British Academy Games Award for Performer

The British Academy Video Games Award for Performer is an award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in honor of the best performance featured in a game "from voice artistry through to motion capture".^[1]

British Academy Video Games Award for Performer
Awarded for	Best performance in a game
Presented by	BAFTA
First awarded	2012
Last awarded	2018
Most awards	Ashley Johnson (2)
Most nominations	Troy Baker Nolan North (3)
Website	www.bafta.org/games

The award was first given at the 8th British Academy Video Games Awards ceremony in 2012, with Mark Hamill winning for his performance as the Joker in Batman: Arkham City.^[2] The performer with the most awards is Ashley Johnson with two, one each for her portrayal of Ellie in both The Last of Us and The Last of Us: Left Behind.^[3] Troy Baker and Nolan North received the most nominations with three.

Since 2019, the award has been split into "Performer in a Leading Role" and "Performer in a Supporting Role".^[4]

Winners and nominees

Ashley Johnson won twice, in 2013 and 2014

Nolan North (left) and Troy Baker both received three nominations

Mark Hamill, 2011 winner

Danny Wallace, 2012 winner

Merle Dandridge, 2015 winner

Jeremy Davies, 2018 winner

In the following table, the years are listed as per BAFTA convention, and generally correspond to the year of game release in the United Kingdom.

Table key

Indicates the winner

Year	Performer	Game	Role(s)	Ref.
2011 (8th)	Mark Hamill	Batman: Arkham City	The Joker	[2]
	Stephen Fry	LittleBigPlanet 2	Narrator
	Togo Igawa	Total War: Shogun 2	Diplomat, Advisor and Military General
	Stephen Merchant	Portal 2	Wheatley
	Nolan North	Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception	Nathan Drake
	Aaron Staton	L.A. Noire	Cole Phelps
2012 (9th)	Danny Wallace	Thomas Was Alone	Narrator	[5]
	Nigel Carrington	Dear Esther	Narrator
	Dave Fennoy	The Walking Dead	Lee Everett
	Adrian Hough	Assassin's Creed III	Haytham Kenway
	Melissa Hutchison	The Walking Dead	Clementine
	Nolan North	Uncharted: Golden Abyss	Nathan Drake
2013 (10th)	Ashley Johnson	The Last of Us	Ellie	[6]
	Troy Baker	The Last of Us	Joel Miller
	Kevan Brighting	The Stanley Parable	The Narrator
	Courtnee Draper	BioShock Infinite	Elizabeth
	Steven Ogg	Grand Theft Auto V	Trevor Philips
	Elliot Page	Beyond: Two Souls	Jodie Holmes
2014 (11th)	Ashley Johnson	The Last of Us: Left Behind	Ellie	[3]
	Troy Baker	Far Cry 4	Pagan Min
	Logan Cunningham	Transistor	Transistor
	Adam Harrington	The Wolf Among Us	Bigby Wolf
	Melissa Hutchison	The Walking Dead: Season Two	Clementine
	Kevin Spacey	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare	Jonathan Irons
2015 (12th)	Merle Dandridge	Everybody's Gone to the Rapture	Kate Collins	[7]
	Ashly Burch	Life Is Strange	Chloe Price
	Doug Cockle	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	Geralt of Rivia
	Oliver Dimsdale	Everybody's Gone to the Rapture	Stephen Appleton
	Mark Hamill	Batman: Arkham Knight	Joker
	Masasa Moyo	Broken Age: Act 2	Vella
2016 (13th)	Cissy Jones	Firewatch	Delilah	[8]
	Troy Baker	Uncharted 4: A Thief's End	Sam Drake
	Alex Hernandez	Mafia III	Lincoln Clay
	Navid Negahban	1979 Revolution: Black Friday	Hajj Agha
	Nolan North	Uncharted 4: A Thief's End	Nathan Drake
	Emily Rose	Uncharted 4: A Thief's End	Elena Fisher
2017 (14th)	Melina Juergens	Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice	Senua	[9]
	Laura Bailey	Uncharted: The Lost Legacy	Nadine Ross
	Claudia Black	Uncharted: The Lost Legacy	Chloe Frazer
	Ashly Burch	Horizon Zero Dawn	Aloy
	Valerie Rose Lohman	What Remains of Edith Finch	Edith Finch
	Abubakar Salim	Assassin's Creed Origins	Bayek
2018 (15th)	Jeremy Davies	God of War	The Stranger/Baldur	[10]
	Danielle Bisutti	God of War	Freya
	Roger Clark	Red Dead Redemption 2	Arthur Morgan
	Christopher Judge	God of War	Kratos
	Melissanthi Mahut	Assassin's Creed Odyssey	Kassandra
	Sunny Suljic	God of War	Atreus

Multiple wins and nominations

Performers

The following performers received two or more nominations:

Performer	Nominations	Wins
Troy Baker	3	0
Nolan North
Ashley Johnson	2	2
Mark Hamill		1
Ashly Burch		0
Melissa Hutchison

Series

The following series received two or more nominations:

Series / game	Nominations	Wins
Uncharted	7	0
God of War (game)	4	1
The Last of Us	3	2
Assassin's Creed		0
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
The Walking Dead
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture	2	1
The Last of Us (game)
Batman: Arkham		0
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
The Walking Dead (game)

References

1. "British Academy Games Awards Rules and Guidelines 2015" (PDF). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 May 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
2. "Games in 2012". BAFTA Awards. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
3. "Games in 2015". BAFTA Awards. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
4. Wales, Matt (September 9, 2019). "BAFTA announces new categories for 2020 video game awards, submissions now open". Eurogamer. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
5. "Games in 2013". BAFTA Awards. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on 13 April 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
6. "Games in 2014". BAFTA Awards. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
7. Nunneley, Stephany (7 April 2016). "Fallout 4 wins Best Game at 2016 BAFTA Game Awards". VG247. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
8. "Games in 2017 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
9. "What Remains of Edith Finch wins Bafta's top games award". BBC. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
10. "God of War wins best game at Bafta Awards". BBC News. 4 April 2019.

External links

• British Academy Video Games Awards official website