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The Game Awards 2020 has begun and the celebration of video games in this year unlike any other is a bright spot for gamers and the industry.

Thursday night, the best and most innovative games of 2020 will be on display as media and fans vote for the best video games of the year. Will Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons take Game of the Year honors from AAA titles like Ghosts of Tsushima and The Last of Us II?

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As the show continues we'll continuously update the winners for each category in The Game Awards. The lists below are the nominees for each category with the winner in bold.

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Game of the Year

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)
• DOOM Eternal (id Software/Bethesda)
• Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE)
• Hades (Supergiant Games)
• The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/SIE) - WINNER

Best Game Direction

• Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE)
• Hades (Supergiant Games)
• Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
• The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/SIE) - WINNER

Best Narrative

• 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (George Kamitani)
• Final Fantasy VII Remake (Kazushige Nojima, Motomu Toriyama, Hiroki Iwaki, Sachie Hirano)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Ian Ryan, Liz Albl, Patrick Downs, Jordan Lemos)
• Hades (Greg Kasavin)
• The Last of Us Part II (Neil Druckmann, Halley Gross) - WINNER

Best Art Direction

• Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE) - WINNER
• Hades (Supergiant Games)
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios)
• The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/SIE)

Best Score and Music

• DOOM Eternal (Mick Gordon)
• Final Fantasy VII Remake (Nobuo Uematsu, Masahi Hamauzu, Mitsuto Suzuki) - WINNER
• Hades (Darren Korb)
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Gareth Coker)
• The Last of Us Part II (Gustavo Santaolala, Mac Quale)

Best Audio Design

• DOOM Eternal (id Software/Bethesda)
• Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE)
• Resident Evil 3 (Capcom)
• The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/SIE) - WINNER

Best Performance

• Ashley Johnson as Ellie, The Last of Us Part II
• Laura Bailey as Abby, The Last of Us Part II - WINNER
• Daisuke Tsuji as Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
• Logan Cunningham as Hades, Hades
• Nadji Jeter as Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Games for Impact

• If Found... (DREAMFEEL/Annapurna Interactive)
• Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition (Cardboard Computer/Annapurna Interactive)
• Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus Games)
• Tell Me Why (Dontnod Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios) - WINNER
• Through the Darkest of Times (Paintbucket Games)

Best Ongoing

• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
• Destiny 2 (Bungie)
• Call of Duty: Warzone (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• Fortnite (Epic Games)
• No Man's Sky (Hello Games) - WINNER

Best Indie

• Carrion (Phobia Game Studio)
• Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Mediatonic/Devolver)
• Hades (Supergiant Games) - WINNER
• Spelunky 2 (Mossmouth)
• Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus Games)

Best Mobile

• Among Us (InnerSloth) - WINNER
• Call of Duty: Mobile (TiMi Studios/Activision)
• Genshin Impact (miHoYo)
• Legends of Runeterra (Riot Games)
• Pokémon Café Mix (Genius Sonority)

Best Community Support

• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
• Destiny 2 (Bungie)
• Fall Guys (Mediatonic/Devolver) - WINNER
• Fortnite (Epic Games)
• No Man's Sky (Hello Games)
• Valorant (Riot Games)

Innovation in Accessibility

• Assassin's Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• Grounded (Obsidian/Xbox Game Studios)
• HyperDot (Tribe Games)
• The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/SIE) - WINNER
• Watch Dogs: Legion (Ubisoft Toronto/Ubisoft)

Best VR/AR

• Dreams (Media Molecule/SIE)
• Half-Life: Alyx (Valve) - WINNER
• MARVEL's Iron Man VR (Camoflaj/SIE)
• STAR WARS: Squadrons (Motive Studios/EA)
• The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (Skydance Interactive)

Best Action

• DOOM Eternal (id Software/Bethesda)
• Hades (Supergiant Games) - WINNER
• Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
• Nioh 2 (Team Ninja)
• Streets of Rage 4 (DotEmu)

Best Action/Adventure

• Assassin's Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE)
• Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games/SIE)
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios)
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Respawn/EA)
• The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/SIE) - WINNER

Best Role Playing

• Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix) - WINNER
• Genshin Impact (miHoYo)
• Persona 5 Royal (Atlus, P Studios)
• Wasteland 3 (inXile Entertainment/Koch)
• Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio/Sega)

Best Fighting

• Granblue Fantasy: Versus (Arc System Works/Cygames)
• Mortal Kombat 11/Ultimate (NetherRealm Studios/WB Games) - WINNER
• Street Fighter V: Champion Edition (Dimps/Capcom)
• One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows (Spike Chunsoft/Bandai-Namco)
• UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe: Late[cl-r] (French Bread/Arc System Works)

Best Family

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo) - WINNER
• Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (Toys for Bob/Activision)
• Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Mediatonic/Devolver)
• Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (Velan Studios/Nintendo)
• Minecraft Dungeons (Mojang/Double Eleven/Xbox Game Studios)
• Paper Mario: The Origami King (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)

Best Sim/Strategy

• Crusader Kings III (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox)
• Desperados III (Mimimi Games/THQN)
• Gears Tactics (Splash Damage/The Coalition/Xbox Game Studios)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo/Xbox Game Studios) - WINNER
• XCOM: Chimera Squad (Firaxis/2K)

Best Sports/Racing

• Dirt 5 (Codemasters Cheshire/Codemasters)
• F1 2020 (Codemasters Birmingham /Codemasters)
• FIFA 21 (EA Vancouver/EA Sports)
• NBA 2K21 (Visual Concepts/2K)
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 (Vicarious Visions/Activision) - WINNER

Best Multiplayer

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)
• Among Us (InnerSloth) - WINNER
• Call of Duty: Warzone (Infinity Ward/Raven/Activision)
• Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Mediatonic/Devolver)
• Valorant (Riot Games)

Best Debut Game

• Carrion (Phobia Game Studio/Devolver)
• Mortal Shell (Cold Symmetry/Playstack)
• Raji: An Ancient Epic (Nodding Heads Games)
• Röki (Polygon Treehouse/CI Games)
• Phasmophobia (Kinetic Games) - WINNER

Content Creator of the Year

• Alanah Pearce
• NickMercs
• TimtheTatman
• Jay Ann Lopez
• Valkyrae - WINNER

Best Esports Game

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Raven/Activision)
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
• Fortnite (Epic Games)
• League of Legends (Riot Games) - WINNER
• Valorant (Riot Games)

Best Esports Athlete

• Ian "Crimsix" Porter / Call of Duty
• Heo "Showmaker" Su / League of Legends - WINNER
• Kim "Canyon" Geon-bu / League of Legends
• Anthony "Shotzzy" Cuevas-Castro / Call of Duty
• Matthieu "ZywOo" Herbaut / CS:GO

Best Esports Team

• DAMWON Gaming / League of Legends
• Dallas Empire / Call of Duty
• San Francisco Shock / Overwatch League
• G2 Esports / League of Legends - WINNER
• Team Secret / DOTA2

Best Esports Event

• BLAST Premier: Spring E2020 European Finals (CS:GO)
• Call of Duty League Championship 2020
• IEM Katowice 2020 (CS:GO)
• League of Legends World Championship 2020 - WINNER
• Overwatch League Grand Finals 2020

Best Esports Host

• Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere - WINNER
• Alex "Machine" Richardson
• Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez
• James "Dash" Patterson
• Jorien "Sheever" van der Heijden

Best Esports Coach

• Crusty
• Grabbz
• Rambo
• Zefa
• Zonic - WINNER

Most Anticipated Game

• Elden Ring - WINNER
• God of War Sequel
• Halo Infinite
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sequel
• Resident Evil: Village
• Horizon Forbidden West

Player's Voice

• Doom: Eternal
• Ghost of Tsushima - WINNER
• Hades
• Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
• The Last of Us Part II

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