Bafta Games Awards 2021 nominations: The Last of Us Part II leads with record-breaking 13 nods

Louis Chilton

2 March 2021 at 7:27 am·6-min read

The Last of Us Part II (Sony Interactive Entertainment)

The nominations for Bafta’s 2021 British Academy Games Awards have been announced.

Naughty Dog’s acclaimed action-horror sequel The Last of Us Part II leads the pack with 13 nominations, the most ever awarded to a single game. It beats last year’s joint record holders Death Stranding and Control, both of which received 11 nods.

Japan-set samurai game Ghost of Tsushima is the next most nominated game, with 10 nominations, while indie roguelike Hades, available on the Nintendo Switch, garnered eight.

Among the other games to receive multiple nominations are Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Dreams, Fall Guys, and Cyberpunk 2077.

Voting is currently open for the EE Game of the Year Award, which is the ceremony’s only award to be voted for by the public. You can vote now by going here.

Last year’s Bafta Games ceremony saw sci-fi action-adventure game Outer Wilds win best game, in a digitally streamed event hosted by Dara Ó Briain.

This year’s event, the 17th Bafta Games awards overall, will take place on Thursday 25 March in a 90-minute online live stream hosted by presenter and journalist Elle Osili-Wood.

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The event can be viewed on Bafta’s Facebook, Twitch, Twitter and YouTube pages, as well as Steam.

Here is the full list of nominees, with their development teams and publishers:

Animation

Doom Eternal (id Software/ Bethesda Softworks)

Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios)

SpiritFarer (Thunder Lotus/Kowloon Nights)

The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Artistic Achievement

Cyberpunk 2077 (CD PROJEKT RED/CD PROJEKT x BANDAI NAMCO UK)

Dreams (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 (Valve)

The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Audio Achievement

Astro’s Playroom (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 (Valve)

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Best Game

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Ghost of Tsushima (Brian Fleming, Chris Zimmerman - Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Hades (Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games)

Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

British Game

Dreams (Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

F1 2020 (Codemasters)

Fall Guys (Mediatonic/Devolver Digital)

Röki (Polygon Treehouse/United Label)

Sackboy: A Big Adventure (Ned Waterhouse, Jess Gaskell, Pete Smith - Sumo Digital Sheffield/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

The Last Campfire (Hello Games)

Debut Game

Airborne Kingdom (The Wandering Band)

Call of the Sea (Tatiana Delgado, Manuel Fernandez - Out of the Blue/Raw Fury)

Carrion (Phobia Game Studio/Devolver Digital)

Factorio (Wube Software)

Röki (Polygon Treehouse/United Label)

The Falconeer (Tomas Sala/Wired Productions)

Evolving Game

Destiny 2: Beyond Light (Bungie)

Dreams (Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Fall Guys (Mediatonic/Devolver Digital)

Fortnite (Epic Games)

No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

Sea of Thieves (Rare Ltd/Xbox Game Studios)

Family

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Astro’s Playroom (SIE Japan Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Dreams (Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Fall Guys (Mediatonic/Devolver Digital)

Minecraft Dungeons (Mojang Studios/Double Eleven Limited)

Sackboy: A Big Adventure (Joel Smith,Cesar Bittar, Pete Smith - Sumo Digital Sheffield/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Game Beyond Entertainment

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Before I Forget (3-Fold Games)

Dreams (Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

SpiritFarer (Thunder Lotus/Kowloon Nights)

Tell Me Why (DONTNOD Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)

The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Game Design

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Astro’s Playroom (SIE Japan Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Hades (Supergiant Games)

Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)

The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Multiplayer

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Deep Rock Galactic (Ghost Ship Games/Coffee Stain Publishing)

Fall Guys (Mediatonic/Devolver Digital)

Ghost of Tsushima (Darren Bridges, Matt Goldhaber - Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Sackboy: A Big Adventure (Jack Houghton, Tom Sampson, Jason Stewart - Sumo Digital Sheffield/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Valorant (Riot Games)

Music

Ghost of Tsushima (Ilan Eshkeri, Shigeru Umebayashi, Peter Scaturro - Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Hades (Darren Korb - Supergiant Games)

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (John Paesano, Scott Hanau, Alex Hackford - Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Gareth Coker - Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios)

Sackboy: A Big Adventure (Jay Waters, Joe Thwaites, Joanna Skorupa - Sumo Digital Sheffield/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

The Last of Us Part II (Gustavo Santaolalla, Mac Quayle, Scott Hanau - Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Narrative

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Writing Team - Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Cyberpunk 2077 (Writing Team - CD PROJEKT RED/CD PROJEKT x BANDAI NAMCO UK)

Ghost of Tsushima (Nate Fox, Ian Ryan - Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Hades (Greg Kasavin- Supergiant Games)

Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition (Writing Team - Cardboard Computer/Annapurna Interactive)

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Writing Team - Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Original Property

Carrion (Phobia Game Studio/Devolver Digital)

Fall Guys (Mediatonic/Devolver Digital)

Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Hades (Supergiant Games)

Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition (Cardboard Computer/Annapurna Interactive)

SpiritFarer (Thunder Lotus/Kowloon Nights)

Performer in a Leading Role

Ashley Johnson as Ellie in The Last of Us Part II

Cherami Leigh as Female V in Cyberpunk 2077

Cody Christian as Cloud Strife in Final Fantasy VII Remake

Daisuke Tsuji as Jin Sakai in Ghost of Tsushima

Laura Bailey as Abby in The Last of Us Part II

Nadji Jeter as Miles Morales in Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Performer in a Supporting Role

Carla Tassara as Judy Alvarez in CYBERPUNK 2077

Jeffrey Pierce as Tommy in The Last of Us Part II

Logan Cunningham as Hades, Achilles, Poseidon, Asterius, Charon and the Storyteller in Hades

Patrick Gallagher as Khotun Khan in Ghost of Tsushima

Shannon Woodward as Dina inThe Last of Us Part II

Troy Baker as Joel inThe Last of Us Part II

Technical Achievement

Demon’s Souls (SIE Japan Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Doom Eternal (id Software/Bethesda Softworks)

Dreams (Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Flight Simulator (Sebastian Wloch, Duncan Lawler, Pavel Kuksa - Asobo Studio/Xbox Game Studios)

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

EE Game of the Year (voted for by the public)

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)

The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe)

Valorant (Riot Games)

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