19th British Academy Games Awards

Game award ceremony in 2023 19th British Academy Games Awards 30 March 2023 Queen Elizabeth Hall Frankie Ward God of War Ragnarök (15) 18th 20th Vampire Survivors God of War Ragnarök (6) The 19th British Academy Video Game Awards were hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 30 March 2023 to honour the best video games of 2022. Held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the ceremony was hosted by esports presenter Frankie Ward, taking over from Elle Osili-Wood who hosted the previous two ceremonies.https://nordot.app/1003652088059510784 Frankie Ward to host BAFTA Games Awards 2023 BANG Showbiz 1 March 2023 2 March 2023 The ceremony was livestreamed exclusively on BAFTA's Twitch channel, hosted by games journalist Julia Hardy and comedian Inel Tomlinson. Red carpet coverage was presented by Eurogamers Aoife Wilson. Sony Interactive's God of War Ragnarök received the most nominations, with fifteen, becoming the most nominated game in the history of the BAFTA Games Awards.https://www.bafta.org/media-centre/press-releases/2023-bafta-games-awards-nominations BAFTA announces the nominations for the BAFTA Games Awards 2023 BAFTA 2 March 2023 2 March 2023https://www.ign.com/articles/bafta-games-awards-2023-nominations-announced BAFTA Games Awards 2023 Nominations Announced Wood Anthony IGN 2 March 2023 2 March 2023 While God of War Ragnarök won the most awards at the ceremony, with six, the top honour, Best Game, was surprisingly won by Vampire Survivors. Nominees and winners thumb|upright=0.85|Christopher Judge won Performer in a Leading Role for his role as Kratos God of War Ragnarök. thumb|upright=0.85|Shuhei Yoshida was the recipient of the BAFTA Fellowship. The nominees were announced by games journalist Julia Hardy on 2 March 2023 via a livestream held on BAFTA's Twitch channel. An additional panel of live streamers were revealed as the "BAFTA Games Squad", who also streamed the nominations announcement and discussed their thoughts on the nominated games.https://esports-news.co.uk/2023/02/27/2023-bafta-games-awards-uk-streamers/ 2023 BAFTA Games Awards: Frankie Ward to host, Julia Hardy and UK streamers including Tubbo and Leah to announce nominations on Twitch, as BAFTA Games Squad grows Sacco Dom Esports News UK 27 February 2023 2 March 2023https://www.bafta.org/games/awards/2023-nominations 2023 BAFTA Games Awards: The Nominations BAFTA 2 March 2023 2 March 2023 The EE Game of the Year nominees, the only category voted for by the British public, were announced two days earlier on 28 February 2023, and were selected by a jury of ten industry professionals, with voting closing on 28 March, two days prior to the ceremony.https://www.bafta.org/media-centre/press-releases/ee-game-of-the-year-2023-nominees Voting opens for the EE Game of the Year Award ahead of the 2023 BAFTA Games Awards BAFTA 28 February 2023 2 March 2023 #EEDD82 Best Game Vampire Survivors – Poncle Cult of the Lamb – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment Marvel Snap – Second Dinner/Nuverse Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive | valign="top" | #EEDD82 Animation God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II – Infinity Ward/Activision Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – TT Games/Warner Bros Interactive Sifu – Sloclap Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive |- | valign="top" | #EEDD82 Artistic Achievement Tunic – Finji A Plague Tale: Requiem – Asobo/Focus Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment Immortality – Half Mermaid Productions Pentiment – Obsidian/Xbox Game Studios | width="50%" valign="top" | #EEDD82 Audio Achievement God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment A Plague Tale: Requiem – Asobo/Focus Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment Metal: Hellsinger – The Outsiders/Funcom Oslo Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive Tunic – Finji |- | valign="top" | #EEDD82 British Game Rollerdrome – Roll7/Private Division Citizen Sleeper – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller OlliOlli World – Roll7/Private Division Total War: Warhammer III – Creative Assembly/Sega Two Point Campus – Two Point Studios/Sega Vampire Survivors – Poncle | width="50%" valign="top" | #EEDD82 Debut Game Tunic – Finji As Dusk Falls – Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios The Case of the Golden Idol – Color Gray Games/Playstack Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive Trombone Champ – Holy Wow Studios Vampire Survivors – Poncle |- | valign="top" | #EEDD82 Evolving Game Final Fantasy XIV Online – Creative Business Unit III/Square Enix Apex Legends – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts Dreams – Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment The Elder Scrolls Online – ZeniMax Online Studios/Bethesda Softworks Forza Horizon 5 – Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios No Man's Sky – Hello Games | width="50%" valign="top" | #EEDD82 Family Kirby and the Forgotten Land – HAL Laboratory/Nintendo Disney Dreamlight Valley – Gameloft Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – TT Games/Warner Bros Interactive Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope – Ubisoft Nintendo Switch Sports – Nintendo EPD Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge – Tribute Games/Dotemu |- | valign="top" | #EEDD82 Game Beyond Entertainment Endling: Extinction is Forever – Herobeat Studios/HandyGames Citizen Sleeper – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller Gibbon: Beyond the Trees – Broken Rules I Was a Teenage Exocolonist – Northway Games/Finji Not For Broadcast – NotGames/TinyBuild We'll Always Have Paris – Cowleyfornia Studios | width="50%" valign="top" | #EEDD82 Game Design Vampire Survivors – Poncle Cult of the Lamb – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment Tunic – Finji |- | valign="top" | #EEDD82 Multiplayer Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II – Infinity Ward/Activision FIFA 23 – EA Sports Overwatch 2 – Blizzard Entertainment Splatoon 3 – Nintendo Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge – Tribute Games/Dotemu | width="50%" valign="top" | #EEDD82 Music God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment A Plague Tale: Requiem – Asobo/Focus Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course – Studio MDHR Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive Tunic – Finji |- | valign="top" | #EEDD82 Narrative Immortality – Half Mermaid Productions A Plague Tale: Requiem – Asobo/Focus Citizen Sleeper – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment Pentiment – Obsidian/Xbox Game Studios Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive | width="50%" valign="top" | #EEDD82 Original Property Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Citizen Sleeper – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller Cult of the Lamb – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital Sifu – Sloclap Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive Vampire Survivors – Poncle |- | valign="top" | #EEDD82 Performer in a Leading Role Christopher Judge as Kratos in God of War Ragnarök Alain Mesa as Alejandro Vargas in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Charlotte McBurney as Amicia in A Plague Tale: Requiem Manon Gage as Marissa Marcel in Immortality Siobhan Williams as Laura in The Quarry Sunny Suljic as Atreus in God of War Ragnarök#EEDD82 Performer in a Supporting Role Laya Deleon Hayes as Angrboða in God of War Ragnarök 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 Ryan Hurst as Thor in God of War Ragnarök#EEDD82 Technical Achievement Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment Immortality – Half Mermaid Productions The Last of Us Part I – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive#EEDD82 EE Game of the Year God of War Ragnarök'' – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment Immortality – Half Mermaid Productions Marvel Snap – Second Dinner/Nuverse Stray'' – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive BAFTA Fellowship: Shuhei Yoshida Multiple nominations and wins Game Nominations Wins God of War Ragnarök 15 6 Stray 9 0 Elden Ring 8 2 Horizon Forbidden West 6 1 Immortality A Plague Tale: Requiem 5 0 Tunic 5 2 Vampire Survivors Citizen Sleeper 4 0 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II 3 0 Cult of the Lamb Pentiment 2 0 Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Marvel Snap Sifu Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge References Category:British Academy Games Awards ceremonies British Academy Games British Academy Games British Academy Games Category:2022 video game awards