Star Awards 2019
Star Awards 2019 is a television award ceremony which is held in Singapore. Star Awards 2019 marks the 25th anniversary, or Silver Jubilee, of the Star Awards since it was first awarded in 1994, hence subtitled Star Awards 25. The theme for the ceremony is "The Moment", highlighting the best moments of the local television industries alongside Singapore's talents and audiences as well. This is also the first award ceremony to feature a vocalized version of the Awards' theme tune, titled 《星光》.
Two dramas which received the top two highest nominations, Blessings 2 and A Million Dollar Dream, were tied with the most wins with three; Blessings 2 won the Best Drama Serial, Best Director and Young Talent Awards, while A Million Dollar Dream won three of four acting categories except Best Supporting Actress. No other drama or variety programs won multiple awards, as 12 programs won only one, five of which were from the drama category. This was also the first ceremony in Star Awards history both the Special Achievement Award|Special Achievement] and All-Time Favourite Artiste awards, an award replacing in-lieu of the former award, were presented on the same show.
A short series, 24 Milestones《回顾红星25》, was produced in commemoration to the celebration. A one-minute long highlight snippet was uploaded daily at midnight on Toggle, featuring the best moments of Star Awards starting from the debut year of 1994, from 20 March onwards, beginning a 24-day countdown towards the ceremony.
Nominees and winners
Creative achievement awards
On 28 March 2019, the presentation of creative achievement awards was held at Level 9 of MediaCorp Campus to recognise the achievements of Mediacorp’s creative staff in the past year. The presentation were held outside the main Star Awards ceremony.The awards were hosted by Desmond Ng and Quan Yi Fong and was presented on Channel 8's Facebook page live. Tham Loke Kheng, CEO of MediaCorp, gave out the Awards to the recipients.
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.
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Star Awards
The Nominees were announced on 8 February 2019.Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.
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Special awards
The All-Time Favourite Artiste is a special achievement award given out to artiste who have achieved a maximum of 10 popularity awards over 10 years.| Kym Ng |
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Top 10 Most Popular Artistes
Similar to last year's revision of format, a poll of 1,000 people representing a wide demographic across Singapore's population, conducted independently by an accredited market research company, will be used to identify the top 20 Male and Female artistes who will go on to the next round of public voting; this and the votes from telepoll and online voting as a measure of their fan support weighed 50% each.The nominations were announced on 7 March 2019; the telepoll voting opened shortly at 3.00pm, while the Online voting opens a day later at 12.00pm. Voting closed on 14 April 2019, at 8.30pm, during the ceremony.
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| Italic | New to list |
| Bold | Top 10 winners |
| n | Recipient's accumulated number of awards |
| 10 | Recipient won his/her tenth Top 10 award and would be awarded the "All-time Favourite Artiste" on the following year's ceremony. |
Multiple awards and nominations
| Nominations | Drama/Short-Form Drama |
| 8 | Blessings 2 祖先保佑2 |
| 6 | A Million Dollar Dream 给我一百万 |
| 5 | You Can Be An Angel 3 你也可以是天使3 |
| 5 | Mind Matters 心。情 |
| 4 | Say Cheese 西瓜甜不甜 |
| 4 | VIC 维多利亚的模力 |
| 3 | Doppelganger 入侵者 |
| 2 | Eat Already? S4 吃饱没?4 |
| 2 | Dream Walker 梦行者 |
| 2 | Babies On Board 新生 |
| 2 | Fifty And Fabulous 五零高手 |
| Nominations | Programme/Short-Form Programme/Variety Special |
| 3 | GeTai Challenge 2018 歌台星力量 兴旺发 |
| 2 | Fixer 2 线人2 |
| 2 | Dennis Uncovers 周公找茶 |
| 2 | Away With My BFF 老友出走记 |
| 2 | Taste of Love 两代美味关系 |
| 2 | SPOP SING! - Grand Final SPOP听我唱！- 大决赛 |
| 2 | Star Awards 2018 红星大奖 2018 |
| Wins | Drama/Short-Form Drama |
| 3 | A Million Dollar Dream 给我一百万 |
| 3 | Blessings 2 祖先保佑2 |
Presenters and performers
Creative achievement awards ceremony| Name | Role |
| Doreen Yeoh | Presenter of the judges segment in the Creative Achievement Award |
| Tham Loke Kheng 谭乐琼 | Gave out the award for Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Variety Research Writer, Best Variety Producer |
Presenters
Lists of Presenters' names were announced on 3 April 2019.
| Name | Role |
| Lucy Chow 周如珠 | Announcer for Star Awards 2019 |
| Quan Yi Fong 权怡凤 | Gave A Opening Monologue of Star Awards 2019 |
| Past recipients of Young Talent awards : Li Xian Min 李咸愍 Jason Liang 梁世杰 Kyle Chan 陈星余 Regene Lim 林詠谊 Tan Jun Sheng 陈俊生 Lyn Oh Ling En 胡菱恩 Damien Teo 张值豪 Isabel Yamada 山田熙 Toh Xin Hui 杜芯慧 | Presenters of the award for Young Talent Award |
| Lan Cheng Long 蓝正龙 Elvin Ng 黄俊雄 | Presenter of the awards for Best Short-form Drama Serial and Best Short-form Variety Programme |
| Joyce Cheng 郑欣宜 Kaiser Chuang 庄凯勋 | Presenter of the award for Best Newcomer |
| Roger Kwok 郭晋安 | Presenter of the award for Best Evergreen Artiste |
| Tony Sun 孙协志 Kym Ng 鐘琴 | Presenter of the award for Best Info-ed Programme and Best Variety Programme |
| Bowie Tsang 曾宝仪 | Presenter of the award for Best Variety Special and Best Programme Host |
| Eric Chou 周兴哲 | Presenter of the award for Best Theme Song |
| Mediacorp CEO Tham Loke Kheng 谭乐琼 | Gave out the award for All-time favourite artiste |
| Fann Wong 范文芳 Roger Kwok 郭晋安 | Presenter of the award for Best Support Actor and Best Supporting Actress |
| Chen Hanwei 陈汉玮 Zoe Tay 郑惠玉 | Presenter of the award for Best Drama Serial |
| Ong Ye Kung 王乙康 | Gave out the award for Special Achievement Award |
| Jerry Yan 言承旭 Wu Jinyan 吴谨言 | Presenter of the award for Best Actor and Best Actress |
| Cecilia Cheung 张柏芝 Quan Yi Fong 权怡凤 | Presenter of the award for Top 10 Most Popular Female and Male Artistes |
Performers
| Name | Show | Performances |
| Daryl-Ann Jansen 莉玉 Jarrell Ng 黄俊融 Marcus Tay 郑俊杰 Karena Yeo 杨凯玲 | Creative Achievement | Performed 《星光》 |
| Bonnie Loo 罗美仪 Desmond Ng 黄振隆 | Creative Achievement | Performed《每天为你唱歌》 |
| Daryl-Ann Jansen 莉玉 Marcus Tay 郑俊杰 Karena Yeo 杨凯玲 Jarrell Ng 黄俊融 All SPOP Sing! finalists | Walk-of-fame | Performed the Best Theme Song nominations :
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| Desmond Tan 陈泂江 Zoe Tay 郑惠玉 Chen Han Wei 陈汉玮 Rebecca Lim 林慧玲 | Main Show | Performed 《星光》 |
| Xu Bin 徐彬 Timothee Yap 叶劲维 Zong Zijie 宗子杰 Gavin Teo 崇喆 | Main Show | Performed 《小人物的心声》in memoriam to Aloysius Pang |
| Eric Chou 周兴哲 | Main Show | Performed 《如果雨之后》and《怎么了》 |
| All SPOP Sing! finalists | Main Show | Performed 《星光》 |
Ceremony
The show opens with a cold open containing references to nominations for Best Drama Serial starring Quan Yi Fong, who time-traveled back to 1918 and phone-calling three other characters before recalling how the main protagonist returning to her own time and arrived at the stage to begin the show. After the opening, Quan brought references from past ceremonies while asking celebrities, 2014 and 2015.In the midst of the ceremony, several Star Search contestants and artistes performed a walk-in skit. Following the skit, it was revealed by Quan, one of the hosts in the then-recent tenth season, that the eleventh season of Star Search would return after a nine-year hiatus, with open auditions to commence on 4 and 12 May. The segment ends with a teaser featuring the first season winner Zoe Tay.
Changes to award categories
The Best Short-form Drama Serial and Best Short-form Variety Programme were introduced this year to highlight short series that have two or more episodes with a total running time of at least 150 minutes, and the series must tell a complete, non-recurring story, and not have an ongoing storyline or main characters from the actual series.The Best Variety Special award returned after it was not presented last year.