Are Oscars really inclusive and diverse?

Oscars or Academy awards as they are called, have a great importance in how the films are made in Hollywood, which fortunately or unfortunately, determines most of World Cinema, especially, Indian Cinema. If a film wins Oscar, the director of that movie, the actors and everyone involved are noted by big studios and they get a chance to make another film in a more commercial friendly way. 

It they manage to beat the barrier of 100 Millon Dollars or 150 million dollars at box office, domestically in USA, then studios will give them more power to create even better films. Their commercial viability inspires others around the globe to try too. Just how, ET, made us think about Krrish, Koi Mil Gaya and westerns like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly gave rise to many cow-boy films. These films became successful and when played at a theatre near us, one or the other filmmaker got a new idea to make a successful film here.

So, if the Oscars, really wanted to be inclusive, prominent awards like Best Picture and Best Director, could have gone to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missourie and Greta Gerwig, respectively. 

Both have gone to Shape of Water, deservingly, but when world is trying to spread women activism and working towards empowerment, just to make a difference had they given to these movies, the change in the tide, would have appeared more real than celebratory.