Star Awards 2012 (

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award ceremony held in

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. It is part of the annual

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organised by

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for the two free-to-air channels,

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and MediaCorp Channel U. ''Star Awards 2012'' was live broadcast on Channel 8, on 22 and 29 April 2012, and the Post-Show party on Channel U after the broadcast of the second award ceremony. Similar to the preceding ceremonies since 2010, the ceremony was split into two separate shows. The first show, titled 光辉大赏 (lit. Glorious Showcase), which focused on Professional and technical awards (which was given out to backstage crew and scriptwriters) as well as showcasing various drama skits to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of Chinese Drama Serials. The second show, titled 颁奖礼 (lit. Award Showcase), was held at the Grand Ballroom in

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, which focused on main category awards honoring the television series of 2011-12.#starawards 红星大奖 2012 – Nominate the nominees!
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, Lee Teng and

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, while the second show were hosted by Guo Liang and Taiwanese singer-actress Bowie Tsang. ''

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'' for having the most nominations with 12, were tied with the most wins for the ceremony with three for all three series; ''A Tale of 2 Cities'' won Favourite Female Character Award on Show 1, and Best Actress and Best Newcomer on Show 2; ''Love Thy Neighbour'' won Young Talent and Top Rated Drama Programme awards in Show 1 and Best Supporting Actress in Show 2; the remake won Best Screenplay and Best Drama Editing on Show 1, and Best Drama Serial on Show 2, marking the first television

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to win the award. 20 programs winning at least one award (10 dramas, 10 variety/info-ed) was the largest representation for the number of winning programs in ''Star Awards'' history.

Programme details

Winners and nominees

Unless otherwise stated, the winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.

Show 1 (红星大奖2012 光辉大赏)

Main awards

Awards eligible for voting

Online voting for the following four awards ended on 22 April at 8.30pm, while the awards ceremony was being held.

Other awards

=Rocket Award

=Viewership awards

Show 2 (红星大奖2012 颁奖礼)

Main awards

All Time Favourite Artiste

This award is a special achievement award given out to a veteran artiste(s) who have achieved a maximum of 10 popularity awards over 10 years. The award will not be presented in 2013, as there are no recipients with ten Top 10 Most Popular Male or Female Artistes award wins to allow the award to be presented that year.

Top 10 awards

The Top 10 Most Popular Male Artists and Top 10 Most Popular Female Artists was decided by a public vote. In a first in ''Star Awards'' history, the online voting was introduced and in addition to the traditional telepoll voting, both voting methods now accounted to a 50% weightage towards the overall final result. The voting line closed on 29 April at 9pm while the Show 2 was broadcast.

Presenters and performers

The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Show 1

Show 2

Summary of nominations and awards (by programme genre)

Most nominations

Programs that received multiple nominations are listed below, by number of nominations per work:

Most wins

Star Awards 2012 – Blazing The Trail

''Star Awards 2012 - Blazing The Trail'' was a four 15-minute episode series premiered on 25 March 2012 from 10:30pm every Sundays. The series provided details of the award nominees of ''Star Awards 2012'', leading up to the ceremony airing on 22 April.

Trivia

Consecutive nominees and awardees, firsts in Top 10

*The nominees for the "Best Current Affairs Presenter" award are the same throughout three consecutive years since 2010; while the nominees for the "Best News Presenter" award are the same from last year. Each award was received by two awardees this year. * Mark Lee received the Best Variety Show Host award after not winning one in 2011. *The public voting awards for drama categories, Most Favourite Female Character and Most Favourite Male Character, were respectively won by

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and

Elvin Ng Elvin Ng Choon Siong (born December 23, 1980) is a Singaporean actor and former model. Early life Ng attended Jurong Primary School, Catholic High School and National Junior College. He graduated with an honours degree in English literatu ...

for the second straight year. **Additionally, both aforementioned artistes went on to win the Most Favourite Onscreen Couple award. **The latter, Ng, won his second consecutive Systema Charming Smile Award. *

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Ben Yeo Ben Yeo Chi Lung (born 23 September 1978) is a Singaporean television host, actor and businessman. Career A former model, Yeo was first scouted on ''Snap'', SPH MediaWorks Channel U's talent show. He won the competition and was signed by S ...

Rebecca Lim Rebecca Lim Hui Ling (born 26 September 1986) is a Singaporean actress and host. Lim has won Best Actress in a Leading Role at the Asian Television Awards and two Best Actress in a Leading Role awards, a Best Supporting Actress award. Lim als ...

and

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won the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes award for the first time, while

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not being nominated for the award for the first time. **

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's second Top 10 win ended a drought of not winning a Top 10, with the last win happened in 1997.

Addition and changes of awards categories

*This year's Star Awards reintroduced the "Best Newcomer" award, which was last presented in 2009. *The "Most Favourite Variety Onscreen Partner" was changed to "Most Favourite Variety Show Host", which reduced the number of nominees by half, this year.

30th drama anniversary

*As part of the

's anniversary special celebrating 30 years of Chinese language drama in Singapore, past SBC/ TCS/MediaCorp stars such as

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, Yang Libing,

Moses Lim Moses Lim Aik Ming ( zh, s=林益民, p=Lín Yìmín; 12 December 1949 – 11 February 2025) was a Singaporean actor, television host, comedian, and food critic, best known for playing Tan Ah Teck in the Singaporean sitcom '' Under One Roof'' (1 ...

Jack Neo Jack Neo Chee Keong (born 24 January 1960) is a Singaporean filmmaker, comedian and actor who was a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 1983 to 2003. He established a unique presence with his genuine and relatable stories that highlight societa ...

Jacelyn Tay Jacelyn Tay Siew Cheng (born 12 June 1975) is a Singaporean health coach, businesswoman and former actress. During the 2000s, Tay established herself. She won the Star Awards for Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes seven times, and was nom ...

Vincent Ng Vincent Ng Cheng Hye (born 6 December 1975) is a Singaporean actor, martial artist and businessman. He was a full-time Mediacorp actor from 1997 to 2007, and is best known for acting in the Chinese-language television series produced by Medi ...

Sharon Au Sharon Au (; born 13 August 1975) is a Singaporean former actress and host. Having joined the TCS during the mid-1990s, she won many awards as an artiste with MediaCorp before taking a sabbatical to pursue university education in 2005 on a sc ...

and

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were invited as special guests and awards presenters.

Other trivia

*Footage of

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winning the Best Actor and Favourite Host respectively were seen in a skit in ''

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'' Show 1. *Footage of

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winning the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes was seen in a skit in ''

'' Show 1, except that he jumped for a total of four times in the footage instead of two.

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nominations

The first show of 2012 won both the Best Variety Research Writer and Best Variety Special on the following ceremony next year; for the latter it was ''Star Awards'' fourth win for the Best Variety Special, and the third consecutive time on doing so.

References

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Programme details

Winners and nominees

Show 1 (红星大奖2012 光辉大赏)

Main awards

Awards eligible for voting

Other awards

=Rocket Award

=Viewership awards

Show 2 (红星大奖2012 颁奖礼)

Main awards

All Time Favourite Artiste

Top 10 awards

Presenters and performers

Show 1

Show 2

Summary of nominations and awards (by programme genre)

Most nominations

Most wins

Star Awards 2012 – Blazing The Trail

Trivia

Consecutive nominees and awardees, firsts in Top 10

Addition and changes of awards categories

30th drama anniversary

Other trivia

Star Awards 2013 Star Awards 2013 ( Chinese: 红星大奖 2013) was a double television award ceremony held in Singapore. It is part of the annual Star Awards organised by Mediacorp for the two free-to-air channels, Mediacorp Channel 8 and Mediacorp Channel U. S ... nominations

See also

References

Star Awards 2013 Star Awards 2013 ( Chinese: 红星大奖 2013) was a double television award ceremony held in Singapore. It is part of the annual Star Awards organised by Mediacorp for the two free-to-air channels, Mediacorp Channel 8 and Mediacorp Channel U. S ...
nominations