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.
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.Most Popular Regional Artiste award
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 Special awardsViewership awardsShow 2The second show, titled "加利谷颁奖典礼", was broadcast on 26 April 2015.All Time Favourite ArtisteThis 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.
Top 10 awardsSince 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.
StatisticsShows are ordered based on number of nominations, release date and type order.Drama series nominations:
Drama series awards:
Variety / info-ed series nominations:
Variety / info-ed / current affairs series awards:
Current affairs series nominations:
Presenters and performersThe following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.Ceremony informationAward InformationFor 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
Awards categories
Other trivia
AccoladesThe 2015 ceremony was nominated for Best Variety Producer and Best Variety Special in the ceremony next year, but were lost to Love on the Plate 3 and GeTai Challenge, respectively; for the latter, the loss ended a five-win streak of winning the "Best Variety Special" since Star Awards 2010.
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