Star Awards 2019 (also SA25,

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: 红星大奖25) is a television award ceremony which is held in Singapore. Star Awards 2019 marks the 25th anniversary, or Silver Jubilee, of the Star Awards since it was first awarded in 1994, hence subtitled ''Star Awards 25''. The theme for the ceremony is "The Moment", highlighting the best moments of the local television industries alongside Singapore's 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》(lit. "Starlight"). Two dramas which received the top two highest nominations, ''Blessings 2'' (eight) and ''

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'' (six), 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. A short series, ''24 Milestones''《回顾红星25》 (lit. Recap of ''Star Awards 25''), was produced in commemoration to the celebration. 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.

Programme details

Winners and nominees

Creative Achievement Awards

On 28 March 2019, the Creative Achievement Awards was held at Level 9 of MediaCorp Campus to recognise the achievements of

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’s creative staff in the past year. The presentation were held outside the main Star Awards ceremony. The awards were hosted by Desmond Ng and

Quan Yi Fong Quan Yi Fong (born 1 March 1974) is a Taiwan-born Singaporean host and actress, who has since taken up Singaporean citizenship and given up her Taiwanese citizenship. Career Quan joined the SBC in 1992. In 1996, she was fired by TCS over a ...

and was presented on Channel 8's

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. Tham Loke Kheng, CEO of MediaCorp, gave out the Awards to the recipients. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.

Star Awards

The Nominees were announced on 8 February 2019. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.

Special Awards

The All-Time Favourite Artiste is a special achievement award given out to artiste(s) who have achieved a maximum of 10 popularity awards over 10 years.

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.

Multiple awards and nominations

Presenters and performers

Creative Achievement Awards Ceremony Presenters Lists of Presenters' names were announced on 3 April 2019. Performers

Ceremony

The show opens with a cold open containing references to nominations for Best Drama Serial starring

(first watching a video snippet from ''VIC''), who time-traveled back to 1918 (referencing ''Blessings 2'') and phone-calling three other characters (from ''

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'', ''You Can Be An Angel 3'' and ''

'', in order of appearance) before recalling how the main protagonist returning to her own time (by throwing a rock and sunk along with her) and arrived at the stage to begin the show. After the opening, Quan brought references from past ceremonies while asking celebrities (in order of appearance, 1994 (Hosts

Chen Shucheng Chen Shucheng (born Tan Soo Seng on 21 October 1949) is a Singaporean actor and television host. He is one of Mediacorp's few artistes still active from the " black and white TV" era. Career Acting Chen joined Mediacorp Mediacorp Pte. L ...

and Yvette Tsui, as well as

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and

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's dialogues), 2014 (Quan tripped while making her way to receive her award) and 2015 (

Jeanette Aw Jeanette Aw Ee-Ping (born 28 June 1979), also known as Ou Xuan, is a Singaporean actress, host, filmmaker, businesswoman and writer. Aw was named as one of the Seven Princesses of Mediacorp in 2006, after which she achieved wider success with ...

's fall before accepting her All-Time Favourite Artiste), followed by

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parodying the Love 97.2FM's theme tune while asking whether any celebrities can recall the 1994 theme tune). In the midst of the ceremony, several ''

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'' contestants and artistes performed a walk-in skit. Following the skit, it was revealed by Quan, one of the hosts in the then-recent tenth season, that the eleventh season of ''Star Search'' would return after a nine-year hiatus, with open auditions to commence on 4 and 12 May. The segment ends with a teaser featuring the first season winner

Zoe Tay Zoe Tay Hui Gek (born 10 January 1968) is a Singaporean actress and former model. She has been referred to as the "Queen of Caldecott Hill" and "Ah Jie". To date, Tay has received four Star Awards for Best Actress. Early life Tay is the s ...

Changes to award categories

The Best Short-form Drama Serial and Best Short-form Variety Programme were introduced this year to highlight short series (usually

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from Toggle) 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 award returned after it was not presented last year.

Tribute to Aloysius Pang

A segment was dedicated to

Aloysius Pang Aloysius Pang Wei Chong (24 August 1990 – 24 January 2019) was a Singaporean actor once managed under NoonTalk Media, best known for his involvement in multiple Mediacorp dramas. Pang died on 24 January 2019 at 1:45am NZDT (23 January 2019 ...

who died during military training earlier on 23 January. The Honorary TV Award, an award presented to artistes posthumously, was not awarded to Pang. Producer Elaine See later explained that the decision for the Honorary TV Award was not "intentional" and it was different from the circumstances from

Huang Wenyong Huang Wenyong (25 July 1952 – 20 April 2013) was a Malaysia-born Singaporean actor, host and teacher. Huang died at the Singapore General Hospital at around 5 pm (GMT+8) on 20 April 2013, at the age of 60 due to lymphoma. Early lif ...

, who had received nominations prior to his death.

Accolade

Star Awards 2019 won the Best Variety Special in the 2021 ceremony, making it the eighth win for the category.

References

External links

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