The 2026 Grammy nominations have been introduced, together with the 5 video video games up for Greatest Soundtrack.
Video games nominated within the online game class this yr embody Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – Secrets and techniques of the Spires (Pinar Toprak), Helldivers 2 (Wilbert Roget), Indiana Jones And The Nice Circle (Gordy Haab), Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate’s Fortune (Cody Matthew Johnson & Wilbert Roget, II), and Sword of the Sea (Austin Wintory).
Helldivers 2, regardless of releasing earlier than this yr’s eligibility window of August 2024 – 2025, is ready to be included as a result of its soundtrack being launched a lot later than the sport launch.
The most important shock, nevertheless, is arguably a title lacking from the checklist. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the second-highest rated new sport of the yr, has been No. 1 on the Billboard Classical charts for ten weeks, and composer Lorien Testard lately gained the WSA Sport Music Award.
Writer Kepler submitted Clair Obscur for consideration in two Grammy classes: Greatest Rating Soundtrack for Video Video games, and Greatest Music Written for Visible Media.
That is the third time the Greatest Rating Soundtrack for Video Video games and Different Interactive Media award has been featured within the Grammy Awards, having made its debut on the 2023 ceremony.
Based on the Recording Academy, the award “acknowledges excellence in rating soundtrack albums comprised predominantly of authentic scores and created particularly for, or as a companion to, a present online game or different interactive media launched inside the qualification interval.”
The inaugural winner of the award in 2023 was Murderer’s Creed Valhalla, whose Daybreak of Ragnarök DLC rating by Stephanie Economou beat out Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Name of Responsibility: Vanguard, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, and Outdated World.
The 2024 award was gained by Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, composed by Stephen Barton and Gordy Haab. It beat Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare II, God of Battle Ragnarök, Hogwarts Legacy, and Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical.
The 2025 Grammy went to Winifred Phillips’ rating for Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, beating Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, God of Battle Ragnarök: Valhalla, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and Star Wars Outlaws.
