The BAFTA Games Awards 2019 nominations were released this morning at 11am over Twitch and Twitter Live Stream.
The ceremony, hosted by Dara O’Briain, takes place on Thursday 4 April at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s Southbank and will be live streamed on all major social, online and gaming platforms: www.bafta.org/games/howtowatch.
The last year has seen some incredible games on our screens and more importantly, brought to our ears. It’s always exciting to hear new game music across many different genres from the big budget orchestral scores to new and innovative indie game soundtracks. Performers go from strength to strength, bringing us fresh characters, with depth and emotion. Of course there is the sought after Audio Achievement, heralding the hard work of the often hidden audio teams, behind studio doors and in dark and quiet rooms. Best of luck to everybody nominated.
This years audio nominations are as follows:
Audio Achievement
BATTLEFIELD V Development Team – EA Dice/Electronic Arts
DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN Guillaume de Fondaumière, David Cage, John O’Brien – Quantic Dream/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
GOD OF WAR Mike Niederquell, Todd Piperi, Leilani Ramirez – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN Paul Mudra, Phillip Kovats, Dwight Okahara – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 Development Team – Rockstar Games/Rockstar Games
TETRIS EFFECT Hydelic, Noboru Mutoh, Takako Ishida – Monstars Inc. and Resonair/Enhance, Inc.
Music
CELESTE Lena Raine – Matt Makes Games Inc./Matt Makes Games Inc.
FAR CRY 5 Development Team – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft
FLORENCE Development Team – Mountains/Annapurna Interactive
GOD OF WAR Bear McCreary, Keith Leary, Peter Scaturro – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
GRIS Development Team – Nomada Studios/Devolver Digitial
TETRIS EFFECT Hydelic, Noboru Mutoh, Takako Ishida – Monstars Inc. and Resonair/Enhance, Inc.
Performer
CHRISTOPHER JUDGE as Kratos in God of War
DANIELLE BISUTTI as Freya in God of War
JEREMY DAVIES as The Stranger in God of War
MELISSANTHI MAHUT as Kassandra of Sparta in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
ROGER CLARK as Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2
SUNNY SULJIC as Atreus in God of War
That’s 6 incredible nominations for the God of War team, across every audio category. We’re also really pleased to see some smaller titles such as Florence, GRIS and Celeste getting the recognition they deserve and balancing out the table. It shows it really doesn’t matter what the size of your production team is, you can strive to be the best and be creative, whether you are a lone composer, working away in your studio, or a team of sound designers and programmers bouncing off each other at the office.
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For a full list of nominations please visit: http://www.bafta.org/games/awards/bafta-games-awards-nominations-winners-2019
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