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    Aaron Garbut

    Awards & Honours

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    Awards Won

    1

    Honours

    1

    Rankings

    3

    Covers

    1

    Records

    Aaron Garbut's games have won Game of the Year at the BAFTA Games Awards, D.I.C.E. Awards, Golden Joystick Awards, and The Game Awards. As the art director and later co-studio head of Rockstar North, he has been instrumental in creating two of the best-selling entertainment products of all time: Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2. His visual direction has set the standard for open-world realism and environmental storytelling in the medium.

    Awards

    Honours & Distinctions

    BAFTA Fellowship (to Rockstar Games)

    BAFTA·2014

    Rockstar Games received the BAFTA Fellowship; Garbut, as a key creative lead, is associated with this honour.

    Rankings & Lists

    #Listed multiple times

    Develop 100 Most Influential People

    Develop Magazine·Various

    Magazine Covers

    EDGE Magazine

    2013

    Grand Theft Auto V cover story

    EDGE Magazine

    2018

    Red Dead Redemption 2 cover story

    Develop Magazine

    2019

    Rockstar North leadership feature

    Records & Feats

    Art director of the best-selling entertainment product of all time

    Sales·2013

    Garbut was the art director for Grand Theft Auto V, which has sold over 185 million copies, making it the second best-selling video game of all time and the most profitable entertainment product ever.