash matter,” Angela said onstage. “Take comfortableness knowing that your performances person fixed hope, offered a antithetic position and, for others, conscionable axenic joyousness successful a clip of need. Never let fear, vexation oregon disappointment to get successful the mode of the blessings that are divinely and deservedly yours.”

She noted, “This grant isn't conscionable for oregon astir me. What I anticipation this infinitesimal means is that we are taking the indispensable steps toward a aboriginal successful which it is the norm, not the exception, to spot and clasp 1 another's afloat humanity, stories, and perspectives. This indispensable beryllium our goal.”