The Last of Us II with historic 13 nominations for 2021 BAFTA Awards
13 nominations for the 2021 BAFTA Awards.
The Last of Us II has become the first video game to recieve 13 nominations at the British Academy Games Award, breaking the record set by Control and Death Stranding after it recieved 11 nominations last year.
The game produced by Naugty Dog dominated the headlines at the 2020 Game awards as it won several awards inluding the game of the year award as well as best direction, narrative, action/adventure game, innovation in accessibility award, audio design award and performance for Laura Bailey who acted as Abby.
The game continues to enhance its profile and has now recieved 13 nominations for the upcoming 2021 BAFTA awards.
The Last of Us II has been nominated for the year, game of the year, artistic achievement award, audio achievement and many others.
Behind The Last of Us II is Ghost of Tsushima with ten nominations while Hades has recieved six nominations and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales’s with seven for the awards.
The ceremony for the 2021 BAFTA awards will take place on Thursday 25 March and will be streamed exclusively online.
2021 BAFTA Awards nominations
Below are some of the nominations for the 2021 BAFTA Awards.
2021 BAFTA AWARDS: EE GAME OF THE YEAR
ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
CALL OF DUTY: WARZONE Raven Software, Infinity Ward/Activision
GHOST OF TSUSHIMA Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
HADES Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
THE LAST OF US PART II Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
VALORANT Riot Games/Riot Games
ANIMATION
DOOM ETERNAL Development Team – id Software/ Bethesda Softworks
FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Development Team -Square Enix/Square Enix
THE LAST OF US PART II Development Team – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES Development Team -Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
ORI AND THE WILL OF THE WISPS Development Team – Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios
SPIRITFARER Development Team -Thunder Lotus/Kowloon Nights
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT
CYBERPUNK 2077 Development Team – CD PROJEKT RED/CD PROJEKT x BANDAI NAMCO UK
DREAMS Development Team – Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
GHOST OF TSUSHIMA Jason Connell, Joanna Wang, Ian Jun Wei Chiew – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
HADES Jen Zee – Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
HALF-LIFE: ALYX Development Team – Valve/Valve
THE LAST OF US PART II Development Team – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT
ASTRO’S PLAYROOM Development Team – SIE Japan Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
GHOST OF TSUSHIMA Rev. Dr. Bradley D. Meyer – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
HADES Darren Korb – Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
HALF-LIFE: ALYX Development Team – Valve/Valve
THE LAST OF US PART II Development Team – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES Development Team – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
BEST GAME
ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS Development Team – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
GHOST OF TSUSHIMA Brian Fleming, Chris Zimmerman – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
HADES Development Team – Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
HALF-LIFE: ALYX Development Team –Valve/Valve
THE LAST OF US PART II Development Team – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES – Development Team – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
BRITISH GAME
DREAMS Development Team – Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
F1 2020 Development Team – Codemasters/Codemasters
FALL GUYS Development Team – Mediatonic/Devolver Digital
THE LAST CAMPFIRE Development Team – Hello Games/Hello Games
RÖKI Development Team – Polygon Treehouse/United Label
SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE Ned Waterhouse, Jess Gaskell, Pete Smith – Sumo Digital Sheffield/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
DEBUT GAME
AIRBORNE KINGDOM Development Team – The Wandering Band/The Wandering Band
CALL OF THE SEA Tatiana Delgado, Manuel Fernandez – Out of the Blue/Raw Fury
CARRION Development Team -Phobia Game Studio/Devolver Digital
FACTORIO Development Team -Wube Software/Wube Software
THE FALCONEER Development Team – Tomas Sala/ Wired Productions
RÖKI Development Team – Polygon Treehouse/United Label
EVOLVING GAME
DESTINY 2: BEYOND LIGHT Development Team – Bungie/Bungie
DREAMS Development Team – Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
FALL GUYS Development Team – Mediatonic/Devolver Digital
FORTNITE Development Team – Epic Games/Epic Games
NO MAN’S SKY Development Team – Hello Games/Hello Games
SEA OF THIEVES Development Team – Rare Ltd/Xbox Game Studios
For the full 2021 BAFTA Awards nomination list, please click on the link.
