Squid Game Already Changed TV. Now It’s Transforming Hollywood Awards

For a few days, as fall turned to winter near 2021’s end, Los Angeles’s biggest celebrity was a person virtually no one could’ve identified a year earlier. He had no acting credits, emerged as a filmmaker quite locally in his home country of Korea, and went several years without directing a movie. But Hwang Dong-hyuk, landing in Hollywood for a taste of awards campaigning and industry meet-and-greets, found himself an improbable center of attention. Here was the creator of Squid Game, the biggest screen phenomenon of the year, finally making the local rounds. He’d get stopped in restaurants and on… Read Full Article