Star Awards 2013
Star Awards 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. Star Awards 2013 was broadcast live on Channel 8, on 21 April 2013 and 28 April 2013. The first ceremony was held at the Mediacorp TV Theatre while the second ceremony was held at the Marina Bay Sands. The ceremonies were also broadcast on 8 International and the second ceremony on Astro AEC & Astro Quan Jia HD for the first time in HD.
20 programs won at least one award, the largest representation of programs with one awards tying the last year's ceremony's count. Best Drama Serial Pillow Talk won only one award, its lowest count of awards for a winning Drama Serial, while Unriddle 2 won the most awards for the ceremony with five. Joys of Life won three awards out of the largest count of nominations for the ceremony, all awarded from Show 1. Only two variety/info-ed programs won multiple awards, which were the third season's Find Me A Singaporean and the last year's Star Awards ceremony, the latter retaining the three-year winning streak for Best Variety Special.
This was the second ceremony since 2007 to not present the All-Time Favourite Artiste, in its place was the newly introduced Honorary TV Award. This is currently the last ceremony to date where awards for "Best News Presenter" and "Best Current Affairs Presenter" were presented, ending a tradition that began in 2000.
Show 1
The first show, titled "亮闪八方" was broadcast on 21 April 2013 at the Mediacorp Studios at Caldecott Hill.In place of the usual opener, artistes and nominated backstage personnel were directly ushered to their seats on Show 1, in view of a special tribute for late television icon Huang Wenyong, who died the previous day. A five-minute segment begins with host Lee Teng delivering his eulogy, then 30 seconds of silence was observed, and a video of his contributions was played. The show later opened after a commercial break at 7.08 pm.
Show 2
The second show was broadcast on 28 April 2013 at the Marina Bay Sands Grand Theatre.Special award
The Honorary TV award is introduced as a special achievement award given out posthumously to past artiste to honour contributions made to the local TV industry. The wife and daughter of Huang Wenyong represented the late television icon to receive the Honorary TV Award in recognition of his contributions to Singapore's television industry.| Huang Wenyong |
Top 10 awards
Similar to previous ceremonies, The Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes and Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes will be decided by telepoll and online voting; each carrying a 50% weightage towards the final result. The telepoll lines was announced and opened on 15 March 2013, and would run until 28 April at 8.30 pm. The temporary results are not publicized on TV but through the Toggle Now app, which users can download from the App Store or Google Play.The nominees are listed in telepoll line order. The results of the Top 10 awards are not in rank order.
| 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. |
2 Proceeds from the "Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes" calls for Huang Wenyong will be donated to HCA Hospice.
3 Xiang Yun represented Huang to collect the award.
Summary of nominations and awards (by programme genre)
Most nominations
Programs that received multiple nominations are listed below, by number of nominations per work:| Drama Series | Nominations |
| Joys of Life | 13 |
| It Takes Two | 12 |
| Don't Stop Believin' | 10 |
| Pillow Talk | 9 |
| Poetic Justice | 9 |
| Unriddle 2 | 9 |
| Show Hand 注定 | 5 |
| Game Plan | 4 |
| Jump! | 3 |
| Yours Fatefully | 3 |
| The Quarters | 2 |
| Variety/Info-ed | Nominations |
| Jobs Around the World 走遍天涯打工乐 | 5 |
| Food Source 3 食在好源头 | 4 |
| Focus 焦点 | 3 |
| Good Morning Singapore! 早安您好! | 3 |
| Star Awards 2012 | 3 |
| Battle @ Water Margin 我爱水浒转 | 2 |
| Bliss Seeker 另一片天空 | 2 |
| Channel 8 Countdown 2013 @ Vivocity 8频道跨年派对 | 2 |
| Find Me A Singaporean 3 稀游记3 | 2 |
| Frontline前线追踪 | 2 |
| Let's Talk 3 你在囧什么?! 3 | 2 |
| Lunar New Year's Eve Special 2012 金龙腾飞庆丰年 | 2 |
| Money Week 财经追击 | 2 |
| S.N.A.P. 熠熠星光总动员 | 2 |
| Star Reunion 那些年，我们一起看电视 | 2 |
| Street Smart 自由脚步 | 2 |
| Thye Hua Kwan Charity Show 2012 太和观 一心一德为善乐 | 2 |
| United Neighbours Society 邻里合作社 | 2 |
Most wins
| Drama Series | Wins |
| Unriddle 2 最火搭档2 | 5 |
| Don't Stop Believin' 我们等你 | 4 |
| Joys of Life 花样人间 | 3 |
| Game Plan 千方百计 | 1 |
| It Takes Two 对对碰 | 1 |
| Pillow Talk 再见单人床 | 1 |
| Poetic Justice 微笑正义 | 1 |
| Show Hand 注定 | 1 |
| Variety/Info-ed | Wins |
| Find Me A Singaporean 3 稀游记3 | 2 |
| Star Awards 2012 红星大奖2012 | 2 |
| Battle @ Water Margin 我爱水浒转 | 1 |
| Body SOS 小毛病 大问题 | 1 |
| Borders 边城故事 | 1 |
| Focus 焦点 | 1 |
| Food Source 3 食在好源头 | 1 |
| Frontline 前线追踪 | 1 |
| Jobs Around the World 走遍天涯打工乐 | 1 |
| Money Week 财经追击 | 1 |
| Share Something 我爱公开 | 1 |
| S.N.A.P. 熠熠星光总动员 | 1 |
Presenters and performers
The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.Ceremony information
The day before the first show, Huang Wenyong died of lymphoma, and a eulogy was presented before the show 1 began. The following ceremony a week after, after Huang was posthumously awarded the Honorary TV Award by acting cabinet minister Lawrence Wong, given as representation to his wife and daughter Wenwen, the show announced that any votes cast for Huang from the "Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes" calls will proceed donations to HCA Hospice. Prior to the announcement that Huang would win its second and the other Top 10 since 2011, several shouts of Huang could be heard as only one award was left to be given out. Representative Xiang Yun praised the viewers live and thanked them for voting, and mentioned that nominations for the Top 10 are not easy and are fiercely fought throughout each year; Xiang told that it was Huang's final award, and encouraged the viewers on appreciation to a certain character through love and esteem, which received a standing ovation. This was the only time where the award was presented to date; the award did not return in 2019, although there was a tribute to one artiste, Aloysius Pang, who died earlier on 23 January that year.The opening monologue by Young Artiste recipient Tan Jun Sheng and Jia Jia was also well praised by media, which brought several references in the current trends of 2013, including a cold open of Tan parodying Yam Ah Mee, then-returning officer at the time, and several celebrity gossips, including John Quek's announcer role. After Guo Liang and Quan Yifeng were introduced on stage, the hosts praised the artistes on their potential before the children return backstage; Guo even lampshade the awards being a "junior spin-off" and starting an official "adult version".
Consecutive nominees and awardees, firsts in Top 10
- The nominees for the "Best Current Affairs Presenter" award are the same throughout four consecutive years from 2010 to 2013. Two awardees received the award consecutively twice from 2012, and Chun Guek Lay was being awarded for the consecutive second time.
- *A rule revision in 2014 revised the criteria that the award will only be presented if a quota is fulfilled for that particular category; due to this change, three categories will be suspended in the following ceremony, namely "Best Newcomer", "Best News Presenter" and "Best Current Affairs Presenter".
- **Although the Channel 8 News & Current Affairs had at least ten presenters at the end of 2014, this year was currently the last time both the "Best News Presenter" and "Best Current Affairs Presenter" had been presented as of. However, "Best Newcomer" will be presented again in 2015, with the exception for 2016 and 2017.
- Rui En was awarded the Most Favourite Female Character award for the third consecutive year. En and Elvin Ng were, for their second consecutive year, awarded the Most Favourite Onscreen Couple award.
- Bryan Wong was awarded the Most Favourite Variety Show Host award for the second consecutive year.
- This was the first time Belinda Lee and Lee Teng were awarded the Top 10 Most Popular Female and Male Artistes award, respectively.
- *Dai Xiangyu received his second Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award since 2010.
- The second season of Unriddle become the sixth drama to receive multiple nominations for the Best Drama Serial.
Accolades
The 2013 ceremony won all three nominations, which were Best Set Design, Best Variety Research Writer and Best Variety Special, on the following ceremony next year; for the latter it was Star Awards fifth win for the Best Variety Special, and the fourth consecutive time on doing so.| Organisation | Year | Category | Nominee | Result | Ref |
| Star Awards | 2014 | Best Set Design 最佳综艺布景设计奖 | Ahyak Yahya | Won | |
| Star Awards | 2014 | Best Variety Research Writer | Lim Shiong Chiang 林雄强 | Won | |
| Star Awards | 2014 | Best Variety Special | Won |