Star Awards 2019
Star Awards 2019 is a television award ceremony which is held in Singapore. The Walk Of Fame and Ceremony Awards will broadcast live on 14 April 2019. This year, the Walk Of Fame will be followed by the Awards Ceremony.
Star Awards 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the Star Awards since it was first awarded in 1994, hence it was subtitled Star Awards 25. The theme for the ceremony is set to capture "The Moment", highlighting the best moments of the local television industries alongside Singapore's biggest talents and audiences as well. This is also the first award ceremony to feature a vocalized version of the Awards' theme tune, titled 《星光》.
Two dramas which received the top two highest nominations, Blessings 2 and A Million Dollar Dream, were tied with the most wins with three; Blessings 2 won the Best Drama Serial, Best Director and Young Talent Awards, while A Million Dollar Dream won three of four acting categories except Best Supporting Actress. No other drama or variety programs won multiple awards, as 12 programs won only one, five of which were from the drama category. This was also the first ceremony in Star Awards history both the Special Achievement and All-Time Favourite Artiste awards, an award replacing in-lieu of the former award, were presented on the same show.
This was the last ceremony since the revision of the eligibility period in 2008 to be held in April, as the following year's ceremony was postponed after April due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Programme details
红星大奖之专业奖项颁奖礼 Star Awards 2019 - Creative Achievement Awards
On March 28, 2019, 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. As like the previous ceremonies since 2016, these presentation were held outside the main ceremony; the guest-of-honour, CEO of MediaCorp Tham Loke Kheng, gave out the Awards to the recipients. The awards were hosted by Desmond Ng and Quan Yi Fong and was presented on Channel 8's Facebook page live.Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.
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Star Awards 2019 Awards Nominees 红星大奖2019 入围名单
The Nominees were announced on February 8, 2019. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.The show opens with a cold open containing references to nominations for Best Drama Serial starring Quan Yi Fong, who time-traveled back to 1918 and phone-calling three other characters before recalling how the main protagonist returning to her own time and arrived at the stage to begin the show. After the opening, Quan brought references from past ceremonies while asking celebrities, 2014 and 2015.
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Special Awards
The All-Time Favourite Artiste is a special achievement award given out to artiste who have achieved a maximum of 10 popularity awards over 10 years.| Kym Ng 鐘琴 | | 1998 | 1999 | 2006 | 2007 | 2012 | 2013 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| Chew Chor Meng 周初明 |
Top 10 Most Popular Artistes
Similar to last year's revision of format, a poll of 1,000 people representing a wide demographic across Singapore's population, conducted independently by an accredited market research company, will be used to identify the top 20 Male and Female artistes who will go on to the next round of public voting; this and the votes from telepoll and online voting as a measure of their fan support weighed 50% each.The nominations were announced on 7 March 2019; the telepoll voting opened shortly at 3.00pm, while the Online voting opens a day later at 12.00pm. Voting closed on 14 April 2019, at 8.30pm, during the ceremony.
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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. |
Multiple Nominations
Dramas & Programmes with multiple nominations
| Nominations | Drama/Short-Form Drama |
| 8 | Blessings 2 祖先保佑2 |
| 6 | A Million Dollar Dream 给我一百万 |
| 5 | You Can Be An Angel 3 你也可以是天使3 |
| 5 | Mind Matters 心。情 |
| 4 | Say Cheese 西瓜甜不甜 |
| 4 | VIC 维多利亚的模力 |
| 3 | Doppelganger 入侵者 |
| 2 | Eat Already? S4 吃饱没?4 |
| 2 | Dream Walker 梦行者 |
| 2 | Babies On Board 新生 |
| 2 | Fifty And Fabulous 五零高手 |
| 1 | Die Die Also Must Serve 战备好兄弟 |
| 1 | My Agent is a Hero 流氓经纪 |
| 1 | Doppelganger - The Prequel 入侵者前传 |
| 1 | Love Across the Causeway 对面的女孩 |
| 1 | Love At Cavenagh Bridge 加文纳桥的约定 |
| 1 | Till We Meet Again – Prequel 千年来说对不起之前传 |
| 1 | Reach for the Skies 不平凡的平凡 |
| 1 | 29th February 229明天见 |
| Nominations | Programme/Short-Form Programme/Variety Special |
| 3 | GeTai Challenge 2018 歌台星力量 兴旺发 |
| 2 | Fixer 2 线人2 |
| 2 | Dennis Uncovers 周公找茶 |
| 2 | Away With My BFF 老友出走记 |
| 2 | Taste of Love 两代美味关系 |
| 2 | SPOP SING! - Grand Final SPOP听我唱！- 大决赛 |
| 2 | Star Awards 2018 红星大奖 2018 |
| 1 | Hear Me Out 4 有话要说 4 |
| 1 | Thrift Hunters 我赚到了! |
| 1 | Demystifying TV 戏，不是这样拍的! |
| 1 | Odd-upation 奇异特工 |
| 1 | Workman Diaries 我的打拚日记 |
| 1 | Taste of Nanyang 翻乡找味 |
| 1 | By Your Side 谢谢你不离不弃 |
| 1 | Forgotten Youths 边缘青年 |
| 1 | Home Dining 开门见餐 |
| 1 | Tuesday Report - #myconnectionsg2 情牵新马2 |
| 1 | Tuesday Report - When The Bell Rings 2 钟声响起2 |
| 1 | Community Chest Charity TV Show 2018 公益关爱相助35年 |
| 1 | Lunar New Year's Eve Special 2018 阿狗狗旺旺过好年 |
Dramas & Programmes with multiple awards
| Wins | Drama/Short-Form Drama |
| 3 | A Million Dollar Dream 给我一百万 |
| 3 | Blessings 2 祖先保佑2 |
| 1 | Doppelganger 入侵者 |
| 1 | Fifty and Fabulous 五零高手 |
| 1 | Love At Cavenagh Bridge 加文纳桥的约定 |
| 1 | You Can Be An Angel 3 你也可以是天使3 |
| 1 | 29th February 229明天见 |
| Wins | Programme/Short-Form Programme/Variety Special |
| 1 | Business As Usual 买卖 |
| 1 | Fixer 2 线人2 |
| 1 | GeTai Challenge 2018 歌台星力量 兴旺发 |
| 1 | SPOP SING! SPOP听我唱！ |
| 1 | Star Awards 2018 红星大奖2018 |
| 1 | Taste of Love 两代美味关系 |
| 1 | Workman Diaries 我的打拚日记 |
Presenters & Performers
Creative Achievement Awards Ceremony (Backstage)
Presenters
Lists of Presenters' names were announced on 3 April 2019.| Name | Role |
| Lucy Chow 周如珠 | Announcer for Star Awards 2019 |
| Quan Yi Fong 权怡凤 | Gave A Opening Monologue of Star Awards 2019 |
| Past recipients of Young Talent awards : Li Xian Min 李咸愍 Jason Liang 梁世杰 Kyle Chan 陈星余 Regene Lim 林詠谊 Tan Jun Sheng 陈俊生 Lyn Oh Ling En 胡菱恩 Damien Teo 张值豪 Isabel Yamada 山田熙 Toh Xin Hui 杜芯慧 | Presenters of the award for Young Talent Award |
| Lan Cheng Long 蓝正龙 Elvin Ng 黄俊雄 | Presenter of the awards for Best Short-form Drama Serial and Best Short-form Variety Programme |
| Joyce Cheng 郑欣宜 Kaiser Chuang 庄凯勋 | Presenter of the award for Best Newcomer |
| Roger Kwok 郭晋安 | Presenter of the award for Best Evergreen Artiste |
| Tony Sun 孙协志 Kym Ng 鐘琴 | Presenter of the award for Best Info-ed Programme and Best Variety Programme |
Star Search alumni :
| Special Star Search Segment Quan Yi Fong teased/promoted Star Search 2019 |
| Bowie Tsang 曾宝仪 | Presenter of the award for Best Variety Special and Best Programme Host |
| Eric Chou 周兴哲 | Presenter of the award for Best Theme Song |
| Mediacorp CEO Tham Loke Kheng 谭乐琼 | Gave out the award for All-time favourite artiste |
| Fann Wong 范文芳 Roger Kwok 郭晋安 | Presenter of the award for Best Support Actor and Best Supporting Actress |
| Chen Hanwei 陈汉玮 Zoe Tay 郑惠玉 | Presenter of the award for Best Drama Serial |
| Minister of Education Ong Ye Kung 王乙康 | Gave out the award for Special Achievement Award |
| Jerry Yan 言承旭 Wu Jinyan 吴谨言 | Presenter of the award for Best Actor and Best Actress |
| Cecilia Cheung 张柏芝 Quan Yi Fong 权怡凤 | Presenter of the award for Top 10 Most Popular Female and Male Artistes |
Performers
Award Trivia
Award Information
- As part of the Star Awardss Silver Jubilee' celebrations, this is the first Star Awards ceremony to feature vocals for the ceremony's main theme tune: 《星光》. The song was composed by Jim Lim and originally sung by the SPOP Sing! finalists Daryl-Ann Jansen, Jarrell Ng, Marcus Tay and Karena Yeo. The song was first showcased during the Creative Achievement Awards on March 28. A rendition would later be performed again during the ceremony which would be sung by artistes Zoe Tay, Chen Hanwei, Rebecca Lim and Desmond Tan, and again by the aforementioned singers during the closing.
- *It was the first ceremony to feature a female announcer.
- *It was also the first ceremony to be live-streamed on Channel 8's YouTube channel.
- Another short series in commemoration to the celebration was 24 Milestones《回顾红星25》 - A one-minute long highlight snippet was uploaded daily at midnight on Toggle featuring the best moments of Star Awards starting from the debut year of 1994, from 20 March onwards, beginning a 24-day countdown towards the ceremony.
Consecutive and records in award categories, first in Top 10
- Chen Xiuhuan and Lina Ng won their second Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes since 1994 and 1996, in a gap of 24 and 22 ceremonies, respectively.
- *Chen also hold the record of having the longest gap between her two nominations for the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes, with 24 ceremonies.
- Chen Shucheng, Hong Huifang and Zhu Houren won their first Top 10 Most Popular Artiste after 19, 13 and 15 nominations, respectively.
- Quan Yi Fong won her third consecutive Best Programme Host. Inclusive of Best Variety and Info-ed host awards, Quan broke her record on her highest number of hosting wins with six.
- *Quan also announced on her acceptance speech that the third season of Fixer was on production at the time during the ceremony.
- Chen Hanwei and Zoe Tay won their Best Actor and Best Actress awards respectively together for the second time after since 2017.
- *Chen also broke his record on his highest number of Best Actor wins with six, while Tay was tied with Huang Biren, Ivy Lee and Chen Liping with the most number of Best Actress wins with three.
- *Chen revealed on his acceptance speech that A Million Dollar Dream, the drama he played for, was the top-rated drama serial of 2018.
- GeTai Challenge became the fourth variety program to win its second Best Variety Programme award, after City Beat, The Joy Truck and Say It If You Dare.
- Kelvin Tan broke his record as the artist with the highest number of Best Theme Song wins with four.
Changes to award categories
- The Best Short-form Drama Serial and Best Short-form Variety Programme were introduced this year to highlight short series that have two or more episodes with a total running time of at least 150 minutes, and the series must tell a complete, non-recurring story, and not have an ongoing storyline or main characters from the actual series.
- The Best Variety Special and All-time Favourite Artiste returned after the categories were not presented last year.
Absence of award categories
- This ceremony was the sixth consecutive ceremony both the Best News Presenter and Best Current Affairs Presenter are not presented, although 8World already had more than ten news presenters as of 2019. Other news-related awards, namely Best News Story and Best Current Affairs Story, were not presented for the second consecutive ceremony.
- Although there was a segment in tribute to Aloysius Pang, who died earlier on 23 January this year, the Honorary TV Award, an award presented to artistes posthumously, was not presented for unknown reasons. Similarly, Rocket Award was also not presented for the third consecutive ceremony. Producer Elaine See later explained that the decision on not returning the Honorary TV Award was not "intentional" and it was different from the circumstances from Huang Wenyong, who he received nominations prior to his passing.