Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I admit it.  I watch the Oscars.  These days, I do it mainly for the dresses.  I'm torn between my choices for films and performances and what has actually been nominated.  But I did have a thrill this year.  Wes Studi was a presenter, for the montage of war movies honoring veterans.  I'd just seen him in "Hostiles", a film that failed to work but who's heart was in the right place.  I'll see anything with him and Adam Beach.  I liked the inclusion of a Native American actor in the program.  Though we seldom see them, they are increasing in number and importance.  Like Latinos and Asians, they are still woefully underrepresented, but I'm hopeful.  When I see the increasing importance of Black filmmakers and actors, and their garnering more nominations, I am encouraged.  What is even perhaps more important, at least to me, is the few roles of signifigance for women and the dearth of cinematographers and directors.  Let's hope there will be more Greta Gerwigs and Rachel Morrisons in our future, and then more stories genuinely from the woman's point of view will appear.  Not the phony woman played by Frances McDormand in "Three Billboards" or the fantasy mute in "Shape", but more Katherine Grahams and Tonyas and Annas.