4th British Academy Games Awards


The 4th British Academy Video Games Awards, awarded by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, was an award ceremony held on 23 October 2007 in Battersea Evolution. The ceremony honoured achievement in 2007 for games which were released between 6 October 2006 and 5 October 2007 and was hosted by Vic Reeves. Wii Sports led with the most nominations with seven. Wii Sports was the major winner on the night, taking six of the seven awards available, equaling the record Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Half-Life 2 had with the most awards won in any BAFTA Video Games Awards ceremony. BioShock took the main prize of Best Game.

Winners and nominees

Winners are shown first in bold.

  • Wii Sports – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo
  • *Colin McRae: Dirt – Codemasters/Codemasters
  • *Football Manager 2008 – Sports Interactive/Sega
  • *FIFA 08 – EA Canada/EA Sports
  • *MotorStorm – Evolution Studios/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • *Virtua Tennis 3 – Sega and Sumo Digital/Sega
  • Ōkami – Clover Studio/Capcom
  • *BioShock – 2K Boston and 2K Australia/2K Games
  • *Heavenly Sword – Ninja Theory/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • *Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction – Insomniac Games/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • *Skate – EA Black Box/Electronic Arts
  • *Viva Piñata – Rare/Microsoft Game Studios
  • God of War II – Cory Barlog, James Barlog and Marianne Krawczyk, Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • *Final Fantasy XII – Daisuke Watanabe, Miwa Shoda and Yasumi Matsuno, Square Enix/Square Enix
  • *Heavenly Sword – Tameem Antoniades, Rhianna Pratchett and Andrew S. Walsh, Ninja Theory/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • *Ōkami – Hideki Kamiya, Clover Studio/Capcom
  • *The Darkness – Starbreeze Studios/2K Games
  • *The Simpsons Game – EA Redwood Shores/Electronic Arts
  • BioShock – 2K Boston and 2K Australia/2K Games
  • *Crysis – Crytek/Electronic Arts
  • *Gears of War – Epic Games/Microsoft Game Studios
  • *Guitar Hero II – Harmonix/Activision
  • *Kane & Lynch: Dead Men – IO Interactive/Eidos Interactive
  • *Wii Sports – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo
  • Wii Sports – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo
  • *Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars – EA Los Angeles/Electronic Arts
  • *Forza Motorsport 2 – Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Game Studios
  • *Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms – Creative Assembly/Sega
  • *Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft
  • *World in Conflict – Massive Entertainment/Sierra Entertainment
  • Wii Sports – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo
  • *Big Brain Academy for Wii – Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development Group No. 4/Nintendo
  • *Cake Mania – Sandlot Games/Sandlot Games
  • *Guitar Hero II – Harmonix/Activision
  • *More Brain Training – Nintendo SPD/Nintendo
  • *SingStar – London Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • God of War II – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • *Crackdown – Realtime Worlds/Microsoft Game Studios
  • *Gears of War – Epic Games/Microsoft Game Studios
  • *MotorStorm – Evolution Studios/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • *Ōkami – Clover Studio/Capcom
  • *Uncharted: Drake's Fortune – Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • Wii Sports – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo
  • *Crackdown – Realtime Worlds/Microsoft Game Studios
  • *Gears of War – Epic Games/Microsoft Game Studios
  • *Sega Rally – Sega Racing Studio/Sega
  • *The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo
  • *Warhawk – Incognito Entertainment and Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • Crackdown – Realtime Worlds/Microsoft Game Studios
  • *Elite Beat Agents – iNiS/Nintendo
  • *Gears of War – Epic Games/Microsoft Game Studios
  • *God of War II – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • *Guitar Hero II – Harmonix/Activision
  • *Skate – EA Black Box/Electronic Arts
  • Wii Sports – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo
  • *flOw – thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • *Ōkami – Clover Studio/Capcom
  • *Super Paper Mario – Intelligent Systems and Nintendo SPD/Nintendo
  • *The Eye of Judgment – Japan Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • *Trauma Center: Second Opinion – Atlus/Atlus
  • Ragnarawk – Voodoo Boogy
  • *Bear Go Home – Phoenix Seed
  • *Climbatic
  • Wii Sports – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo
  • *Battlefield 2142 – EA DICE/Electronic Arts
  • *Crackdown – Realtime Worlds/Microsoft Game Studios
  • *Guitar Hero II – Harmonix/Activision
  • *World in Conflict – Massive Entertainment/Sierra Entertainment
  • *World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment
  • Football Manager 2007 – Sports Interactive/Sega
  • *Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training – Nintendo SPD/Nintendo
  • *FIFA 07 – EA Canada/Electronic Arts
  • *Gears of War – Epic Games/Microsoft Game Studios
  • *Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories – Rockstar Leeds and Rockstar North/Rockstar Games
  • *Resistance: Fall of Man – Insomniac Games/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • *Wii Play – Nintendo EAD Group No. 2/Nintendo
  • Ōkami – Masami Ueda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Rei Kondoh and Akari Groves, Clover Studio/Capcom
  • *Final Fantasy XII – Hitoshi Sakimoto, Hayato Matsuo and Masaharu Iwata, Square Enix/Square Enix
  • *God of War II – Gerard Marino, Ron Fish, Mike Reagan and Cris Velasco, Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • *Lair – John Debney, Factor 5/Sony Computer Entertainment
  • *The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess – Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ohta, Nintendo EAD/Nintendo
  • *Viva Piñata – Grant Kirkhope, Rare/Microsoft Game Studios
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    Academy Fellowship

    Games with multiple nominations and wins

    Wins

    • Two separate franchises garnered more than one nomination.