This Longtime Music Game Composer Has Won A Grammy

It’s always good to see longtime game composers get their day in the sun, especially in the 67th Annual Grammy Awards spotlight. The prestigious music awards ceremony, whose nominees and winners are determined by the Recording Academy, just awarded its victors recently during the show on 2nd February 2025.

The winner for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media is Winifred Phillips for her awesome score of last year’s Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord from developer/publisher Digital Eclipse. The rest of the nominees in this category include Pinar Toprak for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Bear McCreary for God of War: Ragnarok, John Paesano for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and Wilberg Roget II for Star Wars Outlaws.

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Previous winners for past years are Stephen Barton and Gordy Haab for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2024) and Stephanie Economou for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok (2023). The category was amended to establish a qualification that more than 50% of the music/recording must be derived from new content/episodes/programming released during the Grammy eligibility year, hence the nominees being games with orchestral scores from 2022.

Winifred Phillips has been in the games industry since 2004. Her first score was for the very first God of War for PlayStation 2 back in 2005. Her standout works include the LittleBigPlanet series, Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, and Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.

Check out her works below: