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Star Awards 2018 (also SA2018SG, Chinese: 红星大奖2018) is a television award ceremony which is held in Singapore, with 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.
| Star Awards 2018 红星大奖2018 | |
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| Sponsored by | Poh Heng Jewellery MES Group (co-sponsors) Simmons Motorway Group (Official Car partner) Chan Brothers LG Electronics Vintage Studio KFC Singapore Dream Cruises Sony Music (SMEJ) |
| Date | Awards Ceremony & Post Party 22 April 2018 |
| Location | MES Theatre @ Mediacorp (Awards Ceremony) |
| Country | Singapore |
| Presented by | Bioskin |
| Hosted by | Guo Liang Quan Yi Fong |
| Highlights | |
| Most awards | Drama: When Duty Calls (5) Variety/Info-ed: Ah Ma Can Cook Little Maestros Unique Lodging (1 each) |
| Most nominations | Drama: When Duty Calls (8) Variety/Info-ed: Fixer Going Miles, Spreading Smiles (2 each) |
| Best Drama | When Duty Calls |
| Best Variety Show | Ah Ma Can Cook |
| Special Achievement Award | Marcus Chin |
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| Network | Mediacorp Channel 8 Mediacorp Channel U Toggle |
| Runtime | 180 mins (Awards Ceremony) 30 mins (Post Party) |
The ceremony saw When Duty Calls winning the most awards, 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
edit| Date | Shows | Time | Channels |
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| 22 April 2018 | Star Awards 2018– Awards Ceremony | 7.00 pm to 10.00 pm | Mediacorp Channel 8 (Singapore) Mediacorp Channel U (Singapore) Astro Xi Yue HD (Malaysia) Toggle |
| Star Awards 2018- Post Party | 10.30 pm to 11.00 pm | Mediacorp Channel 8 (Singapore) Mediacorp Channel U (Singapore) Toggle | |
| 29 April 2018 (Encore Telecast) |
Star Awards 2018– Awards Ceremony | 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm | Mediacorp Channel 8 (Singapore) |
| Star Awards 2018- Post Party | 6.00 pm to 6.30 pm |
Awards
editOn 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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Best Variety Research Writer
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Best Screenplay
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Best Variety Producer
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Best Director
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The award ceremony was shown live on 22 April 2018.
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.
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Young Talent Award
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Best Programme Host (Variety, Info-Ed & Infotainment)
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Special Awards
edit| Marcus Chin |
^1 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
editEvery 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 (not nominated the previous year) |
| 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. |
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Post Show Party 庆功宴
editThe 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.[1]
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Bioskin Most Charismatic Artiste Award Bioskin 魅力四射奖
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Summary of shows with multiple nominations and wins
editMost Nominations
editPrograms that received multiple nominations are listed below, by number of nominations per work:
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Most Wins
editPrograms that received multiple wins are listed below, by number of wins per work:
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Presenters and Performers
editThe following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.
Presenters
edit| Name(s) | Role |
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| Lee Rongde 李荣德 | Announcer for Star Awards 2018 |
| Top 40 Most Popular Artistes Nominees 十大最受欢迎男女艺人入围者 |
Cast entrance on stage (in order of appearance):
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| Past year All-Time Favorite Artists recipients 历届超级红星 |
Gave their opening monologue (in Hologram) |
| Dennis Chew 周崇庆 Aden Chen 陈煊劼 |
Presenter for Young Talent Award |
| Prince Chiu 王子 邱勝翊 Joanne Tseng 曾之喬 |
Presenter for Best Newcomer Award |
| Nathan Hartono 向洋 | Presenter for Best Theme Song |
| MediaCorp Group Chairman Niam Chiang Meng 严昌明 |
Presenter for Best Evergreen Artiste |
| Christopher Lee 李铭顺 Lin Mei-hsiu 林美秀 |
Presenter for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress |
| Mickey Huang 黄子佼 LULU (黄路梓茵) |
Presenter for Best Programme Hosts, Best Info-Ed Programme and Best Variety Programme |
| Simon Yam 任达华 Charmaine Sheh 佘诗曼 |
Presenter for Best Actor and Best Actress |
| MediaCorp Group CEO Tham Loke Kheng 谭乐琼 |
Gave out award for Best Drama Series |
| Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information & Health Chee Hong Tat 徐芳达 |
Gave out award for Special Achievement Award |
| PwC Singapore associate 林福春 |
Gave presenters Top 10 Most Popular Artistes winners' list |
| Guo Liang 郭亮 Quan Yi Fong 权怡凤 |
Presenter for Top 10 Most Popular Female Artists |
| Past year All-Time Favorite Artists recipients 历届超级红星 |
Gave out awards for Top 10 Most Popular Female Artists, in order:
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| Quan Yi Fong 权怡凤 Simon Yam 任达华 |
Presenter for Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes |
^2 Pornsak was absent on the ceremony; Lee Teng 李腾 represented Pornsak on his behalf.
^3 Thomas Ong 王沺裁 was absent on the ceremony; Chen Liping 陈莉萍 represented Ong on her behalf.
Performers
edit| Name(s) | Performed |
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| Nathan Hartono 向洋 | Performer for the Nominations for the Best Theme Song award (in order):《小人物向前冲》,《为梦想闪耀》,《初衷》,《是爱呀，哈利》,《以刚克刚》 |
| Wanting Qu 曲婉婷 | Performer of 《我的歌声里》 and "(They Long To Be) Close To You" |
Trivia
editChanges to awards categories
edit- The Best Newcomer returned for the first time after a two-year absence, with the last award presented in 2015.
- This year marked the first show a web series (Dear DJ) had garnered nominations (for Best Newcomer and Best Theme Song).
Consecutive nominees and recipients
edit- Chen Hanwei received his second Best Supporting Actor Award.
- Rebecca Lim received her second Best Actress Award.
- Quan Yi Fong won her fifth (and second consecutive) 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.
- All the nominations for the Best Drama Serial were nominated for the first time, ending a five-year streak where at least one nomination received a repeat nomination since the 2012 ceremony.
Firsts in top 10
edit- 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
edit- This ceremony was the third ceremony since 2004 (after 2007 and 2013) 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
editTo recognise the contributions to local television more broadly, this year's awards will open up nominations to non-Mediacorp artistes. In response, the Star Awards Committee revised the criteria after considering the constructive feedback of industry watchers and audiences. Acting categories were mostly revised, as reflected below:
- 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.
- For the Evergreen Artiste Award (an award which recognises contributions by industry veterans), artistes were now evaluated based on the performances for the entire year to promote versatility. Previously, this award is evaluated on a single program only.
Star Awards 2019 nominations
editThe 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 |
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| Star Awards 2019 (Creative Achievement) 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 |
Won |
| Star Awards 2019 红星大奖2019 |
Best Variety Special 最佳综艺特备节目 |
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References
edit- ^ Seah, May (24 April 2018). "SPOP Sing! mentors Nathan Hartono, Joanna Dong reveal what it takes to sing on the big stage". Channel NewsAsia. Mediacorp. Retrieved 5 June 2018.