Star Awards 2018

Star Awards 2018 is a television award ceremony which is held in Singapore, with the Post Party and Ceremony Awards was broadcast live on 22 April 2018. A total of 15 awards were handed out during the ceremony, among which the Special Achievement Award, an award given out to a celebrity in recognition to meritorious contribution, returned after a 15-year absence, with the award last presented in 2003, in the place of All-Time Favourite Artiste, which was not presented this year, and the third ceremony overall, after 2007 and 2013.
The ceremony saw When Duty Calls winning the most awards, The Lead was the second-biggest winning drama serial, clinching the two other major categories plus Young Talent award, for a total of three. Seven other programs won at least one award during the ceremony.

Awards

On 5 April 2018, the Creative Achievement Awards was held to recognise the achievements of Mediacorp's creative staff in the past year. It was held in Level 9 of MediaCorp Campus; the guest-of-honour, Tham Loke Kheng, CEO of MediaCorp, gave out the Awards to the recipients.
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.

Teo Kim Kee – Going Miles, Spreading Smiles *Evelyn Gow – Hey Chef! 2**** Lam Yen Fong – Unique Lodging Ng Jin Puay – SPD Charity Show 2017 *Seow Zi Xian – Going Miles, Spreading Smiles	Seah Choon Guan and Chan Yoke Yeng – Mightiest Mother-in-Law Chen Siew Khoon and Chong Mei Yun – Home Truly* Tan Yeow and Seah Choon Guan – When Duty Calls* Lau Ching Poon – Have a [Little Faith (TV series)\|Have a Little Faith]* Cheong Yan Peng and Lim Gim Lan – My Friends from Afar*
Gan Bee Khim – Star Awards 2017 *Alfred Yeo – Thong Chai Charity Show 2017****	Martin Chan – When Duty Calls Loh Woon Woon – While We Are Young* Loo Yin Kam – The Lead* Png Keh Hock – When Duty Calls* Doreen Yap – Dream Coder*

The award ceremony was shown live on 22 April 2018.
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.

When Duty Calls *Have a Little Faith *Mightiest Mother-in-Law *My Friends from Afar *While We Are Young	*Kenny Khoo & Desmond Ng — When Duty Calls* 《以刚克刚》** The Freshman — Dear DJ* 《是爱呀，哈利》 Derrick Hoh — Dream Coder* 《为梦想闪耀》 Life Less Ordinary — Life Less Ordinary《小人物向前冲》 Tay Ping Hui — The Lead 《初衷》
Ah Ma Can Cook *I Love You Mum Challenge - A Gift for Mum *Oh My Heroes! *Take A Break! *The Love 97.2 Breakfast Quartet	Little Masteros *Fixer *Going Miles, Spreading Smiles *National Flavours *Tuesday Report : #myconnectionsg
*Desmond Tan — When Duty Calls* as Loke Jun Guang** Shaun Chen — My Friends from Afar* as Yang Tiansheng Pierre Png — When Duty Calls* as Daniel Tan Romeo Tan — Life Less Ordinary* as Chen Yalong Zhang Zhenhuan — Home Truly* as Su Dongbo	*Rebecca Lim — The Lead* as Lin Meizhen** Chen Liping — Mightiest Mother-in-Law* as Lu Xiuzhu Paige Chua — Mightiest Mother-in-Law* as Guan Shuhui Carrie Wong — My Friends from Afar* as Chen Fengjiao Zoe Tay — While We Are Young* as Fang Ting
*Chen Hanwei — The Lead* as Lin Xiaohu** Chen Shucheng — Home Truly* as Hong Shan Marcus Chin — Have a Little Faith* as Qian Zaide Shane Pow — When Duty Calls* as Gordon Yeoh Brandon Wong — My Friends from Afar* as Chen Xiaolong	*Kym Ng — When Duty Calls* as Loke Mei Guang** Bonnie Loo — Mightiest Mother-in-Law* as Qi Wanling Mei Xin — When Duty Calls* as Germaine Yeoh Sheila Sim — 118 II* as Hong Shanshan Aileen Tan — Have a Little Faith* as Zhuang Kelian
*Isabel Yamada — The Lead* as Younger Version Of Lin Meizhen** Violet Raine Ong — Mightiest Mother-in-Law* as Qi Zihan Cruz Tay — Home Truly* as Ziheng Damien Teo — The Lead* as Younger Version Of Xie Guanghui Toh Xin Hui — My Friends from Afar* as Chen Qingxia	Quan Yi Fong — Unique Lodging Felicia Chin — Going Miles, Spreading Smiles* Guo Liang — Voices* Lee Teng — Fixer* Kym Ng — Ah Ma Can Cook*
Chen Shucheng Marcus Chin Hong Huifang Xiang Yun Zhu Houren	*Chantalle Ng — While We Are Young* as Huang Li Bai Yun** He Ying Ying — 118 II* as Xiao Dingdong Richie Koh — When Duty Calls* as Loke Xian Feng Hazelle Teo — Dear DJ* as Joyce He Zong Zijie — While We Are Young* as Yang Xiaoshuai

Special awards

The Special Achievement Award is an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established since 1994. The Special Achievement Award returned after a 14 years hiatus, with the last award being 2003 where it was temporarily discontinued between 2004 and 2017 in place of the All-Time Favourite Artiste award.

Top 10 Most Popular Artistes

Every year, a poll of 1,000 people representing a wide demographic across Singapore's population, were conducted independently by an accredited market research company, will be used to shortlist the nominations for the Top 20 Male and Female artistes, where they faced the public vote.
This year, 50% of the final results will be derived from this pool of 1,000 people; while the other 50% will comprise telepoll and online voting as a measure of their fan support, to ensure that the representation of results for the Top 10 Most Popular Male and Female artistes were part of the continuous efforts by the Star Awards Committee.
The telepoll lines will be opened from 16 March 2018 and ends on 22 April 2018, 8:30pm.

Post show party

The post show party aired at 10.30pm, after the broadcast of News Tonight. During the party, guests Joanna Dong and Nathan Hartono teased on an upcoming reality-competition that would promote local Chinese pop culture.

Elvin Ng 黄俊雄
*Desmond Tan 陈泂江
*Jeffrey Xu 徐鸣杰
*Qi Yuwu 戚玉武
*Shane Pow 包勋评

Summary of shows with multiple nominations and wins

Most nominations

Programs that received multiple nominations are listed below, by number of nominations per work:

Nominations	Drama
8	When Duty Calls 卫国先锋
6	My Friends From Afar 知星人
5	The Lead 第一主角
5	Mightiest Mother-in-Law 最强岳母
4	Have a Little Faith 相信我
4	Home Truly 回家
4	While [We Are Young (TV series)\|While We Are Young] Z世代
2	118 II
2	Dear DJ 亲爱的九月
2	Dream Coder 梦想程式
2	Life Less Ordinary 小人物向前冲

Nominations	Variety/Info-ed
2	Ah Ma Can Cook 阿嬷来做饭
2	Fixer 线人
2	Going Miles, Spreading Smiles 一人行，暖人心
1	I Love You Mum Challenge - A Gift For Mum 大声说出我爱你——妈妈的礼物
1	Little Maestros 小当家
1	National Flavours 民族味
1	Oh My Heroes 超人哪里找?
1	Take A Break! 说走就走~短假游
1	The Love97.2 Breakfast Quartet 玉健煌崇电视版
1	Tuesday Report: #myconnectionsg 星期二特写：情牵新马
1	Unique Lodging 不一样的旅店
1	Voices 听我说

Most wins

Programs that received multiple wins are listed below, by number of wins per work:

Wins	Drama
5	When Duty Calls 卫国先锋
3	The Lead 第一主角
1	Mightiest Mother-in-Law 最强岳母
1	While We Are Young Z世代

Wins	Variety/Info-ed
1	Ah Ma Can Cook 阿嬷来做饭
1	Little Maestros 小当家
1	Unique Lodging 不一样的旅店

Presenters and performers

The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Presenters

was absent on the ceremony; Lee Teng 李腾 represented Pornsak on his behalf.

Thomas Ong 王沺裁 was absent on the ceremony; Chen Liping 陈莉萍 represented Ong on her behalf.

Trivia

Changes to awards categories

The Best Newcomer returned for the first time after a two-year absence, with the last award presented in 2015.
This year marked the first show a web series had garnered nominations.

Consecutive nominees and recipients

Chen Hanwei received his second Best Supporting Actor Award.
Rebecca Lim received her second Best Actress Award.
Quan Yi Fong won her fifth Best Programme Host Award.
Thomas Ong received Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award; Ong was absent during the ceremony while Chen Liping represented him on his behalf.
Belinda Lee and Pan Lingling received her fifth Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes award since 2010 and 2000, respectively.
Kym Ng received her first acting award this year.
Guo Liang received his fifth Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award since 2010.
All the nominations for the Best Drama Serial were nominated for the first time, ending a five-year streak where at least one nomination received a repeat nomination since the 2012 ceremony.

Firsts in top 10

Jin Yinji and Sheila Sim both received their first Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes award; for the former, Jin was nominated for eight consecutive years before finally winning her first award; Jin was also the oldest winner to win the award.

Absence of awards

This ceremony was the third ceremony since 2004 to not present the All-time Favourite Artiste award. The award would return again in 2019 due to Kym Ng winning her tenth Top 10 award.
*The Special Achievement Award took its place, having returned for the first time since 2003, after 15 years of absence.
Although the Channel 8 News & Current Affairs had at least ten news presenters by the end of 2018, the Best News Presenter and Best Current Affairs Presenter awards were neither presented for the fifth consecutive year.
For unknown reasons, the Rocket award, which is given to the most improved Mediacorp artiste, was also not presented for the second consecutive year.
The Best News Story, Best Current Affairs Story, and Best Variety Special were also not presented this year, all three of which were absent for the first time since 2000.
*Consequently, the absence for Best Variety Special ended Star Awardss 10-year streak of their nomination for the category, with the last time happened being 2005.

Revisions of eligibility criteria

To recognise the contributions to local television more broadly, this year's awards will open up nominations to non-Mediacorp artistes. In response, the Star Awards Committee revised the criteria after considering the constructive feedback of industry watchers and audiences. Acting categories were mostly revised, as reflected below:

Artistes have to play as a lead role in a drama or host in a variety or info-ed program, or as a supporting role/assistant host in at least three eligible programmes or at least 30 episodes out of all eligible programmes, whichever applicable.
For the Evergreen Artiste Award, artistes were now evaluated based on the performances for the entire year to promote versatility. Previously, this award is evaluated on a single program only.

Accolades

Organisation	Year	Category	Nominee	Result	Ref
Star Awards	2019	Best Variety Producer	Khow Hwai Teng	Won
Star Awards	2019	Best Variety Special		Nomitated

Teo Kim Kee – Going Miles, Spreading Smiles *Evelyn Gow – Hey Chef! 2**** Lam Yen Fong – Unique Lodging Ng Jin Puay – SPD Charity Show 2017 *Seow Zi Xian – Going Miles, Spreading Smiles	Seah Choon Guan and Chan Yoke Yeng – Mightiest Mother-in-Law Chen Siew Khoon and Chong Mei Yun – Home Truly* Tan Yeow and Seah Choon Guan – When Duty Calls* Lau Ching Poon – Have a [Little Faith (TV series)\|Have a Little Faith]* Cheong Yan Peng and Lim Gim Lan – My Friends from Afar*
Gan Bee Khim – Star Awards 2017 *Alfred Yeo – Thong Chai Charity Show 2017****	Martin Chan – When Duty Calls Loh Woon Woon – While We Are Young* Loo Yin Kam – The Lead* Png Keh Hock – When Duty Calls* Doreen Yap – Dream Coder*

When Duty Calls *Have a Little Faith *Mightiest Mother-in-Law *My Friends from Afar *While We Are Young	*Kenny Khoo & Desmond Ng — When Duty Calls* 《以刚克刚》** The Freshman — Dear DJ* 《是爱呀，哈利》 Derrick Hoh — Dream Coder* 《为梦想闪耀》 Life Less Ordinary — Life Less Ordinary《小人物向前冲》 Tay Ping Hui — The Lead 《初衷》
Ah Ma Can Cook *I Love You Mum Challenge - A Gift for Mum *Oh My Heroes! *Take A Break! *The Love 97.2 Breakfast Quartet	Little Masteros *Fixer *Going Miles, Spreading Smiles *National Flavours *Tuesday Report : #myconnectionsg
*Desmond Tan — When Duty Calls* as Loke Jun Guang** Shaun Chen — My Friends from Afar* as Yang Tiansheng Pierre Png — When Duty Calls* as Daniel Tan Romeo Tan — Life Less Ordinary* as Chen Yalong Zhang Zhenhuan — Home Truly* as Su Dongbo	*Rebecca Lim — The Lead* as Lin Meizhen** Chen Liping — Mightiest Mother-in-Law* as Lu Xiuzhu Paige Chua — Mightiest Mother-in-Law* as Guan Shuhui Carrie Wong — My Friends from Afar* as Chen Fengjiao Zoe Tay — While We Are Young* as Fang Ting
*Chen Hanwei — The Lead* as Lin Xiaohu** Chen Shucheng — Home Truly* as Hong Shan Marcus Chin — Have a Little Faith* as Qian Zaide Shane Pow — When Duty Calls* as Gordon Yeoh Brandon Wong — My Friends from Afar* as Chen Xiaolong	*Kym Ng — When Duty Calls* as Loke Mei Guang** Bonnie Loo — Mightiest Mother-in-Law* as Qi Wanling Mei Xin — When Duty Calls* as Germaine Yeoh Sheila Sim — 118 II* as Hong Shanshan Aileen Tan — Have a Little Faith* as Zhuang Kelian
*Isabel Yamada — The Lead* as Younger Version Of Lin Meizhen** Violet Raine Ong — Mightiest Mother-in-Law* as Qi Zihan Cruz Tay — Home Truly* as Ziheng Damien Teo — The Lead* as Younger Version Of Xie Guanghui Toh Xin Hui — My Friends from Afar* as Chen Qingxia	Quan Yi Fong — Unique Lodging Felicia Chin — Going Miles, Spreading Smiles* Guo Liang — Voices* Lee Teng — Fixer* Kym Ng — Ah Ma Can Cook*
Chen Shucheng Marcus Chin Hong Huifang Xiang Yun Zhu Houren	*Chantalle Ng — While We Are Young* as Huang Li Bai Yun** He Ying Ying — 118 II* as Xiao Dingdong Richie Koh — When Duty Calls* as Loke Xian Feng Hazelle Teo — Dear DJ* as Joyce He Zong Zijie — While We Are Young* as Yang Xiaoshuai