The Game Awards is now the video game industry's big annual award show, and the December event always has plenty of announcements and surprises to make any fan happy. Tonight's event was hosted again by Geoff Keighley to hand out numerous accolades to studios and creators in the industry.

While this year's awards show couldn't have a live audience, the producers still made sure to create an engaging experience through interactive programming, airing on multiple platforms, and promoting co-streams of the event. The Game Awards also featured presenters such as Gal Gadot, Keanu Reeves, Reggie Fils-Aimé, and other entertainment industry professionals to give fans a memorable show.

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Arguably, the most anticipated award of the night is that of Game of the Year. Quite a variety of genres were up for the award this year, and if any of the games had won, they would have been in good company with winners such as last year's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Going into the night, The Last of Us Part II led the pack with nine nominations, including Game of the Year. Other games such as HadesGhost of Tsushima, and Final Fantasy VII Remake also received multiple nominations.

For fans who didn't have a chance to watch the awards show live, here are all the Game Awards nominees and winners for the 30 categories celebrated this year.

The Game Awards 2020 Winners

The Game Awards 2020 Predictions

Game of the Year

Doom Eternal from Id Software/Bethesda

Final Fantasy VII Remake from Square Enix

Ghost of Tsushima from Sucker Punch/SIE

Hades from Supergiant Games

Animal Crossing: New Horizons from Nintendo

The Last of Us Part II from Naughty Dog/SIE (WINNER)

Best Game Direction

Final Fantasy VII Remake from Square Enix

Ghost of Tsushima from Sucker Punch/SIE

Hades from Supergiant Games

Half-Life: Alyx from Valve

The Last of Us Part II from Naughty Dog/SIE (WINNER)

Best Narrative

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim written by George Kamitani

Final Fantasy VII Remake written by Kazushige Nojima, Motomu Toriyama, Hiroaki Iwaki and Sachie Hirano

Ghost of Tsushima written by Ian Ryan, Liz Albl, Patrick Downs, Jordan Lemos and Nate Fox

Hades written by Greg Kasavin

The Last of Us Part II written by Neil Druckmann and Halley Gross (WINNER)

Best Art Direction

Final Fantasy VII Remake from Square Enix

Ghost of Tsushima from Sucker Punch/SIE (WINNER)

Hades from Supergiant Games

Ori and the Will of the Wisps from Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios

The Last of Us Part II from Naughty Dog/SIE

Best Score and Music

Doom Eternal composed by Mick Gordon

Final Fantasy VII Remake composed by Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu and Mitsuto Suzuki (WINNER)

Hades composed by Darren Korb

Ori and the Will of the Wisps composed by Gareth Coker

The Last of Us Part II composed by Gustavo Santaolalla, additional music by Mac Quayle

Best Audio Design

Doom Eternal from Id Software/Bethesda

Half-Life: Alyx from Valve

Ghost of Tsushima from Sucker Punch/SIE

Resident Evil 3 from Capcom

The Last of Us Part II from Naughty Dog/SIE (WINNER)

The Last of Us 2 Future Days

Best Performance

Ashley Johnson as Ellie in The Last of Us Part II

Laura Bailey as Abby in The Last of Us Part II (Winner)

Daisuke Tsuji as Jin Sakai in Ghost of Tsushima

Logan Cunningham as Hades in Hades

Nadji Jeter as Miles Morales in Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Games for Impact

If Found... from Dreamfeel

Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition from Cardboard Computer

Spiritfarer from Thunder Lotus Games

Tell Me Why from Dontnod Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios (WINNER)

Through the Darkest of Times from Paintbucket Games

Best Ongoing

Apex Legends from Respawn/EA

Destiny 2 from Bungie

Call of Duty: Warzone from Infinity Ward/Activision/Raven Software

Fortnite from Epic Games

No Man's Sky from Hello Games (WINNER)

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Best Indie

Carrion from Phobia Games/Devolver

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout from Mediatonic/Devolver

Hades from Supergiant Games (WINNER)

Spelunky 2 from Mossmouth, LLC

Spiritfarer from Thunder Lotus Games

Best Mobile Game

Among Us from Innersloth (WINNER)

Call of Duty Mobile from TiMi Studios/Activision

Genshin Impact from miHoYo

Legends of Runeterra from Riot Games

Pokémon Café Mix from Genius Sonority

Best Community Support

Apex Legends from Respawn/EA

Destiny 2 from Bungie

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout from Mediatonic/Devolver (WINNER)

Fortnite from Epic Games

No Man's Sky from Hello Games

Valorant from Riot Games

Best VR/AR

Dreams from Media Molecule/SIE

Half-Life: Alyx from Valve (WINNER)

Marvel's Iron Man VR from Camouflaj/SIE

Star Wars: Squadrons from Motive Studios/EA

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners from Skydance Interactive

Alyx from Half-Life Alyx

Innovation in Accessibility

Assassin's Creed Valhalla from Ubisoft Montreal

Grounded from Obsidian Entertainment

Hyperdot from Tribe Games

The Last of Us Part II from Naughty Dog/SIE (WINNER)

Watch Dogs Legion from Ubisoft Toronto

Best Action

Doom Eternal from id Software/Bethesda

Hades from Supergiant Games (WINNER)

Half-Life: Alyx from Valve

Nioh 2 from Team Ninja

Streets of Rage 4 from Dotemu

Best Action/Adventure

Assassin's Creed Valhalla from Ubisoft Montreal

Ghost of Tsushima from Sucker Punch/SIE

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales from Insomniac Games/SIE

Ori and the Will of the Wisps from Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order from Respawn/EA

The Last of Us Part II from Naughty Dog/SIE (WINNER)

Best Role Playing

Final Fantasy VII Remake from Square Enix (WINNER)

Genshin Impact from miHoYo

Persona 5 Royal from Atlus/P Studio/SEGA

Wasteland 3 from Inxile/Deep Silver

Yakuza: Like a Dragon from Ryu Ga Gotoku/SEGA

Best Fighting

Granblue Fantasy: Versus from Arc System Works/Cygames/XSEED

Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate from NetherRealm Studios/WB Games (WINNER)

Street Fighter V: Champion Edition from Dimps/Capcom

One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows from Spike Chunsoft/Bandai Namco

Under Night In-Birth EXE:Late (cl-r) from French Bread/Arc System Works/Aksys

Best Family

Animal Crossing: New Horizons from Nintendo (WINNER)

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time from Toys for Bob/Activision

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout from Mediatonic/Devolver

Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit from Velan Studios/Nintendo

Minecraft Dungeons from Mojang/Double Eleven/Xbox Game Studios

Paper Mario: The Origami King from Intelligent Systems/Nintendo

Best Sim/Strategy

Crusader Kings III from Paradox Development Studio/Paradox

Desperados III from Mimimi Games/THQN

Gears Tactics from Splash Damage/The Coalition/Xbox Game Studios

Microsoft Flight Simulator from Asobo/Xbox Game Studios (WINNER)

XCOM: Chimera Squad from Firaxis/2K

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Best Sports/Racing

Dirt 5 from Codemasters Cheshire/Codemasters

F1 2020 from Codemasters Birmingham/Codemasters

FIFA 21 from EA Vancouver/EA Romania

NBA 2K21 from Visual Concepts/2K

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 from Vicarious Visions/Activision (WINNER)

Best Multiplayer

Animal Crossing: New Horizons from Nintendo

Among Us from Innersloth (WINNER)

Call of Duty: Warzone from Infinity Ward/Activision/Rave Software

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout from Mediatonic/Devolver

Valorant from Riot Games

Content Creator of the Year

Alanah Pearce

Jay-Ann Lopez

NICKMERCS

TimTheTatman

Valkyrae (WINNER)

Best Debut Game

Carrion from Phobia Game Studio/Devolver

Mortal Shell from Cold Symmetry

Raji: An Ancient Epic from Nodding Heads Games

Röki from Polygon Treehouse

Phasmophobia from Kinetic Games (WINNER)

Best Esports Athlete

Ian "Crimsix" Porter

Heo "Showmaker" Su (WINNER)

Kim "Canyon" Geon-Bu

Anthony "Shotzzy" Cuevas Castro

Matthieu "Zywoo" Herbaut

Best Esports Coach

Danny "Zonic" Sorensen (WINNER)

Dae-Hee "Crusty" Park

Fabian "Grabbz" Lohmann

Lee "Zefa" Jae-Min

Raymond "Rambo" Lussier

Best Esports Event

Blast Premier: Spring 2020 European Finals

Call of Duty League Championship 2020

IEM Katowice 2020

League of Legends World Championship 2020 (WINNER)

Overwatch League Grand Finals 2020

Deer-like champion Lillia Splash Art from League of Legends

Best Esports Game

Call of Duty: Warzone from Infinity Ward/Activision/Raven Software

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive from Valve

Fortnite from Epic Games

League of Legends from Riot Games (WINNER)

Valorant from Riot Games

Best Esports Host

Alex "Goldenboy" mended

Alex "Machine" Richardson

Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere (WINNER)

James "Dash" Patterson

Jorien "Sheever" Van der Heijden

Best Esports Team

Damwon Gaming

Dallas Empire

G2 Esports (WINNER)

San Francisco Shock

Team Secret

And there are the winners for The Game Awards 2020 in all 30 categories. Hopefully gaming fans were happy with some, if not all, of the winners throughout the night. While The Last of Us Part II was initially controversial with some fans, the Naughty Dog team did end up winning seven out of the nine nominations they went into the night with.

Fans were treated to multiple new game announces, new gameplay trailers, content updates for existing games, and musical performances. The Game Awards also announced their inaugural Future Class, a group being honored for promoting a bright and inclusive future in gaming. Everything together made this a massive night for the video game industry, and congratulations are in order for all the winners. Whatever happens next year, it looks like The Game Awards will continue to be a staple in the industry for a long time.

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Source: The Game Awards