Star Awards 2009
Star Awards 2009 was a television award ceremony held in Singapore. It was part of the annual Star Awards organised by MediaCorp for its Chinese language division. The awards took place at 26 April 2009 starting at 7pm at MediaCorp Studios, followed by a post-show party airing on Channel U after the ceremony ended.
The nominations were announced on 24 February 2009, and the popularity awards later on 27 March. As like previous years, most technical category awards were presented outside the ceremony. The Best Info-Ed Programme Host award was introduced to recognise infotainment show hosts.
The nomination lists for the main categories were announced on 24 February 2009. Nominations for the popularity awards were announced on 27 March 2009. DueIn contrast of previous Star Awards ceremonies which were held at the end of the year, a change in the eligibility period for television season resulted in 2008 having no ceremonies, and this was the first award ceremony in Star Awards history to be held on the month of April and the format had remained for the future ceremonies since.
Due to a format change on having two shows in the following year, this was the last Star Awards ceremony, to present the Technical Awards outside the main show until Star Awards 2016, as well as hosting a single award ceremony until Star Awards 2017.
The year's Best Drama Serial, The Little Nyonya, became the biggest winner for the 2009 ceremony, winning an unprecedented record of nine awards out of 16 nominations, surpassing the former record holder in the 2003 ceremony's drama, Holland V, who previously had seven.
Nominees and winners
Unless otherwise stated, winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.Backstage achievement awards ceremony
As like preceding ceremonies, professional and technical awards were presented before the main ceremony via a clip montage due to time constraints. The lists of winners are only reflected in the table.Main ceremony
Winners and nominees:
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Popularity awards
All Time Favourite Artiste
This award is a special achievement award given out to artiste who have achieved a maximum of 10 popularity awards over 10 years.| Huang Bi Ren 黄碧仁 |
Top 10 awards
Winners and nominees:| Note | Description |
| Italic | New to list. |
| Bold | Awardees who made it to the Show 2 top 10. |
| Made it to top 10 in the week / Fall under the Top n category. | |
| n | How many of this awards the awardee got. |
| 10 | To be awarded the All-Time Favourite Artiste in the next Star Awards. |
Presenters
The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.| Artistes / Special guests | Presented / Performed |
| Acting Minister, Information, Communications and the Arts Lui Tuck Yew | Gave out award for Best Drama Serial |
| Chen Meifeng Jason Wang | Presented Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress |
| Chairman, MediaCorp Ho Kwon Ping | Presented Best Variety Special |
| CEO, MediaCorp Lucas Chow 周永强 | Presented Best Variety Programme |
| National University of Singapore Associate Professor Chin Kwee Nyat 陈桂月 | Presented Best News / Current Affairs Presenter |
| Chen Liping Chew Chor Meng | Presented Best Newcomer |
| Sam Tseng | Presented Best Info-Ed Show Host and Best Variety Programme Host |
| President of Singapore S.R. Nathan | Gave out award for All-Time Favourite Artiste |
| David Chiang Kathy Chow | Presented Best Actor and Best Actress |
| Ada Choi Xia Yu Myolie Wu | Presented Top 10 Most Favourite Male Artistes |
| Ethan Juan Zoe Tay Sam Tseng 曾国城 | Presented Top 10 Most Favourite Female Artistes |