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20th British Academy Games Awards

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20th British Academy Games Awards
Date11 April 2024
LocationQueen Elizabeth Hall
Hosted byPhil Wang
Best GameTBA
Most awardsTBA
Most nominationsBaldur's Gate 3 (10)

The 20th British Academy Video Game Awards are set to be hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 11 April 2024 to honour the best video games of 2023.[1] Held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the ceremony was hosted by comedian Phil Wang for the first time.[2] Nominations were announced on March 7, 2024, with epic fantasy roleplaying game Baldur's Gate 3 earning a leading ten nominations.

Background[]

Eligibility[]

Any game released between 10 December 2022 and 24 November 2023 was eligible for nomination.

Awards changes[]

For the 20th BAFTA Games Awards, a number of changes were announced:[3]

  • Voting opened on 1 June 2023, three months earlier than the previous ceremony.
  • Submissions for the awards are now encouraged within 30 days of launch, with developers and publishers who submit their games within this window being charged half the price of a regular submission. BAFTA advised that this is to give members more time to play each of the submissions and to encourage them to play games that they normally wouldn't, with BAFTA chair Tara Saunders stating that "our goal is to allow more people to play a broader selection of titles ahead of the first round voting and continue to make the awards as representative of the industry as we can."
  • British Academy Games Award for Original Property was renamed to New Intellectual Property.
  • Winners of Best Game and British Game are now selected by the entire BAFTA Games membership, with all 1000+ members being invited to vote. Previously, the winners of these categories were decided by a jury of industry experts. All other categories will continue to be decided by juries, with Saunders explaining that "juries only allow for a small amount of the membership to be involved, so the changes we’ve made are to be more inclusive to all members. Jury discussions are especially great when they are focused around a specific craft or element of a game, like animation, art direction, audio, and so on. We feel it’s important to continue to build specialist juries of highly-skilled talent that know the award category inside out and this will continue to be an important part of the awards process for us. Although award categories like Best Game and British Game still work in the jury format, by going back out to all members, it will have a positive impact on overall membership engagement and bring wider opinions into awards. They are all qualified to give input and we trust our members to vote wisely and with consideration to uphold the quality that the BAFTA games awards is already known for in the industry."

Longlist[]

On 14 December 2023, BAFTA released their official longlist for the first time, featuring over sixty games across their seventeen categories. Larian Studios' epic fantasy RPG Baldur's Gate 3 lead longlist appearances, with fifteen, followed by Remedy Entertainment's survival horror game Alan Wake II, which is longlisted fourteen times. Other top performing games include Insomniac's action-adventure game Spider-Man 2 which received ten appearances, and Avalanche Software's fantasy action-RPG Hogwarts Legacy which featured nine times.[4][5] Regarding the decision to reveal the longlist to the public, rather than informing developers and publishers directly that their game has been longlisted as they have in the past, Saunders stated that "by now doing so, we hope this transparency will recognise and shine a light on a wider selection of games ahead of the jury and round two vote stages".

20th BAFTA Games Awards Longlist[6]

Winners and nominees[]

The nominees were announced on 7 March 2024 via a livestream on the official BAFTA YouTube channel hosted by journalist Lucy James and panelists Isla Hinck, Blessing Adeoye, Jr., Leah Alexandra, and Aoife Wilson.[7][8]

Animation
Artistic Achievement
British Game
  • Cassette Beasts – Bytten Studios/Raw Fury
  • Dead Island 2 – Dambuster Studios/Plaion
  • Disney Illusion Island – Dlala Studios/Disney
  • Football Manager 2024 – Sports Interactive/Sega Europe
  • Viewfinder – Sad Owl Studios/Thunderful Group
  • Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin – Frontier Developments
Debut Game
  • Cocoon – Geometric Interactive/Annapurna Interactive
  • Dave the Diver – Mintrocket
  • Dredge – Black Salt Games/Team17
  • Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical – Summerfall Games/Humble Games
  • Venba – Visai Games
  • Viewfinder – Sad Owl Studios/Thunderful Group
Evolving Game
Family
Game Beyond Entertainment
  • Chants of Sennaar – Rundisc/Focus Entertainment
  • Goodbye Volcano High – KO OP
  • Tchia – Awaceb/Kepler Interactive
  • Terra Nil – Free Lives/Devolver Digital
  • Thirsty Suitors – Outerloop Games/Annapurna Interactive
  • Venba – Visai Games
Multiplayer
New Intellectual Property
  • Chants of Sennaar – Rundisc/Focus Entertainment
  • Dave the Diver – Mintrocket
  • Dredge – Black Salt Games/Team17
  • Hi-Fi Rush – Tango Gameworks/Bethesda Softworks
  • Jusant – Don't Nod
  • Viewfinder – Sad Owl Studios/Thunderful Group
Performer in a Leading Role
Performer in a Supporting Role
  • Andrew Wincott as Raphael in Baldur's Gate 3
  • Debra Wilson as Cere Junda in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
  • Ralph Ineson as Cidolfus Telamon in Final Fantasy XVI
  • Sam Lake as Alex Casey in Alan Wake 2
  • Tony Todd as Venom in Spider-Man 2
  • Tracy Wiles as Jaheira in Baldur's Gate 3

Games with multiple nominations[]

Game Nominations
Baldur's Gate 3 10
Spider-Man 2 9
Alan Wake 2 8
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 6
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Dave the Diver 5
Hi-Fi Rush
Cocoon 4
Dredge
Final Fantasy XVI
Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Viewfinder
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III 2
Chants of Sennaar
Cyberpunk 2077
Diablo IV
Disney Illusion Island
Fortnite
Hogwarts Legacy
Venba

References[]

  1. ↑ "Bafta Games Awards longlist announced". The Independent. 14 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023. {{cite web}}:
  2. ↑ "Bafta Games Awards 2024: Phil Wang to host ceremony". BBC News. 13 March 2024. Retrieved 14 March 2024. {{cite web}}:
  3. ↑ "Why BAFTA is changing the way its games awards work". Games Industry. 1 June 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023. {{cite web}}:
  4. ↑ "Bafta Games Awards 2024: Longlist published for first time". BBC News. 14 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023. {{cite web}}:
  5. ↑ "BAFTA announces the best games of 2023". BAFTA. 14 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023. {{cite web}}:
  6. ↑ "The 60 Best Video Games of 2023". BAFTA. 14 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023. {{cite web}}:
  7. ↑ "Bafta Games Awards 2024: Baldur's Gate 3 and Spider-Man lead nods". BBC News. 7 March 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2024. {{cite web}}:
  8. ↑ "20th BAFTA Games Awards: The Nominations". BAFTA. 7 March 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2024. {{cite web}}:

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