Star Awards 2018
Star Awards 2018 is a television award ceremony which is held in Singapore. The Post Party and Ceremony Awards was broadcast live on 22 April 2018. A total of 15 awards were handed out during the ceremony, among which the Special Achievement Award, an award given out to a celebrity in recognition to meritorious contribution, returned after a 15-year absence, with the award last presented in 2003, in the place of All-Time Favourite Artiste, which was not presented this year, and the third ceremony overall, after 2007 and 2013.
The ceremony saw When Duty Calls winning the most awards, among which they were Best Theme Song, Best Director, Best Drama Serial, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress; The Lead was the second-biggest winning drama serial, clinching the two other major categories plus Young Talent award, for a total of three. Seven other programs won at least one award during the ceremony.
Programme details
Star Awards 2018 - Creative Achievement Awards 红星大奖 专业奖项颁奖礼
On 5 April 2018, the Creative Achievement Awards was held to recognise the achievements of Mediacorp's creative staff in the past year. It was held in Level 9 of MediaCorp Campus; the guest-of-honour, Tham Loke Kheng, CEO of MediaCorp, gave out the Awards to the recipients.Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.
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Star Awards 2018 Awards Ceremony 红星大奖2018 颁奖典礼
The award ceremony was shown live on 22 April 2018.Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.
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Special Awards
The Special Achievement Award is an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established since 1994. The Special Achievement Award returned after a 14 years hiatus, with the last award being 2003 where it was temporarily discontinued between 2004 and 2017 in place of the All-Time Favourite Artiste award.Top 10 Most Popular Artistes
Every year, a poll of 1,000 people representing a wide demographic across Singapore's population, were conducted independently by an accredited market research company, will be used to shortlist the nominations for the Top 20 Male and Female artistes, where they faced the public vote.This year, 50% of the final results will be derived from this pool of 1,000 people; while the other 50% will comprise telepoll and online voting as a measure of their fan support, to ensure that the representation of results for the Top 10 Most Popular Male and Female artistes were part of the continuous efforts by the Star Awards Committee.
The telepoll lines will be opened from 16 March 2018 and ends on 22 April 2018, 8:30pm.
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| Italic | New to list |
| Bold | Top 10 winners |
| n | Recipient's accumulated number of awards |
| 10 | Recipient won his/her tenth Top 10 award and would be awarded the "All-time Favourite Artiste" on the following year's ceremony. |
Post Show Party 庆功宴
The Post Show Party aired at 10.30pm, after the broadcast of News Tonight. During the Post Show, guests Joanna Dong and Nathan Hartono teased on an upcoming reality-competition that would promote local Chinese pop culture.
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Summary of shows with multiple nominations and wins
Most Nominations
Programs that received multiple nominations are listed below, by number of nominations per work:| Nominations | Drama |
| 8 | When Duty Calls 卫国先锋 |
| 6 | My Friends From Afar 知星人 |
| 5 | The Lead 第一主角 |
| 5 | Mightiest Mother-in-Law 最强岳母 |
| 4 | Have a Little Faith 相信我 |
| 4 | Home Truly 回家 |
| 4 | While We Are Young Z世代 |
| 2 | 118 II |
| 2 | Dear DJ 亲爱的九月 |
| 2 | Dream Coder 梦想程式 |
| 2 | Life Less Ordinary 小人物向前冲 |
| Nominations | Variety/Info-ed |
| 2 | Ah Ma Can Cook 阿嬷来做饭 |
| 2 | Fixer 线人 |
| 2 | Going Miles, Spreading Smiles 一人行，暖人心 |
| 1 | I Love You Mum Challenge - A Gift For Mum 大声说出我爱你——妈妈的礼物 |
| 1 | Little Maestros 小当家 |
| 1 | National Flavours 民族味 |
| 1 | Oh My Heroes 超人哪里找? |
| 1 | Take A Break! 说走就走~短假游 |
| 1 | The Love97.2 Breakfast Quartet 玉健煌崇 电视版 |
| 1 | Tuesday Report: #myconnectionsg 星期二特写：情牵新马 |
| 1 | Unique Lodging 不一样的旅店 |
| 1 | Voices 听我说 |
Most Wins
Programs that received multiple wins are listed below, by number of wins per work:| Wins | Drama |
| 5 | When Duty Calls 卫国先锋 |
| 3 | The Lead 第一主角 |
| 1 | Mightiest Mother-in-Law 最强岳母 |
| 1 | While We Are Young Z世代 |
| Wins | Variety/Info-ed |
| 1 | Ah Ma Can Cook 阿嬷来做饭 |
| 1 | Little Maestros 小当家 |
| 1 | Unique Lodging 不一样的旅店 |
Presenters and Performers
The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.Presenters
was absent on the ceremony; Lee Teng 李腾 represented Pornsak on his behalf.Thomas Ong 王沺裁 was absent on the ceremony; Chen Liping 陈莉萍 represented Ong on her behalf.
Performers
Trivia
Changes to awards categories
- The Best Newcomer returned for the first time after a two-year absence, with the last award presented in 2015.
Consecutive nominees and recipients
- Chen Hanwei received his second Best Supporting Actor Award.
- Rebecca Lim received her second Best Actress Award.
- Quan Yi Fong won her fifth Best Programme Host Award.
- Thomas Ong received Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award; Ong was absent during the ceremony while Chen Liping represented him on his behalf.
- Belinda Lee and Pan Lingling received her fifth Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes award since 2010 and 2000, respectively.
- Kym Ng received her first acting award this year.
- Guo Liang received his fifth Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award since 2010.
Firsts in top 10
- Jin Yinji and Sheila Sim both received their first Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes award; for the former, Jin was nominated for eight consecutive years before finally winning her first award; Jin was also the oldest winner to win the award.
Absence of awards
- This ceremony was the third ceremony since 2004 to not present the All-time Favourite Artiste award. The award would return again in 2019 due to Kym Ng winning her tenth Top 10 award.
- *The Special Achievement Award took its place, having returned for the first time since 2003, after 15 years of absence.
- Although the Channel 8 News & Current Affairs had at least ten news presenters by the end of 2018, the Best News Presenter and Best Current Affairs Presenter awards were neither presented for the fifth consecutive year.
- For unknown reasons, the Rocket award, which is given to the most improved Mediacorp artiste, was also not presented for the second consecutive year.
- The Best News Story, Best Current Affairs Story, and Best Variety Special were also not presented this year, all three of which were absent for the first time since 2000.
- *Consequently, the absence for Best Variety Special ended Star Awards 's 10-year streak of their nomination for the category, with the last time happened being 2005.
Revisions of Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility criteria for performance and popularity categories
Artistes have to play as a lead role in a drama or host in a variety or info-ed program, or as a supporting role/assistant host in at least three eligible programmes or at least 30 episodes out of all eligible programmes, whichever applicable.Judging criteria for the Evergreen Artiste Award
The Evergreen Artiste Award recognises contributions by industry veterans. Due to a revision of criteria, artistes were now evaluated based on the performances for the entire year, allowing them to be considered for their versatility over various roles.Miscellaneous
This year marked the first show a web series had garnered nominations.[Star Awards 2019] nominations
The 2018 main ceremony won the Best Variety Producer award, but lost the Best Variety Special to the finals of SPOP Sing!, on the ceremony next year.| Award | Accolade | Nominee | Representative work | Result |
| Star Awards 2019 红星大奖2019之专业奖项颁奖礼 | Best Variety Producer 最佳综艺编导 | Khow Hwai Teng 邱慧婷 | Star Awards 2018 红星大奖2018 | |
| Star Awards 2019 红星大奖2019 | Best Variety Special 最佳综艺特备节目 | Star Awards 2018 红星大奖2018 |