God of War: Ragnarok becomes the most nominated game in BAFTA history

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, better known as BAFTA, have unveiled today their list of nominees for their 18 categories. Of all of them, there are only four that God of War: Ragnarok is not nominated: the game from Santa Monica Studio has become the most nominated in history of these awards, which began to include video games in 2004.

Other of the most nominated video games are Stray (eight nominations), Elder Ring (seven nominations) and A Plague Take: Requiem, Horizon Forbidden West, Immortality, Tunic y Vampire Survivors, with five nominations each. It should be remembered that at the gala of the to the pastthe video game that won as the best project of the year was Returnalwhich also took three other awards.

Under these lines you can see the full list of nominees to the BAFTAs 2023.

BAFTA Awards 2023 Nominees

best animation

• CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE II Mark Grigsby, Bruce Ferris, Khoa Le Infinity Ward/Activision Publishing, Inc.
• GOD OF WAR RAGNARK Bruno Velazquez, Erica Pinto, Mehdi Yssef Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST Development Team Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• LEGO STAR WARS: THE SKYWALKER SAGA Development Team TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
• SIFU Development Team Sloclap/Sloclap & Kepler Interactive
• STRAY Jophray Mikolajczyk, Jean-Marie Vouillon, Simon Jacquart BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive

Artistic Achievement Award

• A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM Development Team Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment
• ELDEN RING Development Team FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
• GOD OF WAR RAGNARK Raf Grassetti, Dan McKim, Eric Valdes Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• IMMORTALITY Doug Potts, Stephanie Reese, Kerry Hennessy Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions
• PENTIMENT Hannah Kennedy, Soojin Paek Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studio
• TUNIC Development Team TUNIC Team/FINJI

Audio Achievement Award

• A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM Development Team Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment
• GOD OF WAR RAGNARK Jodie Kupsco, Michael Kent, Sean LaValle Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST Development Team Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• METAL: HELLSINGER Elvira Bjrkman, Nicklas Hjertberg The Outsiders/Funcom Oslo AS
• STRAY Development Team BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
• TUNIC Development Team TUNIC Team/FINJI

best game

• CULT OF THE LAMB Development Team Massive Monster/Devolver Digital
• ELDEN RING Development Team FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
• GOD OF WAR RAGNARK Eric Williams, Chad Cox, Yumi Yang Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• MARVEL SNAP Development Team Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse
• STRAY Development Team BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
• VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Development Team poncle/poncle

best british game

• CITIZEN SLEEPER Gareth Damian Martin, Guillaume Singelin, Amos Roddy Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
• OLLIOLLI WORLD Development Team Roll7/Private Division
• ROLLERDROME Development Team Roll7/Private Division
• TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III Development Team Creative Assembly/SEGA
• TWO POINT CAMPUS Development Team Two Point Studios/SEGA
• VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Development Team poncle/poncle

best debut game

• AS DUSK FALLS Caroline Marchal, Charu Desodt INTERIOR/NIGHT/Xbox Game Studios
• THE CASE OF THE GOLDEN IDOL Andrejs Klavins, Ernests Klavins Color Gray Games/Playstack
• STRAY Development Team BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
• TROMBONE CHAMP Development Team Holy Wow Studios/ Holy Wow Studios
• TUNIC Development Team TUNIC Team/FINJI
• VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Development Team poncle/poncle

Best game in constant evolution

• APEX LEGENDS Development Team Respawn/Electronic Arts
• DREAMS Development Team Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE Development Team Zenimax Online Studios/Bethesda Softworks
• FINAL FANTASY XIV ONLINE Development Team Creative Business Unit III/Square Enix
• FORZA HORIZON 5 Development Team Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios
• NO MANS SKY Development Team Hello Games/Hello Games

best family game

• DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLEY Development Team Gameloft/ Gameloft
• KIRBY AND THE FORGOTTEN LAND Development Team HAL Laboratory/Nintendo
• LEGO STAR WARS: THE SKYWALKER SAGA Development Team TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
• MARIO + RABBIDS SPARKS OF HOPE Development Team Ubisoft Milan; Ubisoft Paris/Ubisoft
• NINTENDO SWITCH SPORTS Development Team Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
• TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SHREDDERS REVENGE Development Team Tribute Games/Dotemu

Game beyond entertainment

• CITIZEN SLEEPER Gareth Damian Martin, Guillaume Singelin, Amos Roddy Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
• ENDLING EXTINCTION IS FOREVER Development Team Herobeat Studios/HandyGames
• GIBBON: BEYOND THE TREES Development Team Broken Rules/Broken Rules
• I WAS A TEENAGE EXOCOLONIST Development Team Northway Games/FINJI
• NOT FOR BROADCAST Development Team NotGames/tinyBuild
• WELL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS Marina Sciberras Cowleyfornia Studios/Cowleyfornia Studios

best game design

• CULT OF THE LAMB Development Team Massive Monster/Devolver Digital
• ELDEN RING Development Team FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
• GOD OF WAR RAGNARK Jason McDonald, Andrew Chrysafidis, Luis Sanchez Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST Development Team Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• TUNIC Development Team TUNIC Team/FINJI
• VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Development Team poncle/poncle

best multiplayer

• CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE II Development Team -Infinity WardActivision Publishing, Inc.
• EA SPORTS FIFA 23 Development Team -EA Vancouver, EA Romania/EA SPORTS
• ELDEN RING Development Team FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
• OVERWATCH 2 Development Team Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment
• SPLATOON 3 Development Team Nintendo/Nintendo
• TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SHREDDERS REVENGE Development Team Tribute Games/Dotemu

best music

• A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM Olivier Derivire Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment
• CUPHEAD THE DELICIOUS LAST COURSE Kristofer Maddigan Studio MDHR/Studio MDHR
• ELDEN RING Development Team FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
• GOD OF WAR RAGNARK Bear McCreary, Keith Leary, Peter Scaturro Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• STRAY Development Team -BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
• TUNIC Development Team TUNIC Team/FINJI

best narrative

• A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM Writing Team Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment
• CITIZEN SLEEPER Gareth Damian Martin Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
• GOD OF WAR RAGNARK Matt Sophos, Richard Gaubert Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• IMMORTALITY Sam Barlow, Amelia Gray, Allan Scott Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions
• PENTIMENT Josh Sawyer, Kate Dollarhyde, Zoe Franznick Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studio
• STRAY Writing Team BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive

Best original property

• CITIZEN SLEEPER Gareth Damian Martin, Guillaume Singelin, Amos Roddy Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
• CULT OF THE LAMB Development Team Massive Monster/Devolver Digital
• ELDEN RING Development Team FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
• SIFU Development Team Sloclap/Sloclap & Kepler Interactive
• STRAY Development Team BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
• VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Development Team poncle/poncle

Best Leading Performance

• ALAIN MESA as Alejandro Vargas in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
• CHARLOTTE MCBURNEY as Amicia in A Plague Tale: Requiem
• CHRISTOPHER JUDGE como Kratos en God of War Ragnark
• MANON GAGE como Marissa Marcel en Immortality
• SIOBHAN WILLIAMS como Laura en The Quarry
• SUNNY SULJIC as Atreus in God of War Ragnark

Best Supporting Performance

• ADAM J. HARRINGTON as Sindri in God of War Ragnark
• ALISON JAYE como Alva en Horizon Forbidden West
• CHARLOTTA MOHLIN como The One en Immortality
• DANIELLE BISUTTI as Freya in God of War Ragnark
• LAYA DELEON HAYES as Angrboda in God of War Ragnark
• RYAN HURST como Thor en God of War Ragnark

technical achievement award

• ELDEN RING Development Team FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
• GOD OF WAR RAGNARK Josh Hobson, Jon Burke Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST Development Team Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• IMMORTALITY Connor Carson, Lizi Attwood, Dylan Nelkin Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions
• THE LAST OF US PART I Development Team Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• STRAY Development Team BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive

EE Game of the Year (Public Vote)

• ELDEN RING FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
• GOD OF WAR RAGNARK Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• IMMORTALITY Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions
• MARVEL SNAP Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse
• STRAY BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive