Star Awards 2021

Star Awards 2021 is a television award ceremony that was held in Singapore on 18 April 2021. The ceremony honoured the best Singaporean television released between January 2019 and December 2020. The ceremony was originally scheduled for April 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mediacorp announced that the ceremony would be postponed for a year until 2021.
Period drama A Quest to Heal won five awards including Best Drama Serial, Best Lead and Supporting Actors, Best Theme Song, and Best Director, the last of which was awarded in an unaired Backstage Achievement Award. Other winners include Zoe Tay of My Guardian Angels and Kym Ng of Daybreak, who won Best Lead and Supporting Actresses respectively, the former breaking a winning record of four wins. The drama with the most nominations, A Jungle Survivor, won only one award, with Zhang Ze Tong clinching the Best Newcomer. In the Variety category, Star Awards reclaimed a record-breaking eighth win for a Variety Special while Hear U Out became the biggest winner for a variety program with two.
In popularity awards, Dasmond Koh was named the year's All-Time Favourite Artiste. Dennis Chew and Zheng Geping won their tenth Top 10 Most Favourite Artiste, while Marcus Chin, Hong Ling and Bonnie Loo won their first Top 10.
The ceremony also drew several controversies, notably on the results for the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes after Felicia Chin fell short on winning her tenth award, as well as social distancing measures leading to Mediacorp clarifying about the measures taken.

Programme details

Nominees and winners

Awards

The nominees were announced on 4 February 2021. Winners are listed first, followed by boldface.

A Quest to Heal *A Jungle Survivor *All Is Well-Singapore *C.L.I.F. 5 *Day Break *Hello From the Other Side *My One In A Million	The Breakfast Quartet * Little City, Big Matters * Morning Fanatics * Mr Zhou's Ghosts Stories * The Night Is Young Yeah!
From Beijing to Moscow * A World of Difference * Best Friends Forever * Hello From The Other Side – It's Time * Interns' Survivors Guide * Tiles War * Walk With Me – Stories of Us	Hear U Out * Ah Boy To Dad * Friend or Foe? * Prank It * Pressing Issues * Thumbs Up! Senior – Takeover * What's for Lunch? – Lunch Talk
*King of Culinary* * Ah Gong Can Cook**** * Beyond The Cameras * Hawker Academy * House Everything? * The Destined One * Yi Fong & Elanor's Kitchen	Fixer S3 * A Medical Journey * Be My Guest S2 * Forbidding No More * Tuesday Report: A Hill and A River * Tuesday Report: Home Away From Home * Tuesday Report: One Metre Apart
Star Awards 2019 * LNY Eve Special 2020 * Sian Chay Bonding With Love Charity Show 2019 * SPD CHarity Show 2019 * Star Search 2019 – Grand Final	*Jones Shi and Ling Kai – A Quest to Heal* 《乱》** * Nicky Lee – All Is Well-Singapore 《人间失格》 * Misi Ke – Beijing To Moscow 《失去什么》 * The Freshmen – Best Friends Forever 《好爱你lah》 * Bonnie Loo – Heart To Heart 《幸福茶点》 * Boon Hui Lu – Loving You 《同行》 * Jarrell Huang and JJ Neo – My One In A Million 《就是你，就是你》
*Qi Yuwu – A Quest to Heal* as Bi Zheng** Chen Han Wei – Super Dad* as Chen Kai Elvin Ng – All Is Well Taiwan* as Eric Loke Pierre Png – A Jungle Survivor* as Jiang Yongxi Desmond Tan – All Is Well Singaporeas Wu Pinrui Romeo Tan – Happy Prince as Wang Zile Zhang Yao Dong – Day Break* as Zheng Weilong	*Zoe Tay – My Guardian Angels* as Mandy See** Chen Liping – How Are You?* as Dai Anna Felicia Chin – A Jungle Survivor* as Olivia Rebecca Lim – A Jungle Survivor* as Tang Ruo Qi Kym Ng – My Guardian Angels* as Wu Miao Miao Rui En – Hello From The Other Side* as Ma Ruyin Carrie Wong – A Quest to Heal* as Luo Mingyi
*Bryan Wong – A Quest to Heal* as Sun Xi** Brandon Wong – Hello From The Other Side* as Lao Ma Chen Shu Cheng – Old Is Gold* as Zhou Renfa Darren Lim – While You Were Away* as Yu Guanming Guo Liang – A Jungle Survivor* as Titan Ian Fang – All Is Well Singapore* as Li Hao James Seah – C.L.I.F. 5* as Lu Jiahao	*Kym Ng - Day Break* as Zhang Tianqing** * Aileen Tan – Hello Miss Driver as Zheng Xueqin * Bonnie Loo - C.L.I.F. 5 as Lu Kexin * Chantalle Ng – Terror Within as Lin Xiaoyu * Cynthia Koh – After The Stars as Zhen Mei * Lin Mei Jiao - After The Stars as Zhang Lan * Lina Ng - Terror Within as Lin Xiuhong
*Zhang Zetong - A Jungle Survivor* as Zhong Jianting** Benjamin Tan – My Guardian Angels* as Tang Guiqiang Herman Keh – Interns' Survivor Guide* as Focus Juin Teh – Interns' Survivor Guide* as Juliet Ke Le – Ah Gong Can Cook* Seow Sin Nee - Hawker Academy* Sheryl Ang - All Around You* as He Ruohua	*Goh Wee An – C.L.I.F. 5* as Xiao Huiwen** * Alfred Ong - Terror Within as Zeng Yang Yang * Audrey Gabrielle Soh - Super Dad as Chole * Ethan Ng Kai En – Happy Prince as Young Zile * Ivan Lo – How Are You? as Dai Zhengxiong * Natalie Mae Tan U-En – My Guardian Angels as Aelyn Xie Ning * Nicholas Lim Tao Rui - All Is Well Singapore as Xiao Ji
Jin Yinji Chen Shu Cheng Marcus Chin Richard Low Wang Yuqing Xiang Yun Zhu Hou Ren	Quan Yi Fong – Hear U Out * Cavin Soh – King of Culinary * Chen Han Wei – House Everything? * Guo Liang – The Destined One * Kym Ng – Ah Gong Can Cook * Quan Yi Fong – Yi Fong and Eleanor's Kitchen * Tung Soo Hua – Be My Guest S2

Drama series with multiple awards and nominations

The following Series received two or more awards and nominations:

Programmes with multiple awards and nominations

The following Programmes received two or more awards and nominations:

Sponsored awards

Bioskin Most Charismatic Artiste Award, alongside Best Theme Song and Best Radio Programme, are awards eligible via online voting. Voting began on 10 March and ended on 9 April at 11.59pm.
The Best Radio Programme was introduced in this year Star Awards to honor the best in local radio
The results are announced on the Walk-of-fame.

Romeo Tan
*Desmond Tan
*Ian Fang
*Pierre Png
*Qi Yuwu

Special awards

Top 10 Most Popular Artists

The top 10 nominations were announced on 9 March 2021 with several changes, with 60 artistes compete via a popular vote for the Top 10; for the first time in Star Awards history, there will be no televoting.
50% of the votes are determined by online voting, while the other 50% are based on the initial polling results of 1,000 people representing a wide demographic across Singapore's population, conducted independently by an accredited market research company.
With the combination of both years of ceremonies, 2020 and 2021, scores for both years for eligible artistes will be averaged by two; if the artiste is only eligible on either 2020 or 2021, only the scores that are tabulated on the eligible year is counted; artistes who are eligible in 2020 will only have their scores in 2020 tabulated; the reverse is true for artistes eligible only in 2021.
Voting began on 10 March, 12:00pm and ended on 18 April, 8:00pm, during the ceremony. Additionally, each user was limited to one vote per day, but the restriction was lifted to allow unlimited voting during the final three hours of voting.

Italic	New to list
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.

Ceremony information

The Star Awards 2021 centralized the theme of Connect, symbolizing the role media companies and other industry partners played in engaging television audiences during the previous year's COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore.