On the latest episode of The Screen Podcast, the team picks out the talking points from the Bafta longlists and last Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony.

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Screen’s contributing editor Wendy Mitchell, editor-in-chief Matt Mueller, deputy editor Louise Tutt, and awards and box office editor Charles Gant go in-depth on why the Bafta longlists are really shortlists, what it means that smaller arthouse titles were mostly shut out of the major categories, and what impact the longlists might have on Oscar voting.

Gant suggests opening up the outstanding British category to all voters last year has changed the kinds of films nominated, with Pillion the only title picked for the section and for the British debut list: “I do worry that this has now become a more mainstream category because of that change in the voting rules.”

Mueller adds: “We aren’t privy to the decision-making processes of Bafta about why they decided to open up British film to the entire membership as opposed to making it opt-in. But I think one argument you could make is that they want to go with the most appealing, commercially successful British films in the market. [Bafta has] the debut category to celebrate films like My Father’s Shadow and Wasteman.”

The team also looks at the Golden Globes results and how much relevance they have for the rest of the awards season. Plus, they explore date shifts for the European Film Awards and the Bafta nominations, the latter of which will come after the Oscar nominations for the first time in 25 years.

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