Star Awards 2017
Star Awards 2017 is a television award ceremony which is held in Singapore. It is part of the annual Star Awards organised by Mediacorp for free-to-air channels Channels 8 and U. The Road to Star Awards 2017 was broadcast live on 26 March, and 2 and 9 April 2017. The theme for the 2017 Star Award is "Iridescence".
The nominations for the awards were first revealed 23 January 2017, followed by the Top 10 Most Favourite Artistes on a press conference on 3 March 2017 at Marina Square. 12 programs won at least one award, among which Best Drama Serial Hero, along with The Dream Job and The Gentlemen, as well as variety series As I Hold Your Hand, were tied with the most wins for a ceremony with two.
Programme details
''The Road to Star Awards 2017''
As part of the "3+1" format introduced exclusively this year, The Road to Star Awards 2017 is a series of three one-hour live-broadcast prelude shows leading up to the main presentation itself, premiering on 26 March. Each one of the three episodes focuses on one of the award categories with invited artistes, mostly nominees, usually come to discuss the award ceremony and predicted their favorites for the acting categories. The end of each episode also reveal the current standing for the Top 10 Most Favorite Artistes award, and the bottom four artistes at the close of the third episode were eliminated from running of the award, a first in Star Awards history.Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.
Episode 1 – Drama
The theme for Show 1 focuses on drama, and artistes – mainly the performance category nominees, were invited to the preludes and asked to select their favourites for the acting categories. Andie Chen was the artistes' choice for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, while Zoe Tay and Paige Chua were the picks for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively.
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Episode 2 – Variety
The theme for Show 2 is variety, focusing on the variety and info-ed awards, as well as awards sponsored by the show's brands, Bioskin and London Choco Roll. During the show, Quan Yi Fong was the artistes' choice for the Best Programme Host. In one segment, the variety hosts also compared awards they have won so far.
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Episode 3 – Stardom
In the third and final week of preludes, Kate Pang replaced Pornsak as co-host, since the latter took leave. The All-Time Favourite Artistes, Quan Yi Fong, Elvin Ng and Joanne Peh were interviewed by Dennis Chew with a series of quick-fire question and answer segment; Peh, who pre-recorded her acceptance speech in anticipation of her labour of her second child, provided the funniest answer when asked to share her "favourite body part" of husband Qi Yuwu. South Korean actor So Ji-sub made an appearance at the end of the episode, who was tasked to unlock the briefcase containing the envelopes for the shortlists for the 40 artistes still running for the Top 10 Most Popular Artiste award.Star Awards 2017 awards ceremony
The awards ceremony was held on 16 April 2017 at the MES Theatre @ Mediacorp. The ceremony was hosted by Lee Teng and featured a total of 16 international presenters and performers.Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.
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Special awards
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 all three of recipients were awarded are highlighted in boldface, while years with only one recipient winning are highlighted in italics. The award will not be presented in 2018, as there are no recipients with ten Top 10 Most Popular Male or Female Artistes award wins to allow the award to be presented that year.Top 10 Most Popular Artistes
This year's Top 10 Most Popular Artistes awards sees the number of nominees expanded by eight – four per gender – to 48, the second time to expand such number since 2011. As usual, viewers voted for their favourite artiste through telepoll and online voting. At the end of the preludes, the top 20 artistes for each gender advanced to the main presentation to vie for the Top 10 awards. Voting for the awards opened at noon on 4 March and ended at 8:30 pm on 16 April.The nominees are listed in telepoll line order. The results of the Top 10 awards are not in any rank order.
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| Females | |
| Males | |
| Italic | New to list |
| Bold | Top 10 winners |
| Show 1 Bottom 4 | |
| Show 2 Top 8 / Main presentation Top n | |
| n | Recipient's accumulated number of awards |
| Artiste was eliminated after the preludes |
Multiple nominations
Dramas and programmes with multiple nominations
| Nominations | Drama |
| 12 | Hero 大英雄 |
| 9 | The Dream Job 绝世好工 |
| 8 | You Can Be an Angel 2 你也可以是天使2 |
| 5 | The Gentlemen 来自水星的男人 |
| 5 | If Only I Could 十年。。。你还好吗？ |
| 4 | Peace & Prosperity 富贵平安 |
| 3 | Fire Up 美味下半场 |
| 2 | C.L.I.F. 4 警徽天职4 |
| 2 | House of Fortune 钱来运转 |
| 2 | Life - Fear Not 人生无所畏 |
| 1 | The Truth Seekers 真探 |
| Nominations | Variety/Info-ed |
| 4 | BENGpire 黑黑真好玩 |
| 3 | As I Hold Your Hand 大手牵老手 |
| 3 | Star Awards 2016 红星大奖2016 |
| 3 | The 4 Chefs 4大名厨 |
| 2 | Chefs on Wheels 大厨驾到 |
| 2 | Frontline 前线追踪 |
| 2 | Focus 焦点 |
| 2 | Hearts and Hugs 爱心72小时 |
| 2 | Lunar New Year Eve Special 2016 灵猴庆丰年 |
| 2 | Markets in Asia 游市集 |
| 2 | Tuesday Report 星期二特写 |
Dramas and programmes with multiple awards
| Wins | Drama |
| 2 | The Dream Job 绝世好工 |
| 2 | The Gentlemen 来自水星的男人 |
| 2 | Hero 大英雄 |
| 1 | C.L.I.F. 4 警徽天职4 |
| 1 | If Only I Could 十年。。。你还好吗？ |
| 1 | Peace & Prosperity 富贵平安 |
| 1 | The Truth Seekers 真探 |
| 1 | You Can Be an Angel 2 你也可以是天使2 |
| Wins | Variety/Info-ed |
| 2 | As I Hold Your Hand 大手牵老手 |
| 1 | Focus 焦点 |
| 1 | Hearts and Hugs 爱心72小时 |
| 1 | Markets in Asia 游市集 |
| 1 | Star Awards 2016 红星大奖2016 |
Presenters and performers
The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.Presenters
Performers
| Name | Show | Role | Performed |
| Felicia Chin 陈凤玲 | Prelude 1 | Performer | Performed 《人生无所畏》 from Life - Fear Not 人生无所畏 |
| Carrie Wong 黄思恬 | Prelude 1 | Performer | Performed 《天使》 from You Can Be an Angel 2 你也可以是天使2 |
| Elvin Ng 黄俊雄 Marcus Chin 陈建彬 Wang Lei 王雷 | Prelude 2 | Performers | Performed 《吃饱没？》 from Eat Already? 吃饱没？ |
| Andie Chen 陈邦鋆 | Prelude 3 | Performer | Performed 《最美的时光》 from If Only I Could 十年。。。你还好吗？ |
| Shaun Chen 陈泓宇 Rebecca Lim 林慧玲 | Prelude 3 | Performers | Performed 《年轮》 from The Dream Job 绝世好工 |
| Richie Koh 许瑞奇 Denise Camillia Tan 陈楚寰 He Yingying 何盈莹 Hong Ling 洪凌 Bonnie Loo 罗美仪 Michelle Wong 黄怡灵 Desmond Ng 黄振隆 | Prelude 3 | Performers | Performed 《摩天轮》 |
| So Ji-sub 苏志燮 | Prelude 3 | Special appearance | Special appearance, delivered the envelopes for the Top 20 shortlists |
| Drum Tao | Main Presentation | Performers | Drum performance 《舞动的太鼓》 |
| Della Ding 丁当 | Main Presentation | Performer | Performed 《手掌心》, 《我爱他》 and 《想恋一个爱》 |
| Eleanor Lee 李凯馨 | Main Presentation | Quan Yi Fong's daughter Performer | All-Time Favourite Artiste acceptance speech Performed 《谢谢你》 |
| Hiroki Hara | Main Presentation | Magician | Magic performance |
Ceremony information
Award Information
The 2017 show announced that the format will feature a "3+1" format, with broadcast of three prelude episodes focusing mostly on technical awards and discussions prior to the actual ceremony, thus making it the first show since 2009 to have one main ceremony. While technical awards are presented during the lead-up shows, the backstage awards and the Rocket Award were neither mentioned nor awarded for unknown reasons. The Best News Story and Best Current Affairs Story were presented for the last time this ceremony, ending a 17-year tradition where News and Current Affairs awards are presented in the awards since its inception in 2000.Owing to Jeanette Aw's dominance in viewer-based awards, voting-based awards had been reworked during the ceremony, whereas online voting are now incorporated along with the Top 10 Most Favourite Artistes, and had its other categories removed until its reappearance in 2022. The Top 10 had also expanded its number of nominations to 24 for the first time since 2011, with intermediate eliminations for the first time ever after the third prelude show ended.
With the Infocomm Media Development Authority's revamp of its measurement of viewership, as well as the introduction of infomercials in prime-time programming, both the Top Rated Variety Programme and Top Rated Drama Serial awards were also removed.
Consecutive and records in award categories, first in Top 10
- This is the fourth instance whereby all but one of the nominees for a single category were nominated for the same programme.
- Terence Cao and Cheng Xiao Ying has by far the longest absence by any returning artiste at a gap of 19 and 16 ceremonies, having last nominated in 1998 and 2001, respectively.
- Eight artistes were nominated for the Top 10 for the first time, which were Bonnie Loo, He Yingying, Hong Ling, Seraph Sun, Sora Ma, Andie Chen, Cavin Soh and Desmond Ng.
- Chen Hanwei was tied with Xie Shaoguang on winning the most number of Best Actor wins, with five.
- Star Awards was tied with NKF Charity Show on winning the most number of Best Variety Special wins, with seven.
- The nominations for the Best Drama Serial saw records:
- *You Can Be an Angel Too became the tenth series to receive more than one nomination for the category.
- *C.L.I.F. became the first series to receive a fourth nomination for the category, surpassing The Unbeatables and The Journeys three. C.L.I.F. 4 Best Drama Serial loss to Hero meant it set a record for most nominations for the category without winning Best Drama Serial.
[Star Awards 2018] nominations
| Nominee | Award | Accolade | Representative work | Result |
| Gan Bee Khim 颜美琴 | Star Awards 2018 红星大奖2018之幕后英雄颁奖礼 | Best Variety Producer 最佳综艺编导 | Star Awards 2017 红星大奖2017 | Won |