Star Awards 2009
Star Awards 2009 was a television award ceremony held in Singapore. It was part of the annual Star Awards organised by MediaCorp for its Chinese language division. The awards took place at 26 April 2009 starting at 7pm at MediaCorp Studios, followed by a post-show party airing on Channel U after the ceremony ended.
The nominations were announced on 24 February 2009, and the popularity awards later on 27 March. As like previous years, most technical category awards were presented outside the ceremony. The Best Info-Ed Programme Host award was introduced to recognise infotainment show hosts.
The nomination lists for the main categories were announced on 24 February 2009. Nominations for the popularity awards were announced on 27 March 2009.
In contrast of previous Star Awards ceremonies which were held at the end of the year, a change in the eligibility period for television season resulted in 2008 having no ceremonies, and this was the first award ceremony in Star Awards history to be held on the month of April and the format had remained for the future ceremonies since; however, the format was disrupted in the 2020 ceremony as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which caused the ceremony to be postponed from the usual April.
Due to a format change on having two shows in the following year, this was the last Star Awards ceremony, to present the Technical Awards outside the main show until Star Awards 2016, as well as hosting a single award ceremony until Star Awards 2017.
The Little Nyonya became the biggest winner for the 2009 ceremony, having records of breaking the number of nominations and wins with 16 and 9, respectively, surpassing the former record holder in the 2003 ceremony's drama, Holland V, which got 10 and 7, respectively. The record for the nominations would remain held until the 2014 ceremony, where it was first beaten by The Dream Makers , which had 21 nominations and a record-tying nine wins; the number of wins would also be beaten in the 2016 ceremony, in which The Dream Makers surpassed the record of both nominations and wins with 26 and 12, respectively.
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
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All Time Favourite Artiste
This award is a special achievement award given out to artiste who have achieved a maximum of 10 popularity awards over 10 years.| Huang Bi Ren 黄碧仁 |
Top 10 awards
Top 10 Highest Viewership Local Dramas 2008
Presenters
The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.| Artistes / Special guests | Presented / Performed |
| Acting Minister, Information, Communications and the Arts Lui Tuck Yew 吕德耀 | Gave out award for Best Drama Serial |
| Chen Meifeng 陈美风 Jason Wang 王识贤 | Presented Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress |
| Chairman, MediaCorp Ho Kwon Ping 何光平 | Presented Best Variety Special |
| CEO, MediaCorp Lucas Chow 周永强 | Presented Best Variety Programme |
| National University of Singapore Associate Professor Chin Kwee Nyat 陈桂月 | Presented Best News / Current Affairs Presenter |
| Chen Liping 陈莉萍 Chew Chor Meng 周初明 | Presented Best Newcomer |
| Sam Tseng 曾国城 | Presented Best Info-Ed Show Host and Best Variety Programme Host |
| President of Singapore S.R. Nathan 纳丹 | Gave out award for All-Time Favourite Artiste |
| David Chiang 姜大卫 Kathy Chow 周海媚 | Presented Best Actor and Best Actress |
| Ada Choi 蔡少芬 Xia Yu 夏雨 Myolie Wu 胡杏儿 | Presented Top 10 Most Favourite Male Artistes |
| Ethan Juan 阮经天 Zoe Tay 郑惠玉 Sam Tseng 曾国城 | Presented Top 10 Most Favourite Female Artistes |
[Star Awards 2010] nominations
The ceremony was nominated for "Best Set Design" and "Best Variety Special" on the ceremony next year, but lost to 3-Plus-1 and The Chinese Challenge Grand Finals, respectively.| Recipient | Award | Accolade | Representative work | Result |
| Mohd B Abdul Rahim | Star Awards 2010 红星大奖2010 亮闪八方 | Best Set Design 最佳综艺布景设计奖 | Star Awards 2009 红星大奖2009 庆功宴 | |
| Star Awards 2010 红星大奖2010 颁奖典礼 | Best Variety Special 最佳综艺特备节目 | Star Awards 2009 红星大奖2009 |