'Hollywood' on Netflix sees the in-series film 'Meg' sweep the boards at the 1948 Oscars and make movie history, but the reality was quite different.
," a movie led by black actor Camille Washington , written by black gay man Archie Coleman and directed by half-Asian filmmaker Raymond Ainsley . When all of these people win Academy Awards at the 1948in the season finale, they become the first people of color and out gay people to win in their respective fields.
Of course, Meg is not a real film, and the real 1948 Oscars went very differently. However, the Netflix series does keep a number of the real winners from that night. For example, Jack Castello loses the Best Supporting Actor category to Edmund Gwenn, who played Santa Claus inIn the real 1948 Oscars, another controversial and trailblazing movie won Best Picture.
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