This year’s Grammy award winner for the best video game soundtrack of the year has been announced.
During the award ceremony last night, it was announced that this year’s Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media went to Winifred Phillips’ score for Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Phillips has been composing the music for video games for two decades now, with her previous works including the scores forGod of War, LittleBigPlanet 2 and 3,Sackboy: A Big AdventureandAssassin’s Creed 3: Liberation.
While Phillips has won numerous awards for her work over the years, it’s her music for Wizardry –Digital Eclipse‘s 3D remake of the classic 1981 RPG – that’s delivered her first ever Grammy award.
Wizardry’s score beat out fellow nomineesAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora(composed by Pinar Toprak),God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla (Bear McCreary),Marvel’s Spider-Man 2(John Paesano) andStar Wars Outlaws(Wilbert Roget II).
This was the third time the Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media award had been featured in the Grammy Awards, having made its debut at the 2023 ceremony.
The inaugural winner of the award in 2023 wasAssassin’s Creed Valhalla, followed byStar Wars Jedi: Survivorin 2024.
Bear McCreary is the only composer to have been nominated for this particular Grammy for all three years it’s been running, but he’s yet to win one.
Elsewhere during the ceremony, jazz orchestra The 8-Bit Big Bandwas nominated in the Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals categoryfor its cover ofPersona 5track Last Surprise, but failed to win the award.
