After 25 years, one of the creators of GTA finally received a BAFTA award

6 June 2024

Диана Голенко

The sound director and level designer of Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 achieved a well-deserved award after a quarter of a century. In 1999, the add-on for the first GTA won a BAFTA award for best sound, but its creator was not even mentioned.

Blair Renaud, one of the developers at Rockstar Canada, was responsible for the sound design of the GTA: London '69 add-on. His work was so good that the expansion won a BAFTA Award for Best Sound at the 1999 Interactive Game Awards. But the sound engineer himself was not even invited to the award ceremony, and a Take-Two representative received the statuette.

Blair Renaud told Time Extension:

“We went on the night, and I see this marketing dude going up and giving this speech about how amazing they’d been and what great work they’d done on this title. One, I don’t know who you are. Two, I’ve never heard of you. Three, have I mentioned I’ve never heard of you? Four, you have nothing to do with the thing that you’re claiming credit for. Nothing at all."

Upon learning of this, the developer contacted BAFTA for clarification, but to no avail. For about 25 years, Blair Reno tried to contact someone from the organization until he turned to Time Extension for help. As a result, through joint efforts, the sound engineer and the publication achieved a positive response from BAFTA. The organization finally sent the statuette, which was more than two decades late.

Let us remind you that recently information appeared in the media that Take-Two wants to get rid of the Private Division.

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