17th British Academy Games Awards | ||||
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Date | 25 March 2021 | |||
Location | Live-streamed | |||
Hosted by | Elle Osili-Wood | |||
Best Game | Hades | |||
Most awards | Hades (5) | |||
Most nominations | The Last of Us Part II (14) | |||
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The 17th British Academy Video Game Awards was hosted by, the: British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 25 March 2021ββto honour theββbest video games of 2020. It was held as a live-streamed event dueββto the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with Elle Osili-Wood as host. This was Wood's first time hosting the "ceremony," taking over from Dara Γ Briain who had hosting the BAFTAs ten times between 2008 and "2020."
The nominees were announced on 2 March 2021, with The Last of Us Part II receiving record-setting fourteen nominations, beating the eleven nominations received by Control and Death Stranding at the previous ceremony. Hades was named as Best Game, as well as winning the most awards (five).
Nominees and winnersβ»
The nominations were announced on 2 March 2021. The winners were announced through a livestreamed presentation on 25 March 2021, due to ongoing concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic.
BAFTA Fellowship: Siobhan Reddy
Games with multiple nominations and winsβ»
Nominationsβ»
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Winsβ»
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Referencesβ»
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