Winifred Phillips Wins Grammy for Best Video Game Soundtrack
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Winifred Phillips has won the award for Best Score for Video Games and Other Interactive Media at the 2025 Grammy Awards. This is the third time the award has been presented.
At the 2025 Grammy Awards, the Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media category was awarded for the third time. The winner is Winifred Phillips, composer of the original score for Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. The American composer beat off competition from Pinar Toprak (Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora), Bear McCreary (God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla), John Paesano (Marvel's Spider-Man 2) and Wilbert Roget, II (Star Wars Outlaws). Winifred Phillips has composed music for game franchises including Assassin's Creed, God of War, Jurassic World, Lineage, LittleBigPlanet, The Sims, Total War and Wizardry.
Stephen Barton and Gordy Haab (Star Wars Jedi: Survivor) won in 2024, and Stephanie Economou (Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök) was honoured in 2023, when the award was first presented. Bear McCreary has been nominated for the award every year, but has yet to win.
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