Star Awards 2015


Star Awards 2015 is a double television award ceremony which is held in Singapore. It is part of the annual Star Awards organised by Mediacorp for free-to-air channel Mediacorp Channel 8. SA2015 is broadcast live on Channel 8, on 19 April 2015 and 26 April 2015. This was the final ceremony to be held at Caldecott Hill before the campus was relocated to one-north at Stars Avenue in the subsequent year, henceforth the subtitles for the ceremony name itself.
The ceremony saw the second season of The Joy Truck and The Journey trilogy, Tumultuous Times, became the biggest winning variety and drama series respectively. In voting categories, Qi Yuwu and Rui En won their tenth Top 10 awards while Jeanette Aw won an unprecedented seven awards during the ceremony, the most for any artiste, including the All-time Favourite Artiste together with Vivian Lai.

Programme details

Nominees and winners

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

Show 1

The first show, titled "加利谷闪耀星光", was broadcast on 19 April 2015.

Professionally Judged Awards

Lim was absent during the ceremony due to illness; Kang Lay See represented the award on his behalf.

Awards eligible for voting

Most Popular Regional Artiste award

The award is based on online voting done in the 4 territories; Indonesia, China, Malaysia and Cambodia.
Chinaref|2|2Award category|#273A59|

Special awards

Viewership awards

Show 2

The second show, titled "加利谷颁奖典礼", was broadcast on 26 April 2015.

Professionally judged 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. Top 10 winning years the recipients were awarded together are highlighted in boldface.
Vivian Lai
Jeanette Aw

Awards eligible for voting

Top 10 awards

Since the 2012 awards, results for the Top 10 Most Popular Male and Female Artistes were determined by telepoll and online voting, each carrying a 50% weightage towards the final results. The telepoll lines were announced, and opened on 9 March 2015 in its first public event held at VivoCity. The voting closed on 26 April at 8:30 pm, during the second award ceremony.
The nominees are listed in telepoll line order. The results of the Top 10 awards are not in any rank order.
NoteDescription
ItalicNew to list.
BoldAwardees who made it to the Show 2 top 10.
Made it to top 10 in the week / Fall under the Top n category.
nHow many of this awards the awardee got.
10To be awarded the All-Time Favourite Artiste in the next Star Awards.

Post show party awards

Statistics

Shows are ordered based on number of nominations, release date and type order.
Drama series nominations:
NominationsDrama series
17The Journey: Tumultuous Times
14Against The Tide
13World at Your Feet
10C.L.I.F. 3
9Blessings
6Yes We Can!
我们一定行!
5Three Wishes
4The Caregivers
3In The Name of Love

Drama series awards:
AwardsDrama series
7The Journey: Tumultuous Times
信约:动荡的年代
3Against The Tide
逆潮
2Yes We Can
我们一定行!
2World at Your Feet
球在你脚下
1C.L.I.F. 3
警徽天职3
1Blessings
祖先保佑
1Three Wishes
三个愿望

Variety / info-ed series nominations:
NominationsVariety / info-ed series
4Star Awards 20
红星大奖20
4Finding 8
先锋争8战
3Lunar New Year's Eve Special 2014
骏马奔腾喜迎春
3Food Source IV
食在好源头 IV
3Neighbourhood Chef
邻里厨王
3The Joy Truck II
快乐速递 II
2ComChest Care & Share Charity Show 2014
爱分享 分享爱
2Project SuperStar 2014
绝对SuperStar 2014
2Where To Stay
到底住哪里?
2Hear Me Out
有话要说
1Cheap and Good
便宜有好货
1Black Rose 2
爆料黑玫瑰2
1Say It! 好好说 慢慢讲! 2
1A Taste of History
寻味地图
1My HeARTland Carnival
邻邻艺计划
1Meet My Family 2
人气满屋2
1Shop Stories
有故事的店
1Job X-Change
职业交换生
1Tuesday Report
星期二特写

Variety / info-ed / current affairs series awards:
AwardsVariety / info-ed / current affairs series
3The Joy Truck II
快乐速递 II
1Lunar New Year's Eve Special 2014
骏马奔腾喜迎春
1Cheap and Good
便宜有好货
1Finding 8
先锋争8战
1Star Awards 20
红星大奖20
1Where To Stay
到底住哪里?
1Tuesday Report
星期二特写
1Focus
焦点

Current affairs series nominations:
NominationsCurrent affairs series
2Focus
焦点
2Frontline
前线追踪
1Money Week
财经追击
1Morning Express
晨光第一线
1Hello Singapore
狮城有约

Presenters and performers

The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Show 1

Show 2

Ceremony information

Award Information

For the first time since 2009, Mediacorp opt out a location for their second show, with both shows to be held inside the Mediacorp studios, as 2015 will mark its final year to be held at the former location of Caldecott Hill prior to the relocation of its campus at Mediapolis@one-north. The 2015 ceremony was also the last time where the first show presented Professional and Technical Awards during Show 1, and the last ceremony to feature long-time announcer John Kuek due to his retirement.
While the minimum quota requirement was raised to 10 last year in order for a professional and programme award category to be presented, three awards were not presented last year due to the changes, those being Best Current Affairs Presenter, Best News Presenter and Best Newcomer; of the three, only Best Newcomer returned while the other two did not, despite Channel 8 News & Current Affairs already had ten news presenters by the end of 2014; as of, neither awards had been presented since 2013. The reason for this is unknown.
Jeanette Aw was the most trending celebrity in online social media as she won seven awards throughout the entire ceremony. In the backstage after Show 1, Aw announced that she would want to withdraw from voting-based award categories in the future, citing competition issues by her supporters; however, Mediacorp rejected her request due to the nominations being determined by online as she was renominated for them in the following year, but eventually led to a rework of all the voting categories by 2017. A viral video surfaced during Show 2 when Aw accidentally tripped on the stairway during the presentation for All-Time Favourite Artistes but quickly recovered with minor injuries. She even lampshade the fall by telling the viewers to rise again after, during her acceptance speech.

Consecutive and records in award categories, first in Top 10

  • The Joy Truck became the third variety program to win its second Best Variety Programme award, after City Beat and Say It If You Dare.
  • Rui En became the seventh All-Time Favourite Artiste to win the award with ten consecutive Top 10 Female Favourite Artiste wins. Rui En, along with Qi Yuwu, were conferred the said award in the following year's ceremony.
  • *The previous recipients to do so were Fann Wong and Xie Shaoguang, both occurring in the 2005 ceremony.
  • Jeanette Aw set a record on winning the most awards for an individual at seven, among which were Most Popular Regional Artiste Awards, Social Media Award, Favourite Female Character, Favourite Onscreen Couple and All-Time Favourite Artiste.
  • Carrie Wong, Jayley Woo, Shane Pow and Youyi) were nominated for the Top 10 voting category for the first time.
  • *Pow and Wong, along with Shaun Chen, Ian Fang and Julie Tan, won their first Top 10 Favourite Artiste award.
  • The last time Felicia Chin nominated for the Top 10 Most Favourite Female Artiste was 2010; she switched to part-time acting to study for a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in the NUS Business School, quit her studies and has since returned to acting.
  • The Best Drama Serial nomination for the third season of C.L.I.F. now tied The Unbeatables for its most nominations for its category at three. With the loss to The Journey: Tumultuous Times, C.L.I.F. now holds the record for the most nominations without a win.
  • Star Awards won its fifth consecutive "Best Variety Special" award, part of the five-win streak since the show won her first award in 2010 until its next loss in 2016.