The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the list of nominees for the 2023 BAFTA Games Awards, with God of War Ragnarök being the most nominated video game since the 2004 BAFTA Games Awards.
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List of BAFTA Games Awards 2023 Nominees, What Are They?
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the list of nominees for the BAFTA Games Awards 2023. The BAFTA Games Awards 2023 live stream will go live on Twitch on March 31, 2023, at 00:50 GMT.
The 2023 BAFTA Games Awards will present awards in 18 categories that celebrate various aspects of video game development.
Additionally, VGC reports that God of War Ragnarök has 14 nominations, making it the most nominated game in the history of the BAFTA Games Awards. God of War Ragnarök will compete with Elden Ring (8 nominations), Cult of the Lamb (3 nominations), MARVEL SNAP (2 nominations), Stray (9 nominations), Vampire Survivors (5 nominations), along with Horizon Forbidden West (6 nominations).
The list of BAFTA Games Awards 2023 categories and nominees can be found below:
ANIMATION
- CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE II Mark Grigsby, Bruce Ferris, Khoa Le – Infinity Ward/Activision Publishing, Inc.
- GOD OF WAR RAGNARÖK Bruno Velazquez, Erica Pinto, Mehdi Yssef – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST Development Team – Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- LEGO STAR WARS: THE SKYWALKER SAGA Development Team – TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
- SIFU Development Team – Sloclap/Sloclap & Kepler Interactive
- STRAY Jophray Mikolajczyk, Jean-Marie Vouillon, Simon Jacquart – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT
- A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM Development Team – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment
- ELDEN RING Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
- GOD OF WAR RAGNARÖK Raf Grassetti, Dan McKim, Eric Valdes – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- IMMORTALITY Doug Potts, Stephanie Reese, Kerry Hennessy – Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions
- PENTIMENT Hannah Kennedy, Soojin Paek – Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios
- TUNIC Development Team – TUNIC Team/FINJI
AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT
- A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM Development Team – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment
- GOD OF WAR RAGNARÖK Jodie Kupsco, Michael Kent, Sean LaValle – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST Development Team – Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- METAL: HELLSINGER Elvira Björkman, Nicklas Hjertberg – The Outsiders/Funcom Oslo AS
- STRAY Development Team – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
- TUNIC Development Team – TUNIC Team/FINJI
BEST GAME
- CULT OF THE LAMB Development Team – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital
- ELDEN RING Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
- GOD OF WAR RAGNARÖK Eric Williams, Chad Cox, Yumi Yang – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- MARVEL SNAP Development Team – Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse
- STRAY Development Team – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
- VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Development Team – poncle/poncle
BRITISH GAME
- CITIZEN SLEEPER Gareth Damian Martin, Guillaume Singelin, Amos Roddy – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
- OLLIOLLI WORLD Development Team – Roll7/Private Division
- ROLLERDROME Development Team – Roll7/Private Division
- TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III Development Team – Creative Assembly/SEGA
- TWO POINT CAMPUS Development Team – Two Point Studios/SEGA
- VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Development Team – poncle/poncle
DEBUT GAME
- AS DUSK FALLS Caroline Marchal, Charu Desodt – INTERIOR/NIGHT/Xbox Game Studios
- THE CASE OF THE GOLDEN IDOL Andrejs Klavins, Ernests Klavins – Color Gray Games/Playstack
- STRAY Development Team – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
- TROMBONE CHAMP Development Team – Holy Wow Studios/Holy Wow Studios
- TUNIC Development Team – TUNIC Team/FINJI
- VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Development Team – poncle/poncle
EVOLVING GAME
- APEX LEGENDS Development Team – Respawn/Electronic Arts
- DREAMS Development Team – Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE Development Team – Zenimax Online Studios/Bethesda Softworks
- FINAL FANTASY XIV ONLINE Development Team – Creative Business Unit III/Square Enix
- FORZA HORIZON 5 Development Team – Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios
- NO MAN’S SKY Development Team – Hello Games/Hello Games
FAMILY
- DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLEY Development Team – Gameloft/Gameloft
- KIRBY AND THE FORGOTTEN LAND Development Team – HAL Laboratory/Nintendo
- LEGO STAR WARS: THE SKYWALKER SAGA Development Team – TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
- MARIO + RABBIDS SPARKS OF HOPE Development Team – Ubisoft Milan; Ubisoft Paris/Ubisoft
- NINTENDO SWITCH SPORTS Development Team – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
- TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SHREDDER’S REVENGE Development Team – Tribute Games/Dotemu
GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT
- CITIZEN SLEEPER Gareth Damian Martin, Guillaume Singelin, Amos Roddy – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
- ENDLING – EXTINCTION IS FOREVER Development Team – Herobeat Studios/HandyGames
- GIBBON: BEYOND THE TREES Development Team – Broken Rules/Broken Rules
- I WAS A TEENAGE EXOCOLONIST Development Team – Northway Games/FINJI
- NOT FOR BROADCAST Development Team – NotGames/tinyBuild
- WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS Marina Sciberras – Cowleyfornia Studios/Cowleyfornia Studios
GAME DESIGN
- CULT OF THE LAMB Development Team – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital
- ELDEN RING Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
- GOD OF WAR RAGNARÖK Jason McDonald, Andrew Chrysafidis, Luis Sanchez – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST Development Team – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- TUNIC Development Team – TUNIC Team/FINJI
- VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Development Team – poncle/poncle
MULTIPLAYER
- CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE II Development Team – Infinity WardActivision Publishing, Inc.
- EA SPORTS FIFA 23 Development Team – EA Vancouver & EA Romania/EA SPORTS
- ELDEN RING Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
- OVERWATCH 2 Development Team – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment
- SPLATOON 3 Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo
- TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SHREDDER’S REVENGE Development Team – Tribute Games/Dotemu
MUSIC
- A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM Olivier Derivière – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment
- CUPHEAD – THE DELICIOUS LAST COURSE Kristofer Maddigan – Studio MDHR/Studio MDHR
- ELDEN RING Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
- GOD OF WAR RAGNARÖK Bear McCreary, Keith Leary, Peter Scaturro – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- STRAY Development Team – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
- TUNIC Development Team – TUNIC Team/FINJI
NARRATIVE
- A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM Writing Team – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment
- CITIZEN SLEEPER Gareth Damian Martin – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
- GOD OF WAR RAGNARÖK Matt Sophos, Richard Gaubert – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- IMMORTALITY Sam Barlow, Amelia Gray, Allan Scott – Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions
- PENTIMENT Josh Sawyer, Kate Dollarhyde, Zoe Franznick – Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios
- STRAY Writing Team – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
ORIGINAL PROPERTY
- CITIZEN SLEEPER Gareth Damian Martin, Guillaume Singelin, Amos Roddy – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
- CULT OF THE LAMB Development Team – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital
- ELDEN RING Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
- SIFU Development Team – Sloclap/Sloclap & Kepler Interactive
- STRAY Development Team – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
- VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Development Team – poncle/poncle
PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE
- ALAIN MESA as Alejandro Vargas in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
- CHARLOTTE MCBURNEY as Amicia in A Plague Tale: Requiem
- CHRISTOPHER JUDGE as Kratos in God of War Ragnarök
- MANON GAGE as Marissa Marcel in IMMORTALITY
- SIOBHAN WILLIAMS as Laura in The Quarry
- SUNNY SULJIC as Atreus in God of War Ragnarök
PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
- ADAM J. HARRINGTON as Sindri in God of War Ragnarök
- ALISON JAYE as Alva in Horizon Forbidden West
- CHARLOTTA MOHLIN as The One in IMMORTALITY
- DANIELLE BISUTTI as Freya in God of War Ragnarök
- LAYA DELEON HAYES as Angrboda in God of War Ragnarök
- RYAN HURST as Thor in God of War Ragnarök
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
- ELDEN RING Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
- GOD OF WAR RAGNARÖK Josh Hobson, Jon Burke – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST Development Team – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- IMMORTALITY Connor Carson, Lizi Attwood, Dylan Nelkin – Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions
- THE LAST OF US PART I Development Team – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- STRAY Development Team – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
EE GAME OF THE YEAR
- ELDEN RING FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
- GOD OF WAR RAGNARÖK Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment
- IMMORTALITY Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions
- MARVEL SNAP Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse
- STRAY BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive