The Game Awards, GOTY

The Game Awards Reveals 2020 GOTY Nominations & More

Producer and industry personality Geoff Keighley has today hosted a livestream detailing the list of nominations for this year’s The Game Awards.

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The show kicked off by running through the full list of nominations across every category, which you can find below. But let’s start things here by highlighting this year’s Game of the Year contenders first, which as you might have noticed in the image above are as follows:

Game of the Year 2020

  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons
  • Hades
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake
  • Ghost of Tsushima
  • Doom Eternal
  • The Last of Us Part II

Here’s the full list of categories and nominees:


Best Performance

  • Ashley Johnson, The Last of Us Part II
  • Laura Bailey, The Last of Us Part II
  • Daisuke Tsuji, Ghost of Tsushima
  • Logan Cunningham, Hades
  • Nadji Jeter, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Best Multiplayer

  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons
  • Among Us
  • Call of Duty: Warzone
  • Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
  • Valorant

Best Ongoing Game

  • Apex Legends
  • Destiny 2
  • Call of Duty Warzone
  • Fortnite
  • No Man’s Sky

Best Art Direction

  • Final Fantasy VII Remake
  • Ghost of Tsushima
  • Hades
  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps
  • The Last of Us Part II

Best Score/Music

  • DOOM Eternal
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake
  • Hades
  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps
  • The Last of Us Part II

Best Narrative

  • 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake
  • Ghost of Tsushima
  • Hades
  • The Last of Us Part II

Best Independent Game

  • Carrion
  • Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
  • Hades
  • Spelunky 2
  • Spiritfarer

Best Mobile Game

  • Among Us
  • Call of Duty Mobile
  • Genshin Impact
  • Legends of Runeterra
  • Pokémon Café Mix

Best Esports Game

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
  • Fortnite
  • League of Legends
  • Valorant

Best Esports Athlete

  • Ian “Crimsix” Porter
  • Heo “Showmaker” Su
  • Kim “Canyon” Geon-bu
  • Anthony “Shotzzy” Cuevas-Castro
  • Matthieu “ZywOo” Herbaut

Best Game Direction

  • Final Fantasy VII Remake
  • Ghost of Tsushima
  • Hades
  • Half-Life: Alyx
  • The Last of Us Part II

Los Angeles, London, and Tokyo will play host to The Game Awards on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. You can find more details on how to stream it here.


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