Star Awards 2023

Star Awards 2023
红星大奖 2023
Sponsored byHolistic Way
Wells Singapore
Royal Caribbean International
Singlife
Date30 March 2023 (Gala Night)
9 April 2023 (Main Ceremony)
LocationMarina Bay Sands, Singapore
Presented byBioskin
Chan Brothers
Hosted byBackstage:
Jeremy Chan
Hazelle Teo
Zhu Zeliang
Ke Le
Jernelle Oh
Lim Pinjuen
Walk of Fame:
Dennis Chew
Hazelle Teo
Main show:
Lee Teng
Matilda Tao
Highlights
Most awardsYour World in Mine (6)
Most nominationsYour World In Mine (9)
Best Drama SerialYour World in Mine
Best Variety ShowDishing with Chris Lee
Formal AwardsAll-time Favourite Artiste: Felicia Chin
Rebecca Lim
Television/radio coverage
NetworkMediacorp Channel 8
Mediacorp Channel U
mewatch
YouTube
Astro AEC
Astro GO (Channel 302)
Runtime180 mins (Awards Ceremony)
90 mins (Walk-of-fame)
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The Star Awards 2023 ceremony, the 28th edition of Star Awards, presented by the Mediacorp, took place on 9 April 2023 at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. During the gala, Mediacorp presented Star Awards in 12 categories honoring Mediacorp's employees, minor awards in four categories and sponsored awards in two categories. The ceremony was televised on Channel 8. Lee Teng and Taiwanese actress-singer Matilda Tao, hosted the show.

Mediacorp also hosted a gala dinner, held at JW Marriott Hotel on 30 March 2023 and hosted by Hazelle Teo and Dennis Chew.[1][2] Five Star Awards were also presented during the dinner.

Your World in Mine won six awards, including Best Drama Serial. The Breakfast Quartet - LOVE 972, Dishing with Chris Lee, Forgotten Children, Star Awards 2022 and Mr Zhou's Ghost Stories @ Singapore Sightings won one award each.

Winners and nominees

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Nominations for the professional awards were announced on 15 February.[3] Slice of life drama Your World in Mine had the most nominations (nine) and won the most number of awards (six) including Best Drama Serial; many of the nominations were oriented towards younger actors, especially first-timers for Best Actor Richie Koh, Desmond Ng and Ayden Sng, as well as Brandon Wong being the sole nominee to also be nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award; Koh's win also set a record on becoming the youngest recipient of the lead actor role. For the first time since 2001, Huang Biren and Zoe Tay were nominated for Best Actress in the same ceremony, and with both actresses having a tie for the most wins at four at that time, the former would go on to win her fifth award.[4][5]

In the entertainment categories, Christopher Lee won the Best Programme Host, ending a five-year streak previously held by frequent winner Quan Yi Fong, and Lee becoming the third recipient for the award after Quan and Lee Teng. Das DD also become the first artiste of Indian origin to be nominated for and subsequently win a Performance Award. Both Star Awards and Love 972 The Breakfast Quartet continued their winning streak for their Variety Special and Radio Programme, respectively.[4]

The voting categories were announced on 6 March; while MyPick! category was returned for its second year, in a history first for Star Awards, voting categories were also heavily emphasized and competitive, and there was no cap on the number of artistes eligible for the Top Ten Most Popular Favourite Artistes award as criteria were relaxed, along with the introduction of the Top Three Most Popular Rising Stars award, a non-gender-affiliated voting award for artistes with no more than five years of showbiz experience. In an official statement, the award criteria for "All-Time Favourite Artiste" was also revised, such that wins from the Most Popular Rising Stars Award would count towards the 10 wins needed to be conferred the All-Time Favourite Artiste.[6] The three recipients of the inaugural award were Gao Mei Gui, Richie Koh and Ayden Sng, along with six other first Top 10 recipients Jeremy Chan, Chen Bi Yu, Chen Ning, Jeff Goh, Tasha Low and Denise Camillia Tan. Of the four artistes, Ann Kok, Jesseca Liu, Yvonne Lim, and Pornsak, each with nine Top 10 Most Popular Artistes wins at the time, only Kok and Liu were nominated for, and would go on to win their tenth award. Felicia Chin and Rebecca Lim, the latter being the ninth celebrity to win the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes for ten consecutive ceremonies, were the year's recipients for "All-time Favourite Artiste".

Awards

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Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[a]

Star Awards 2023 - Industry Achievement Awards (March 30, 2023)
Best Drama Serial Best Radio Programme
  • Your World in Mine
    • Dark Angel
    • Genie In A Cup
    • When Duty Calls (season 2)
    • You Can Be An Angel (season 4)
  • The Breakfast Quartet - LOVE 972
    • Mr Zhou's Ghost Stories - LOVE972
    • Small City, Big Matters - CAPITAL 958
    • The DAKA Show - YES 933
    • The Shuang and Kunz Show - YES 933
Best Entertainment Programme Best Infotainment Programme
  • Dishing with Chris Lee
    • A Night Under The Stars
    • Hear U Out S3
    • House Everything? (season 2)
    • King Of Culinary
  • Forgotten Children
    • As You Grow Old
    • Being Together : A Family Portrait
    • Find Me A Singaporean : The Pandemic Special
    • Old Taste Detective (season 3)
Best Entertainment Special Best Theme Song
  • Lennerd Lim - 你的世界 (Your World In Mine)
    • xxmxrcs (Marcus Tay) - 加码梦想 (Genie In A Cup)
    • Jocie Guo - 恋香 (Love at First Bite)
    • Meng FM - 怒放 (When Duty Calls (season 2))
    • Desmond Ng, Lingkai - 天使的微笑 (You Can Be An Angel (season 4)}
Best Short-Form Programme
  • Mr Zhou's Ghost Stories @ Singapore Sightings
    • #justswipelah
    • Ben Yeo's Kitchen
    • House Collectors
    • Jiak Kentang
Star Awards 2023 - Main Ceremony (April 9, 2023)
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Young Talent Award Best Evergreen Artiste
  • Alfred Ong - Healing Heroes as Huang Zirui
    • Chia Zhi Xuan Ivory- Love at First Bite as Young Chang Xiyue
    • Goh Wee Ann - Home Again as Young Ye Pingan
    • Mendelsohn Asher Wenyao - Dark Angel as Young Zhu Wei
    • Nicholas Lim Tao Rui - Dark Angel as Young Chen Yiyi
Best Programme Host Best Rising Star

Special awards

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This is given to an artist who has received a total of ten "Top 10 Most Popular Male / Female Artiste Awards" and/or "Most Popular Rising Star Award," which do not have to be consecutive. The artiste will receive an All-Time Favourite Artiste Award after winning the tenth popularity award.[8][9]

All Time Favourite Artiste
超级红星
Rebecca Lim

2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2021 | 2022

Felicia Chin

2006 | 2007 | 2009 | 2010 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2022

Popularity Awards

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Table key
Artistes Made it to Top 20 in the week
n Indicates the winner
10 Winner of 10th award to be named All-Time Favourite Artiste at next ceremony
  • Winner will be listed first and highlighted in color.

As with all ceremonies since 2017, nominees will participate in a nationwide poll of 1,000 people from Singapore's population, with an equitable breakdown across various age groups ("Popularity Survey") and public voting, to determine the winners.[10] The voting weightage was also changed to 20%-80% respectively.[11][12]

Voting was held from 6 March until 9 April 8pm during the ceremony. For the first time ever, there was no maximum cap on the number of artistes eligible to be nominated as a total of 75 artistes (36 females and 39 males) were nominated for the voting category. As with ceremonies since 2021 to promote audience participation, the 10 votes per day restriction was lifted during the final hours of voting, occurring on the actual day starting at 12am.

十大最受欢迎女艺人
Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes
Artistes Top 10
Ann Kok 郭舒贤 10
Jesseca Liu 刘子绚 10
Carrie Wong 黄思恬 8
Paige Chua 蔡琦慧 8
Ya Hui 雅慧 7
Chantalle Ng 黄暄婷 2
Chen Bi Yu 陈碧玉 1
Tasha Low 刘怡伶 1
Chen Ning 陈宁 1
Denise Camillia Tan 陈楚寰 1
十大最受欢迎男艺人
Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes
Artistes Top 10
Romeo Tan 陈罗密欧 8
Guo Liang 郭亮 8
Desmond Tan 陈泂江 7
Shaun Chen 陈泓宇 6
Xu Bin 徐彬 5
Marcus Chin 陈建彬 3
Desmond Ng 黃振隆 2
Brandon Wong 黄炯耀 2
Jeff Goh 吴万隆 1
Jeremy Chan 田铭耀 1
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In addition to the traditional Top 10, this award is aimed at junior artistes with no more than five years of showbiz experience; unlike the Top 10, this award is not gender-affiliated and only the three artistes with the most votes would win the award. Wins in this category will count towards the cumulative number of wins for the "All-Time Favourite Artistes".[13][14][15] [16]

最受欢迎潜力星
Most Popular Rising Star Award
Top 3 Winners
Ayden Sng 孙政
Gao Mei Gui 高美贵
Richie Koh 许瑞奇

MyPick! Categories

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A minor award ceremony called MyPICK! which had been presented for the second consecutive year since 2022.

The public voted to select the winners of the MY PICK! categories. Voting began at 12:00 p.m. on March 6, 2023. Voting was free and open to all voters with a valid meCONNECT account. Each voter could only vote once every day in each award category. The results were unveiled on April 9, 2023, during the Star Awards 2023 - Backstage Marathon.[17]

MY PICK!最吸晴男角色
MY PICK! Favourite Male Show Stealer
MY PICK!最吸晴女角色
MY PICK! Favourite Female Show Stealer
  • Richie Koh 许瑞奇 - Your World in Mine 《你的世界我们懂》as Zheng Tiancai 郑天才
    • James Seah 谢俊峰 - Soul Detective 《灵探》 as Bai Ye 白烨
    • Jeremy Chan 田铭耀 - Soul Detective 《灵探》 as 4896
    • Qi Yuwu 戚玉武 - Dark Angel 《黑天使》 as Zhu Wei 朱玮
    • Xu Bin 徐彬 - Love At First Bite《遇见你,真香!》 as Martius
MYPICK! 最强CP
MYPICK! Favourite CP
  • Xu Bin 徐彬 and Chantalle Ng 黄瑄婷 - Love At First Bite《遇见你,真香!》 as Martius and Chang Xiyue 常喜悦
MYPICK! 最讨人厌大反派
MYPICK! Most Hated Villain

Sponsorship Voting Category

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Bioskin Most Charismatic Artiste Award - Red Carpet
Chan Brothers My Star Guide Award - Backstage

Bioskin Most Charismatic Artiste Award
Bioskin 魅力四射奖
Chan Brothers My Star Guide Award
曾兄弟我的导游是红星奖
  • Ayden Sng 孙政
    • Carrie Wong 黄思恬
    • Fang Rong 芳榕
    • Nick Teo 张奕恺
    • Richie Koh 许瑞奇
  • Ayden Sng 孙政 (Destination: Melbourne)
    • Chen Han Wei 陈汉玮 (Destination: Bhutan)
    • Guo Liang 郭亮 (Destination: China)
    • Herman Keh 郭坤耀 (Destination: Turkey)
    • Romeo Tan 陈罗密欧 (Destination: Japan)

Nominations

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Winning category obtained are marked with bold.

Drama Series
Nominations Winning Number Drama Name Nominated Category
9 5 Your World in Mine 《你的世界我们懂》 Best Drama Serial 最佳戏剧
Best Theme Song 最佳主题曲
Best Actor 最佳男主角 (2)
Best Actress 最佳女主角 (2)
Best Supporting Actor 最佳男配角
Best Supporting Actress 最佳女配角 (2)
6 1 Dark Angel 《黑天使》 Best Drama Serial 最佳戏剧
Best Actor 最佳男主角
Best Actress 最佳女主角
Best Supporting Actor 最佳男配角 (2)
Best Supporting Actress 最佳女配角
4 When Duty Calls S2 《卫国先锋2》 Best Drama Serial 最佳戏剧
Best Theme Song 最佳主题曲
Best Supporting Actress 最佳女配角
Best Rising Star Award 最佳潜力星
3 Genie in A Cup 《哇到宝》 Best Drama Serial 最佳戏剧
Best Theme Song 最佳主题曲
Best Supporting Actor 最佳男配角
2 You Can Be An Angel S4 《你也可以是天使4》 Best Drama Serial 最佳戏剧
Best Theme Song 最佳主题曲
2 Soul Detective 《灵探》 Best Actress 最佳女主角
Best Rising Star Award 最佳潜力星
Television Programme
Nominations Winning Number Programme Name Nominated Category
3 1 #justswipelah 《#刷一刷》 Best Short-Form Entertainment Programme 最佳短篇综艺节目
Best Rising Star Award 最佳潜力星 (2)
2 Hear U Out S3 《权听你说 3》 Best Entertainment Programme 最佳综艺节目
Best Programme Host 最佳综艺及资讯节目主持人
Old Taste Detective S3 古早味侦探 3
A Night Under The Stars 陪你看星星
2 Dishing with Chris Lee 阿顺有煮意 Best Entertainment Programme 最佳综艺节目
Best Programme Host 最佳综艺及资讯节目主持人
1 Mr Zhou's Ghost Stories @ Singapore Sightings 周公讲鬼, 哪里有鬼? Best Short-Form Entertainment Programme 最佳短篇综艺节目
Best Programme Host 最佳综艺及资讯节目主持人
Star Awards 2022 红星大奖2022 Best Entertainment Special 最佳综艺特备节目
MYPick! Awards
Nominations Winning Number Drama Name Nominated Category
8 1 Your World in Mine 《你的世界我们懂》 Favourite Male Show Stealer 最吸晴男角色
Favourite Female Show Stealer 最吸晴女角色 (3)
Favourite CP 最强CP (2)
Most Hated Villain 最讨人厌大反派 (2)
3 Dark Angel 《黑天使》 Favourite Male Show Stealer 最吸晴男角色
Most Hated Villain 最讨人厌大反派 (2)
Soul Detective 《灵探》 Favourite Male Show Stealer 最吸晴男角色 (2)
Favourite Female Show Stealer 最吸晴女角色
Genie In A Cup 《哇到宝》 Favourite Female Show Stealer 最吸晴女角色
Favourite CP 最强CP
Most Hated Villain 最讨人厌大反派
2 1 Love At First Bite 《遇见你,真香!》 Favourite Male Show Stealer 最吸晴男角色
Favourite CP 最强CP

Presenters and performers

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Order of the presentation, name of the presenter(s), and award(s) they presented
Star Awards 2023 - Industry Achievement Awards (March 30, 2023)
Order Presenter Award/Role(s)
1 Kym Ng Best Radio Programme
2 Angeline Poh
Chief Customer & Corporate Development Officer
Best Infotainment Programme
3 Chen Hanwei Introduced Genie In A Cup Series
4 Xiang Yun Introduced You Can Be An Angel S4 Series
5 Jaspers Lai
Mark Lee
Best Short-Form Programme
6 Angeline Poh
Chief Customer & Corporate Development Officer
Best Entertainment Programme
7 Best Entertainment Special
8 Pierre Png Introduced When Duty Calls S2 Series
9 Richie Koh Introduced Your World in Mine Series
10 Lee Wei Song Best Theme Song
11 Qi Yuwu Introduced Dark Angel Series
12 Chen Hanwei
Xiang Yun
Pierre Png
Richie Koh
Qi Yuwu
Invited up on stage by Hazelle Teo and Dennis Chew to present Best Drama Series
Star Awards 2023 - Main Ceremony
Order Presenter Award/Role(s)
1 Lee Teng
Matilda Tao
Opening Monologue
2 Most Popular Rising Star
3 Best Rising Star
4 Best Evergreen Artiste
5 Xiang Yun Young Talent Award
6 Chen Hanwei
Xiang Yun
Introduce Best Supporting Role
7 Herman Keh Announce Best Supporting Actor Winner
8 Jeanette Aw
Fann Wong
Zoe Tay
Huang Biren
Joanne Peh
Top 10 Male Artiste
9 Jam Hsiao Top 10 Female Artiste
10 Sammi Cheng Best Actor & Actress
Performers
Star Awards 2023 - Industry Achievement Awards (March 30, 2023)
Name(s) Role
Kele
Daryl Ann
Performed Love at First Bite Theme Song
Kiki Lim
Tasha Low
Performed Genie in a Cup Theme Song
Ze Liang
Gao Meigui
AWWA Kids
Performed You Can Be An Angel S4 Theme Song
Benjamin Tan
Edwin Goh
Performed When Duty Calls S2 Theme Song
Juin Teh
Seow Sinee
Jernelle Oh
Performed Your World in Mine Theme Song
Star Awards 2023 - Main
Most Popular Rising Star Nominees Performed 《Start It》
Best Evergreen Artiste Nominees Performed 《夜空中最亮的星》
Rebecca Lim
Felicia Chin
Performed 《Thousand Hands》
Jam Hsiao 萧敬腾 Performed 《皮囊》《王妃》

《只能想念你》《好想对你说》

Sammi Cheng 郑秀文 Performed《恰似你的温柔》

Ceremony Information

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The ceremony had broken several traditions in the past, as some Professional award categories were presented on 30 March, 11 days prior to the main award ceremony. Like in a statement issued by Mediacorp, the ceremony follows a hybrid between ceremony and concert to emphasize the entertainment industry, hence the move of some of the awards during the actual day. On 9 March, the hosts were announced while the guest performers include Jam Hsiao and Sammi Cheng.[18][19]

The Best Newcomer award was renamed to "Best Rising Star" (最佳潜力星), and a new voting award named "Most Popular Rising Star Award" (最受欢迎潜力星), along with similar eligibility requirements for the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes, aimed for artistes with no more than five years of career experience (as of 1 January 2022) was introduced. The criteria for the "All-Time Favourite Artiste" was also modified such that wins for the "Most Popular Rising Star Award" will count towards the cumulative total of 10 needed to be conferred the "All-Time Favourite Artiste" award. The Top 10 Most Popular Artistes also had an unlimited number of nominations along with similar criteria of the former, with artistes of at least five years of experience.

The Best Short-Form Drama Series 最佳短篇戏剧, "Perfect Combo 最合拍搭档" and "Most Attention Seeking New-gen Host 最强镜新晋主持人", was not presented this year.

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The revisions to the Top 10 Most Popular Category have aroused controversy because the category will no longer be limited to its regular 20 Male and Female performers; instead, the category will nominate every artist who had contributed to Singaporean television in the past year. The rules and conditions for this year's Top 10 Most Popular Artistes award were extensively open to people who had contributed not only in Mediacorp Television, but also in Mediacorp Radio Broadcasting. Anyone with more than five years of experience in screen acting and/or screen/audio hosting as of January 1, 2022 and who meets at least one of the following requirements is eligible:[20]

  • In at least one eligible programme and had played the lead or were the major host.
  • In at least three eligible programmes and had played a supporting part or hosted an episode.
  • Appears in 30 episodes across all eligible programmes.

New regulations conceal vulnerabilities

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Artistes that have only appeared in one drama series as a lead role may also be nominated in this category. Examples are "Sisters Stand Tall", where Malaysian actress "Jojo Goh" and Chinese actress "Jin Meng Yang Zi" were nominated for the award as well, despite not being under Mediacorp staff. Majority of the nominees of the Top 10 popularity awards were radio DJs as well, as they can be nominated just by being the host of an eligible radio programme. However, DJ "Kimberly Wang" from the English radio station 987FM was also nominated for this category.[20][10]

Notes

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  1. ^ Backstage Creative Awards were presented outside the award ceremony with the Best Screenplay winner Dark Angel, written by Bai Xue Ning, and Wang Xiu Si, the Best Director goes to Martin Chan for In Safe Hands, Liang Xue Hui from It's A Small World 2022 won the award for Best variety research writer, and Kang Lay See won the Best Variety Producer award for Dishing with Chris Lee[7]

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