Star Awards 2015

Star Awards 2015 (also SA2015, Chinese: 红星大奖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 Strs Avenue in the subsequent year, henceforth the subtitles for the ceremony name itself.^[1][2][3]

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[edit]

Winners and nominees[edit]

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

Show 1 (加利谷闪耀星光)[edit]

The first show, titled "加利谷闪耀星光" (The Starlight of Caldecott), was broadcast on 19 April 2015.

Professionally Judged Awards[edit]

^1 Lim was absent during the ceremony due to illness; Kang Lay See represented the award on his behalf.

Awards Eligible for Voting[edit]

Most Popular Regional Artiste Award[edit]

The award is based on online voting done in the 4 territories; Indonesia, China, Malaysia and Cambodia.

China 中国	Christopher Lee 李铭顺2
Malaysia 马来西亚	Jeanette Aw 欧萱
Indonesia 印度尼西亚
Cambodia 柬埔寨

^ Lee was absent and did not receive the award personally as he was still filming in Taiwan.

Special Awards[edit]

Viewership awards[edit]

Show 2 (加利谷颁奖典礼)[edit]

The second show, titled "加利谷颁奖典礼" (Award Ceremony of Caldecott), was broadcast on 26 April 2015.

Professionally Judged Awards[edit]

All Time Favourite Artiste[edit]

This award is a special achievement award given out to artiste(s) 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.

Awards Eligible for Voting[edit]

Top 10 awards[edit]

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.

Post Show Party Awards (红星大奖2015庆功宴)[edit]

Statistics[edit]

Shows are ordered based on number of nominations, release date and type order.

Current affairs series nominations:

Presenters and performers[edit]

The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Show 1[edit]

Show 2[edit]

Ceremony information[edit]

Award Information[edit]

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 2024, 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.^[4] 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 (and subsequently won) for them in the following year, but eventually led to a rework of all the voting categories by 2017.^[5] 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.^[6][7]

Consecutive and records in award categories, first in Top 10[edit]

• 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 (three, for Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia), Social Media Award, Favourite Female Character, Favourite Onscreen Couple (Drama) (with Zhang Zhenhuan, who they also won all the Favourite category awards) and All-Time Favourite Artiste (with Vivian Lai).
• 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 (and won) 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 (which became the eighth drama to receive a second nomination), 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.

Awards categories[edit]

• This was the first show to introduce the category for Tokyo Bust Express Sexy Babe Award.

Other trivia[edit]

• Jack Neo's comeback appearance as Liang Po Po in nearly 15 years.

Star Awards 2016 nominations[edit]

The 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.

See also[edit]

• List of programmes broadcast by Mediacorp Channel 8
• Mediacorp Channel 8
• Star Awards

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