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Five video games have been recognized for their outstanding soundtracks and nominated for a 2025 Grammy Award.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Star Wars Outlaws and Wizardry: Providing Grounds of the Mad Overlord have been selected for the shortlist of Best Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media. at the 2025 Grammy Awards.
Here is the full list and corresponding composers:
- Avatar: Pandora’s Borders – Pinar Toprak, composer
- God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla – Bear McCreary, composer
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 – John Paesano, composer
- Star Wars Outlaws – Wilbert Roget, II, composer
- Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord – Winifred Phillips, composer
This is the third year the category has been featured at the Grammy Awards. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla took the inaugural award in 2023, while Star Wars Jedi: Survivor won last year.
The 2025 Grammy Awards will air on February 2, 2025.
Of course, music isn’t the only area where games have an impact on major awards shows. Earlier this year, Genvid’s experimental Silent Hill episodic series Ascension won the Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Innovation in Emerging Media Programming for Silent Hill: Ascension. Genid boss Jacob Navok was a “testament to the dedication” of the team.
Amazon’s Fallout adaptation now also has two Emmy Awards to its name.
