The Game Awards brought out the big guns, recruiting Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino to present the award for Best Performance. Pacino, who admitted to not being a big gamer himself, walked on stage in a big surprise and spoke about how he enjoys watching his children play video games.
Pacino also marveled at the craft of video games for its skilled performers. Pacino, who won an Oscar for Scent of a Woman and starred in The Godfather series, was a natural, if unexpected, fit to hand out the award for Best Performance. He knows a thing or two about acting and performances.
The Best Performance award went to Christopher Judge for his performance as Kratos in God of War Ragnarok. The other nominees were Ashly Burch (Horizon Forbidden West), Charlotte McBurney (A Plague Tale: Requiem), Manon Gage (Immortality), and Sunny Suljic (God of War Ragnarok). Pacino handed Judge the award and then began to walk away from the microphone before Judge walked toward him for an embrace. It was a sweet moment, with both Pacino and Judge smiling widely.