This award is "presented to the individual or team whose work represents the highest level of achievement in designing a unified graphic look for an interactive title".
[1] Creative/technical Academy members with expertise as an artist, animator or programmer are qualified to vote for this award.
[2] The award's most recent winner is Black Myth: Wukong, developed and published by Game Science.
[5][6] Since the categories separated, roughly half of the finalists and winners for "Art Direction" and "Animation" were the same game within its respective release year.
Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Ubisoft, and Square Enix Europe have the distinction of publishing multiple nominees within the same year.