The 2020 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) games awards are less than a month away, and the nominations have now been revealed. That means it’s time to check out which games, studios, and other game industry creatives have scored a spot in one of the awards’ 18 categories.
First up, the headline category – ‘best game’. Some of the best PC games of the past year have made it into the mix, including Remedy’s Control, which is probably unsurprising given the action-adventure game’s enthusiastic reception from critics when it released August last year. Other nominees include Mobius Digital’s beautiful Outer Wilds, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Untitled Goose Game (winner of ‘game of the year‘ at the recent DICE awards), and Nintendo Switch exclusive Luigi’s Mansion 3. Plus, RPG games get a look-in, with ZA/UM’s excellent Disco Elysium on the list.
Control and Sekiro also make it into the ‘technical achievement’ category, alongside Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Metro Exodus, A Plague Tale: Innocence, and Death Stranding – whose Steam PC launch date is set for June, by the way.
There are also plenty of nominations for Dontnod’s Life is Strange 2 across the ‘best narrative’, ‘performer in a leading role’, ‘performer in a supporting role’, and ‘game beyond entertainment’ categories, while Destiny 2, Apex Legends, Fortnite, Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers, No Man’s Sky, and Path of Exile are all in the mix for the ‘evolving game’ award.
Check out the full list of award categories and nominees (via BAFTA) below:
ANIMATION
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Development Team – Infinity Ward/Activision
Control Development Team – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Death Stranding Development Team – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
Luigi’s Mansion 3 Development Team – Next Level Games/Nintendo
Sayonara Wild Hearts Development Team – Simogo/Annapurna Interactive
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Development Team – FromSoftware/Activision
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT
Concrete Development Team – Pixelopus/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
Control Development Team – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Death Stranding Development Team – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
Disco Elysium Development Team – ZA/UM/ZA/UM
Knights and Bikes Rex Crowle, Moo Yu, Kenneth C M Young – Foam Sword/Double Fine Presents
Sayonara Wild Hearts Development Team – Simogo/Annapurna Interactive
AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT
Ape Out Matt Boch – Gabe Cuzzillo, Matt Boch, Bennett Foddy/ Devolver Digital
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Development Team – Infinity Ward/Activision
Control Development Team – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Death Stranding Development Team – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Nick Laviers – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts
Untitled Goose Game Development Team – House House/Panic
BEST GAME
Control Development Team – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Disco Elysium Development Team – ZA/UM/ZA/UM
Luigi’s Mansion 3 Development Team – Next Level Games/Nintendo
Outer Wilds Development Team – Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Development Team – FromSoftware/Activision
Untitled Goose Game Development Team – House House/Panic
BRITISH GAME
Dirt Rally 2.0 Development Team – Codemasters/Codemasters
Heaven’s Vault Joseph Humfrey, Jon Ingold, Laura Dilloway – inkle/inkle
Knights and Bikes Rex Crowle, Moo Yu, Kenneth C M Young – Foam Sword/Double Fine Presents
Observation Development Team – No Code/Devolver Digital
Planet Zoo Development Team – Frontier Developments/Frontier Developments
Total War: Three Kingdoms Development Team – The Creative Assembly/SEGA
DEBUT GAME
Ape Out Gabe Cuzzillo, Matt Boch, Bennett Foddy – Gabe Cuzzillo, Matt Boch, Bennett Foddy/Devolver Digital
Death Stranding Development Team – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
Disco Elysium Development Team – ZA/UM/ZA/UM
Katana Zero Justin Stander – Askiisoft/Devolver Digital
Knights and Bikes Rex Crowle, Moo Yu, Kenneth C M Young – Foam Sword/Double Fine Presents
Manifold Garden Development Team – William Chyr Studio/William Chyr Studio
EVOLVING GAME
Apex Legends Chad Grenier, Drew McCoy – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts
Destiny 2 Development Team – Bungie/Bungie
Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers Development Team – Square Enix/Square Enix
Fortnite Development Team – Epic Games/Epic Games
Np Man’s Sky: Beyond Development Team – Hello Games/Hello Games
Path of Exile Development Team – Grinding Gear Games/Grinding Gear —Games
FAMILY
Concrete Genie Development Team – Pixelopus/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
Knights and Bikes Rex Crowle, Moo Yu, Kenneth C M Young – Foam Sword/Double Fine Presents
Luigi’s Mansion 3 Development Team – Next Level Games/Nintendo
Untitled Goose Game Development Team – House House/Panic
Vacation Simulator Development Team – Owlchemy Labs/ Owlchemy Labs
Wattam Development Team – Funomena/Annapurna Interactive
GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT
Civilization VI: Gathering Storm Development Team – Firaxis/2K
Death Stranding Development Team – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
Kind Words (Lo Fi Chill Beats to Write To) Ziba Scott, Luigi Guatieri, Clark Aboud – Popcannibal/Popcannibal
Life is Strange 2 (Episodes 2-5) Development Team – Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix
Neo Cab Develoment Team – Chance Agency/Fellow Traveller Games
Ring Fit Adventure Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo
GAME DESIGN
Baba is You Arvi Teikari – Hempuli Oy/Hempuli Oy
Control Development Team –Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Disco Elysium Development Team – ZA/UM/ZA/UM
Outer Wilds Development Team – Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive
Sekiro: Shadows Die TwiceDevelopment Team – FromSoftware/Activision
Wattam Development Team – Funomena/Annapurna Interactive
MULTIPLAYER
Apex Legends Brent McLeod, Carlos Pineda – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts
Borderlands 3 Development Team – Gearbox Software/2K
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Development Team – Infinity Ward/Activision
Luigi’s Mansion 3 Development Team – Next Level Games/Nintendo
Tick Tock: A Tale for Two Development Team – Other Tales Interactive/Other Tales Interactive
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 Development Team – Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft
MUSIC
Control Petri Alanko, Martin Stig Andersen – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Death Stranding Development Team – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
Disco Elysium Development Team – ZA/UM/ZA/UM
Outer Wilds Development Team – Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening Development Team – Grezzo/Nintendo
Wattam Asuka Takahashi – Funomena/Annapurna Interactive
NARRATIVE
Control Writing Team – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Disco Elysium Writing Team – ZA/UM/ZA/UM
Life is Strange 2 (Episodes 2-5) Writing Team – Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix
Outer Wilds Writing Team – Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive
The Outer Worlds Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky – Obsidian Entertainment/ Private Division
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Aaron Contreras, Matt Michnovetz, Stig Asmussen – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts
ORIGINAL PROPERTY
Baba is You Arvi Teikari – Hempuli Oy/Hempuli Oy
Control Development Team –Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Death Stranding Development Team – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
Disco Elysium Development Team – ZA/UM/ZA/UM
Outer Wilds Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive
Untitled Goose Game Development Team – House House/Panic
PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE
Laura Bailey as Kait Diaz in Gears 5
Courtney Hope as Jesse Faden in Control
Logan Marshall-Green as David in Telling Lies
Gonzalo Martin as Sean Diaz in Life is Strange 2 (episodes 2-5)
Barry Sloane as Captain Price in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Norman Reedus as Sam in Death Stranding
PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jolene Andersen as Karen Reynolds in Life is Strange 2 (episodes 2-5)
Troy Baker as Higgs in Death Stranding
Sarah Bartholomew as Cassidy (Lucy Rose Jones) in Life is Strange 2 (episodes 2-5)
Ayisha Issa as Fliss in The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
Léa Seydoux as Fragile in Death Stranding
Martti Suosalo as Ahti the Janitor in Control
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
A Plague Tale: Innocence Development Team – Asobo Studio/ Focus Home Interactive
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Development Team – Infinity Ward/Activision
Control Development Team – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
Death Stranding Development Team – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
Metro Exodus Development Team – 4A Games/Deep Silver
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Development Team – FromSoftware/Activision
EE MOBILE GAME OF THE YEAR (voted for by the public)
Assemble with care Ustwo/Ustwo
Call of Duty: Mobile – Timi Studios/Activision
Dead Man’s Phone – Electric Noir Studios
Pokemon Go – The Pokémon Company, Niantic/Nintendo
Tangle Tower – SFB Games/SFB Games
What the Golf? – Triband/Triband
The BAFTA games awards ceremony takes place on April 2. In the meantime, take a look at our list of the best upcoming PC games to see what’s in store in the coming year, and beyond.