Women’s Academy…at Least for a Night
With last night’s Academy Award for Best Director going to Kathryn Bigelow, the Academy has awarded that Oscar to a woman for the first time in its history. There could not be a more perfect way to commemorate the strides women have made in entertainment and society. Bigelow’s win helps celebrate today’s theme: “Equal rights, equal opportunity: Progress for all.”
What I most enjoyed about her victory was not the fact that that a woman won, but that the best film-maker did. Bigelow put it best in her post award comments, “I’d love to just think of myself as a film-maker, and I long for the day when a modifier can be a moot point. But I’m ever grateful if I can inspire some young, intrepid, tenacious male or female film-maker and have them feel that the impossible is possible and never give up on your dream.”
That is what International Women’s Day is about.
About The Author
Adam
Adam Miller, 26, is a high school Theatre and English teacher in Chicago’s north suburbs. After earning his BA from Illinois Wesleyan University, he moved to Chicago, tried his hand at professional theatre, decided the bohemian life wasn’t for him, and took his current teaching job. Outside the classroom, he spends the school year directing plays and working with the school’s sketch comedy and improv troupe. His summers are spent cycling, guitar playing, traveling (most recently to Ireland), and working towards his Masters in Directing from Roosevelt University. You can contact him at adam@equality101.net.
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