BAFTA Games Awards 2019 Winners

BAFTA has announced the winners of the British Academy Games Awards, which celebrated the very best in games of the past year. The ceremony was hosted by Dara O’Briain at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.

God of War, the mythology-based action-adventure game, won Audio Achievement, Best Game, Music, Narrative, and Performer for Jeremy Davies for his role as The Stranger.

Return of the Obra Dinn, the puzzle game developed by Lucas Pope, won Artistic Achievement and Game Design.

Nintendo Labo, the creative cardboard-based game that brings toys to life with the Nintendo Switch, won Family and Game Innovation.

Fortnite, the hugely popular online multiplayer game, won Evolving Game.

Another six games won BAFTAs on the night. The turn-based strategy gameInto the Breach won Original Property. Florence, the interactive love story, won Mobile Game. Yoku’s Island Express, the platforming pinball adventure game, won the BAFTA for Debut Game. A Way Out, the co–op adventure game, wonMultiplayer. The open-world racing game Forza Horizon 4 won British Game. My Child Lebensborn, the story-driven nurture game about the child of an enemy solider, won the BAFTA for Game Beyond Entertainment.

Old School Runescape collected the EE Mobile Game of the Year, the only award voted for by the public.

Full list of nominations below with winners in bold:

Artistic Achievement

• Detroit: Become Human
• Gris
• God of War
• Spider-Man
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Return of the Obra Dinn

Audio Achievement

• Battlefield V
• Detroit: Become Human
• God of War
• Spider-Man
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Tetris Effect

Best Game

• Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
• Astro Bot: Rescue Mission
• Celeste
• God of War
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Return of the Obra Dinn

British Game

• 11-11: Memories Retold
• Forza Horizon 4
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• The Room: Old Sins
• Overcooked 2
• Two Point Hospital

Debut Game

• Beat Saber
• Cultist Simulator
• Donut County
• Florence
• Gris
• Yoku’s Island Express

Evolving Game

• Destiny 2
• Elite Dangerous
• Fortnite
• Overwatch
• Sea of Thieves
• Rainbow Six Siege

Family

• Lego The Incredibles
• Nintendo Labo
• Overcooked 2
• Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu / Eevee
• Super Mario Party
• Yoku’s Island Express

Game Beyond Entertainment

• 11: Memories Retold
• Celeste
• Florence
• Life is Strange 2
• My Child Lebensborn
• Nintendo Labo

Game Design

• Astro Bot: Rescue Mission
• Celeste
• God of War
• Into the Breach
• Minit
• Return of the Obra Dinn

Game Innovation

• Astro Bot: Rescue Mission
• Celeste
• Cultist Simulator
• Moss
• Nintendo Labo
• Return of the Obra Dinn

Mobile Game

• Alto’s Odyssey
• Brawl Stars
• Donut County
• Florence
• Reigns: Game of Thrones
• The Room: Old Sins

Multiplayer

• A Way Out
• Battlefield V
• Overcooked 2
• Sea of Thieves
• Super Mario Party
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Music

• Celeste
• Far Cry 5
• Florence
• God of War
• Gris
• Tetris Effect

Narrative

• Florence
• Frostpunk
• God of War
• Spider-Man
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Return of the Obra Dinn

Original Property

• Dead Cells
• Florence
• Into the Breach
• Moss
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• Subnautica

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 in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
• Roger Clark as Arthur Morgan in Read Dead Redemption 2
• Sunny Suljic as Atreus in God of War

Mobile Game Of The Year (Public Award)

• Brawl Stars
• Clash Royale
• Fortnite
• Old School Runescape
• Pokemon Go
• Roblox

Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2019 Winners

The full list of BPG TV and Radio Awards winners is:

Best Single Drama/Mini-series
A Very English Scandal
A Blueprint Pictures production for the BBC and Amazon Studios

Best Drama Series
Killing Eve
A Sid Gentle Films Ltd production for BBC America, internationally distributed by Endeavor Content      

Best Single Documentary
Grenfell
A Minnow Films production for BBC One

Best Documentary Series
Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation
An On the Corner production, in association with Rogan Productions, for BBC One

Best Entertainment
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
An Owl Power TV production for BBC Two

Best Online First/ Streaming
Killing Eve
A Sid Gentle Films Ltd production for BBC America, internationally distributed by Endeavor Content and first streamed in UK on BBC Three as a box set on BBC iPlayer

Best Comedy 
Derry Girls
A Hat Trick Productions production for Channel 4

Best of Multichannel 
Patrick Melrose
A Two Cities production in association with Sunnymarch and Little Island for Sky Atlantic and Showtime

Radio Broadcaster of the Year
Lauren Laverne
BBC Radio 6 Music, Late Night Woman’s Hour and Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4

Radio Programme of the Year
Tara and George
A Falling Tree Productions production for BBC Radio 4

Podcast of the Year
Hip Hop Saved My Life – Romesh Ranganathan
Ranga Bee Productions

Best Actor
Hugh Grant for A Very English Scandal (BBC One)

Best Actress
Jodie Comer for Killing Eve (BBC America)

Best Writer
Russell T Davies for A Very English Scandal (BBC One)

Innovation Award

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, for a ground-breaking form of storytelling.
A House of Tomorrow production for Netflix

Breakthrough Award
Alex Scott
Sports broadcaster for BBC and Sky

BPG Chairman’s Prize
Big Brother
EndemolShine Group for Channel 4 and Channel 5

Harvey Lee Award
Nicholas Parsons CBE
Actor, presenter & game show host, in particular, recognition of more than 50 years of presenting Radio 4’s Just A Minute.

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