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The award was introduced to recognize the impact of music specifically written for video games and other interactive media. This is a sister category to the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media , which previously honored scores written for film, television and video games, though Journey in 2013 was the only game ever nominated.
Video game soundtracks considered the best Year Game Lead composer(s) Notes Ref. 1985 Super Mario Bros. Koji Kondo: The Super Mario Bros. theme was the first musical piece from a video game to be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry. [1] [A] 1988 Mega Man 2: Takashi Tateishi [B] 1989 Tetris: Hirokazu Tanaka: Game ...
It was the first video game soundtrack to be recorded with A-list musicians at Abbey Road Studios' Studio One. [11] The soundtrack was well received, [12] and won multiple awards including Game Audio Network Guild 'Recognition Award', [13] and was performed at the first Symphonic Game Music Concert at The Gewandhaus in Leipzig and Video Games ...
Two-time winner Lady Gaga is the first woman to receive the award in consecutive years and the only person to win this category multiple times for the same media soundtrack. Lin-Manuel Miranda won in 2018. Billie Eilish won in 2021 and 2024 alongside her brother, Finneas O'Connell, and is the youngest person to win this category.
The Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song in a Video Game is one of the awards given annually to people working in the entertainment industry by the Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best "original" song, written specifically for video game. The award was first given ...
The award is given to the composers/development team, the developer and the publisher of the winning game. The award was first presented at the 1st British Academy Games Awards under the name Original Music. From the 3rd edition to the 7th, the category was named Original Score. It returned to its original name from the 8th to the 10th editions.
The British Academy Games Awards are an annual British awards ceremony honoring "outstanding creative achievement" in the video game industry. First presented in 2004 following the restructuring of the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards, the awards are presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and are thus commonly referred to as the BAFTA Games Awards.
In 1984, Haruomi Hosono released the first generally recognized video game soundtrack album, Video Game Music, [4] [5] and the practice experienced its "golden age" in the mid-to-late 1980s with hundreds of releases including Buckner & Garcia's Pac-Man Fever, Namco's Video Game Graffiti, and Koichi Sugiyama's orchestral covers of the Dragon ...