Lifetime Achievement Award
Will Wright
First Penguin Award
Chip Morningstar & Randy Farmer
For Habitat/Club Caribe (LucasFilm)
Rookie Studio Award
Counter-Strike team (Counter-Strike)
Free Radical Design (TimeSplitters)
Massive Entertainment (Ground Control)
Nihilistic Software (Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption)
Planet Moon Studios (Giants: Citizen Kabuto)
IGDA Award for Community Contribution
John Carmack
Chris Crawford
Michael Abrash
Robert Huebner
Warren Spector
Original Game Character of the Year
Seaman (Seaman)
Cate Archer (No One Lives Forever)
Kabuto (Giants: Citizen Kabuto)
Ulala (Space Channel 5)
Tamale Loco (Tamale Loco @ shockwave.com)
Excellence in Audio
Matt Uelmen, Jason Hayes, Glenn Stafford & Andrea Pessino - Diablo II (composition)
Michael Sweet - BliX (music)
Fumitaka Shibata - Samba de Amigo (music)
Naofumi Hataya & Kenichi Tokoi - Space Channel 5 (music)
Kemal Amarasingham & Eric Brosius - Thief II: The Metal Age (sound effects)
Excellence in Game Design
Harvey Smith & Warren Spector - Deus Ex (game design)
Sean Clark & Michael Stemmle - Escape from Monkey Island (puzzles)
Shigeru Miyamoto & Eiji Aonuma - Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (gameplay)
Ragnar Tornquist - The Longest Journey (story)
Neversoft Entertainment - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (gameplay)
Excellence in Level Design
American McGee, Jim Molinets & team - American McGee's Alice
NOLF level design team - No One Lives Forever
Michel Ancel & team - Rayman 2: The Great Escape
SSX level design team - SSX
Christopher Foster, Tom Odell & team - Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
Excellence in Programming
Sims programming team - The Sims (AI)
Yu Suzuki & team - F355 Challenge (physics)
Scott Guest & Andy Astor - Giants: Citizen Kabuto (graphics)
Visual Concepts dev team - NFL2K1 (networking)
Martin Brownlow - Sacrifice (graphics)
Excellence in Visual Arts
Ryuta Ueda & Kazuki Hosokawa - Jet Grind Radio (art direction)
American McGee - American McGee's Alice (art direction)
Tomonobu Itagaki, Hiroaki Matsui & team - Dead or Alive 2 (animation)
Joby Otero - Sacrifice (art direction)
Insomniac art team - Spyro: Year of the Dragon (art direction)
Game of the Year
The Sims (Maxis)
Deus Ex (ION Storm Austin)
Jet Grind Radio (Smilebit)
No One Lives Forever (Monolith)
Shenmue (Sega AM2)
Game Spotlight Awards
Counter-Strike (Counter-Strike team)
Crazy Taxi (Sega AM3)
Deus Ex (ION Storm Austin)
Jet Grind Radio (Smilebit)
No One Lives Forever (Monolith)
American McGee's Alice (Rogue/EA)
NFL2K1 (Visual Concepts)
Sacrifice (Shiny)
Samba de Amigo (Sega Sonic Team)
Seaman (Vivarium)
Shenmue (Sega AM2)
SSX (EA Canada)
The Sims (Maxis)
Virtua Tennis (Sega)
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Nintendo)