Star Awards 2006
Star Awards 2006 is a television awards ceremony telecast in 2006 as part of the annual Star Awards organised by MediaCorp for MediaCorp TV Channel 8. The ceremony, alongside the Walk-of-fame and the Post-show party, were held on 10 December 2006 in Singapore and was hosted by Guo Liang and Taiwanese host Patty Hou.
This year saw precedents in Star Awards history: it was the second ceremony in Star Awards history that the ceremony was held outside the Caldecott Hill since the 1996 ceremony, where it was instead held on a pub at St James Power Station ; it was also the first Star Awards ceremony to be awarded the Best Variety Special in 2007.
Winners and nominees
Unless otherwise stated, winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.Backstage Achievement Awards Ceremony
As like preceding ceremonies, Professional and Technical Awards were presented before the main ceremony via a clip montage due to time constraints. The lists of winners are only reflected in the table.Main Ceremony
Special Award
All Time Favourite Award
This award is a special achievement award given out to artiste who have achieved a maximum of 10 popularity awards over 10 years. The award will not be presented in 2007, as there are no recipients with ten Top 10 Most Popular Male or Female Artistes award wins to allow the award to be presented that year.| Chen Liping 陈莉萍 |
Viewership Awards
Awards eligible for voting
Top 10 Most Popular Artiste
Presenters and performers
The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.| Artistes / Special guests | Presented / Performed |
| Angie Chiu 赵雅芝 Francis Ng 吴镇宇 | Presented Best Drama Serial |
| Judges of Project SuperStar: Billy Koh 许环良 Lee Wei Song 李伟菘 Li Feihui 李沸挥 Anthony Png 方钟桦 Dawn Yip 叶佩芬 | Presented Best Variety Show |
| Anthony Bao 包小松 Tino Bao 包小柏 | Presented Best Variety Special |
| Dylan Kuo 郭品超 Joe "Joseph" Cheng 郑元畅 | Presented Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor |
| CEO, MediaCorp Lucas Chow 周永强 | Gave out All-Star Favourite Artiste |
| Mavis Hee 许美静 | Presented Best Newcomer |
| KPMG Singapore associate 李诗莹 | Gave presenter result list |
| Hee Theng Fong 许廷芳 | Presented Best News / Current Affairs Presenter |
| Chi-Chien Kuo 郭子乾 Tai Chih-yuan 邰智源 | Presented comedic skit and Best Variety Show Host |
| Kong Jiu 九孔 | Performed "天上人间", "心太软" and "不变的心" as entrance performance during comedic skit |
| Francis Ng 吴镇宇 | Presented Best Actress |
| Angie Chiu 赵雅芝 Melvin Wong 黃錦燊 | Presented Best Actor |
| Tony Sun 孫協志 Zax Wang 王仁甫 | Presented Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes |
| Nick Cheung 張家輝 Jessica Hsuan 宣萱 | Presented Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes |
Trivia
Prelude Episode
An eight-week half-hour series, titled Star Awards Up-close premiered on Tuesdays 8:30 pm from 17 October until 5 December, focusing on the award show leading up to the actual show on 10 December, along with presentation of 'side awards'. The weekly popularity results for the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes were announced as well. The series was hosted by Dasmond Koh and Christina Lin.Nominations and wins
- Singers Kelvin Tan, Candyce Toh and Chew Sin Huey were notable for their first nominations for the Top 10 Most Popular artiste award.
- Newscaster Tung Soo Hua won her third consecutive "Best News Presenter" award, part of the five-win streak since she won her first award in 2004 until the category retired in 2010.
Criticism
St. James Power Station, which was selected as the venue, was also criticised by viewers, citing that the venue was too small to host award ceremonies as artistes and audience were either squeezed in or forced out of the venue due to limited space. However, four other venues outside the MediaCorp Studios at Caldecott studios were much more favourable in hosting live performances since, specifically Star Awards.
The nominations also saw controversies whereas the potential artistes, notably Aileen Tan, who had two leading roles, failed to receive nominations for both Best Actresses and the Top 10 Most Favourite artiste, in the place for singers Kelvin Tan, Candyce Toh and Chew Sin Huey, all of which were nominated for the first time. This led to outrage by Tan's detractors, who claimed that she has taken on stereotype roles, particular that of fierce, angry and constantly screaming characters too many times, which could have impacted her nomination chances.
During the award ceremony, both the acceptance speeches for Tay Ping Hui and Huang Yiliang had resulted in complaints lodged by the viewers. The guest presenters were also heavily criticised in terms on jokes, leading MediaCorp to force out fans from entering the pub.
The adjustment of the ratio for the "Top 10 Most Favourite Artistes" received mixed reviews about the 50% allocation of the final results, which was done in August 2006 by a survey of about 600 Singaporeans. The reviews ranging from advantages assumed by newer artistes, but also a bit of criticism when rumours were spread on why Kelvin Tan Wei Lian lost by some votes in the weekly survey results. Despite this, the 50% allocation would later be returned in Star Awards 2018, and revised where it was done on a derivation of 1,000 votes.