Star Awards 2018
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| Star Awards 2018 红星 | |
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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 |
| Television/radio coverage | |
| Network | Mediacorp Channel 8 Mediacorp Channel U Toggle |
| Runtime | 180 mins (Awards Ceremony) 30 mins (Post Party) |
Star Awards 2018 (also SA2018SG, Chinese: 红星
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
[edit]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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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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Special Awards
[edit]| Marcus Chin 陈建 |
^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
[edit]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 (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
[edit]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.[1]
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Bioskin Most Charismatic Artiste Award Bioskin
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Summary of shows with multiple nominations and wins
[edit]Most Nominations
[edit]Programs that received multiple nominations are listed below, by number of nominations per work:
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Most Wins
[edit]Programs that received multiple wins are listed below, by number of wins per work:
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Presenters and Performers
[edit]The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.
Presenters
[edit]| Name(s) | Role |
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| Lee Rongde |
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 |
Gave their opening monologue (in Hologram) |
| Dennis Chew Aden Chen 陈煊劼 |
Presenter for Young Talent Award |
| Prince Chiu Joanne Tseng 曾之 |
Presenter for Best Newcomer Award |
| Nathan Hartono |
Presenter for Best Theme Song |
| MediaCorp Group Chairman Niam Chiang Meng 严昌 |
Presenter for Best Evergreen Artiste |
| Christopher Lee Lin Mei-hsiu |
Presenter for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress |
| Mickey Huang LULU ( |
Presenter for Best Programme Hosts, Best Info-Ed Programme and Best Variety Programme |
| Simon Yam 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 |
Gave out award for Special Achievement Award |
| PwC Singapore associate |
Gave presenters Top 10 Most Popular Artistes winners' list |
| Guo Liang Quan Yi Fong 权怡凤 |
Presenter for Top 10 Most Popular Female Artists |
| Past year All-Time Favorite Artists recipients 历届 |
Gave out awards for Top 10 Most Popular Female Artists, in order:
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| Quan Yi Fong 权怡凤 Simon Yam |
Presenter for Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes |
^2 Pornsak was absent on the ceremony; Lee Teng
^3 Thomas Ong
Performers
[edit]| Name(s) | Performed |
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| Nathan Hartono |
Performer for the Nominations for the Best Theme Song award (in order):《 |
| Wanting Qu |
Performer of 《 |
Trivia
[edit]Changes 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
[edit]To 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
[edit]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 |
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| Star Awards 2019 (Creative Achievement) 红星 |
Best Variety Producer |
Khow Hwai Teng 邱慧婷 |
Star Awards 2018 红星 |
Won |
| Star Awards 2019 红星 |
Best Variety Special |
— | Nominated |
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.