Star Awards 2019 (also SA25, Chinese: 红星大奖25) 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》(lit. "Starlight").[citation needed]

Star Awards 25
红星大奖25
Sponsored byBioskin (Presenter)
Chan Brothers
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Mercedes-Benz (Official Car)
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KFC Singapore
Bee Cheng Hiang
Dream Cruises
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Courts Singapore
DateWalk Of Fame &
Awards Ceremony

14 April 2019
LocationMES Theatre @ Mediacorp (Awards Ceremony)
CountrySingapore
Hosted byCreative Achievement Awards
Quan Yi Fong 权怡凤
Desmond Ng 黄振隆
Walk-of-fame:
Lee Teng 李腾
Gao Meigui 高美贵
Hazelle Teo 张颖双
Awards Ceremony
Quan Yi Fong 权怡凤
Post-show Party
Henry Law 刘宇恒
Kenneth Chung 钟坤华
Hazelle Teo 张颖双
Highlights
Most awardsA Million Dollar Dream 给我一百万
Blessings 2 祖先保佑2 (3 each)
Most nominationsBlessings 2 祖先保佑2 (8)
A Million Dollar Dream 给我一百万 (6)
Best Drama SerialBlessings 2 祖先保佑2
Best Variety ShowGeTai Challenge 2018 歌台星力量 兴旺发
Former AwardsAll-time Favourite Artiste:
Kym Ng 鐘琴
Special Achievement Award:
Chew Chor Meng 周初明
Television/radio coverage
NetworkMediacorp Channel 8
Mediacorp Channel U
Toggle
YouTube
Runtime180 mins (Awards Ceremony)
60 mins (Walk-of-fame/Post Party)
← 2018 (24) · Star Awards · 2021 (26) →

Two dramas which received the top two highest nominations, Blessings 2 (eight) and A Million Dollar Dream (six), 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 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》 (lit. Recap of Star Awards 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.[1]

Programme details edit

Date Shows Time Network
14 April 2019 Star Awards 2019 - Artiste Preparation 3.00 pm to 5.30 pm Toggle
Star Awards 2019 - Walk of fame 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm Mediacorp Channel 8
Mediacorp Channel U
Toggle
YouTube
6.00 pm to 7.00 pm Astro Xi Yue HD
Star Awards 2019– Backstage Interviews 6.30 pm to 10.00 pm Toggle
Star Awards 2019– Awards Ceremony 7.00 pm to 10.00 pm Mediacorp Channel 8
Mediacorp Channel U
Astro Xi Yue HD
Toggle
YouTube
Star Awards 2019– Post-show Party 10.00 pm to 11.00 pm Toggle
21 April 2019
(Encore Telecast)
Star Awards 2019– Walk of fame 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm Mediacorp Channel 8
Star Awards 2019 - Awards Ceremony 3.30 pm to 6.30 pm Mediacorp Channel 8
27 & 28 January 2020 11.00am 8TV Malaysia

Winners and nominees edit

Creative Achievement Awards edit

On 28 March 2019, the 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.[2][3] Tham Loke Kheng, CEO of MediaCorp, gave out the Awards to the recipients.

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.

Best Screenplay 最佳剧本[4]
  • Lau Ching Poon 刘清盆 – 29th February 229明天见
    • Rebecca Leow 洪汐 – Say Cheese 西瓜甜不甜
    • Tang Yeow 陈耀 – Mind Matters 心。情
    • Tang Yeow 陈耀 – Blessings 2 祖先保佑2
    • Cheong Yan Peng 张彦平 – Babies On Board 新生
Best Variety Research Writer 最佳综艺资料撰稿[4]
  • Loong Li Li 龙俐利 – Taste of Love 两代美味关系
    • Teo Kim Kee 张琴棋 – Taste of Nanyang 翻乡找味
    • Wong Eng Hong 王应鸿 – Home Dining 开门见餐
    • Rachel Han Xinru 韩欣如 – GeTai Challenge 2018 歌台星力量 兴旺发
    • Yu Jiazheng 游佳铮 – SPOP SING! - Grand Final SPOP听我唱!- 大决赛
Best Variety Producer 最佳综艺编导[4]
  • Khow Hwai Teng 邱慧婷 – Star Awards 2018 红星大奖2018
    • Gan Bee Khim 颜美琴
    • Kang Lay See 江丽丝
    • Glen Lim 林祥平
Best Director 最佳导演[4]
  • Doreen Yap Pei Kiang 叶佩娟 – Blessings 2 祖先保佑2
    • Koh Siew Hui 高秀慧 – VIC 维多利亚的魔力
    • Loo Yin Kam 卢燕金 – Babies On Board 新生
    • Loh Woon Woon 罗温温 – The Distance Between 下个路口遇见你
    • Png Keh Hock 方傢福 – Fifty and Fabulous 五零高手

Star Awards edit

The Nominees were announced on 8 February 2019.

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.[5][6]

Best Drama Serial 最佳戏剧
  • Blessings 2 祖先保佑2
Best Short-Form Drama Serial 最佳短篇戏剧
  • Love At Cavenagh Bridge 加文纳桥的约定
    • Die Die Also Must Serve 战备好兄弟
    • Doppelganger - The Prequel 入侵者前传
    • Love Across the Causeway 对面的女孩
    • Till We Meet Again – Prequel 千年来说对不起之前传
Best Variety Programme 最佳综艺节目
  • GeTai Challenge 2018 歌台星力量 兴旺发
    • By Your Side 谢谢你不离不弃
    • Dennis Uncovers 周公找茶
    • Taste of Love 两代美味关系
    • Thrift Hunters 我赚到了!
Best Short-Form Variety Programme 最佳短篇综艺节目
  • Workman Diaries 我的打拚日记
    • At Your Service 明星@Your Service
    • Away With My BFF 老友出走记
    • Demystifying TV 戏,不是这样拍的!
    • Odd-upation 奇异特工
Best Variety Special 最佳综艺特备节目
  • SPOP SING! - Grand Final SPOP听我唱!- 大决赛
    • Community Chest Charity TV Show 2018 公益关爱相助35年
    • GeTai Challenge 2018 Grand Final 歌台星力量 兴-旺-发 大决赛
    • Lunar New Year's Eve Special 2018 阿狗狗旺旺过好年
    • Star Awards 2018 红星大奖 2018
Best Info-Ed Programme 最佳资讯节目
  • Business As Usual 买卖
    • Fixer 2 线人2
    • Forgotten Youths 边缘青年
    • Tuesday Report - #myconnectionsg2 情牵新马2
    • Tuesday Report - When The Bell Rings 2 钟声响起2
Best Actor 最佳男主角
Best Actress 最佳女主角
Best Supporting Actor 最佳男配角
Best Supporting Actress 最佳女配角
Best Programme Host 最佳综艺及资讯节目主持人
Young Talent Award 青苹果奖
  • Natalie Mae Tan 陈宥蒽 - Blessings 2 祖先保佑2 as Bao Zhu 宝珠
    • Ethan Ng Kai En 黄凯恩 - Eat Already? 4 吃饱没?4 as Oliver
    • Ivan Lo Kai Jun 卢楷浚 - Mind Matters 心。情 as Fang Zhixing 方智星
    • Jaylynn Lim Hui Xin 林慧欣 You Can Be An Angel 3 你也可以是天使3 as An An 安安
    • Tay Kay Zer Cruz 郑凯泽 Dream Walker 梦行者 as Small Daren 小狄伦
Best Theme Song 最佳主题曲
  • Kelvin Tan 陈伟联 — You Can Be An Angel 3 你也可以是天使3 -《守护你的善良》
    • Lin Yuting 林玉婷 and Wu Jia Ming 吴佳明 - Blessings 2 祖先保佑2 -《月华》
    • Boon Hui Lu 文慧如 - Mind Matters 心。情 -《给我一个》
    • The Freshman 插班生 - Reach for the Skies 不平凡的平凡 -《和你交换你的不安》
    • Ling Kai 铃凯 - VIC 维多利亚的模力 -《Watch Me》
Best Newcomer 最佳新人
Evergreen Artiste Award 常青演绎奖

Special Awards edit

The All-Time Favourite Artiste is a special achievement award given out to artiste(s) who have achieved a maximum of 10 popularity awards over 10 years.

All-Time Favourite Artiste
超级红星
Kym Ng 鐘琴 1998 | 1999 | 2006 | 2007 | 2012 | 2013 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018
Special Achievement Award
特别成就奖
Chew Chor Meng 周初明

Top 10 Most Popular Artistes edit

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.

  Females
  Males
Italic New to list (not nominated the previous year)
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 edit

Presenters and performers edit

Creative Achievement Awards Ceremony

Name(s) Role
Doreen Yeoh (Chief Content Officer) Presenter of the judges segment in the Creative Achievement Award
Tham Loke Kheng 谭乐琼 (CEO of MediaCorp) 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(s) 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 (from left to right):
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 (Minister of Education) 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(s) 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》 (Star Awards Theme Song) (Original singers)
Bonnie Loo 罗美仪 
Desmond Ng 黄振隆
Performed《每天为你唱歌》(from How Are You?/Ho Seh Bo?)
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 (in order):
  • 《月华》(from Blessings 2 祖先保佑2)
  • 《给我一个》(from Mind Matters 心。情)
  • 《Watch Me》(from VIC 维多利亚的模力)
  • 《守护你的善良》(from You Can Be An Angel 3 你也可以是天使3)
  • 《和你交换你的不安》(from Reach for the Skies 不平凡的平凡)
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
Performed 《小人物的心声》in memoriam to Aloysius Pang
Eric Chou 周兴哲 Performed 《如果雨之后》and《怎么了》
All SPOP Sing! finalists Performed 《星光》

Ceremony edit

The show opens with a cold open containing references to nominations for Best Drama Serial starring Quan Yi Fong (first watching a video snippet from VIC), who time-traveled back to 1918 (referencing Blessings 2) and phone-calling three other characters (from Say Cheese, You Can Be An Angel 3 and A Million Dollar Dream, in order of appearance) before recalling how the main protagonist returning to her own time (by throwing a rock and sunk along with her) and arrived at the stage to begin the show. After the opening, Quan brought references from past ceremonies while asking celebrities (in order of appearance, 1994 (Hosts Chen Shucheng and Yvette Tsui, as well as Fann Wong and Christopher Lee's dialogues), 2014 (Quan tripped while making her way to receive her award) and 2015 (Jeanette Aw's fall before accepting her All-Time Favourite Artiste), followed by Marcus Chin parodying the Love 97.2FM's theme tune while asking whether any celebrities can recall the 1994 theme tune).

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,[7] with open auditions to commence on 4 and 12 May.[8][9] The segment ends with a teaser featuring the first season winner Zoe Tay.[10][11]

Changes to award categories edit

The Best Short-form Drama Serial and Best Short-form Variety Programme were introduced this year to highlight short series (usually web series from Toggle) 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.

Tribute to Aloysius Pang edit

A segment was dedicated to Aloysius Pang who died during military training earlier on 23 January. The Honorary TV Award, an award presented to artistes posthumously, was not awarded to Pang. Producer Elaine See later explained that the decision for the Honorary TV Award was not "intentional" and it was different from the circumstances from Huang Wenyong, who had received nominations prior to his death.[12]

Accolade edit

Star Awards 2019 won the Best Variety Special in the 2021 ceremony, making it the eighth win for the category.

Award Accolade Result
Star Awards 2021
红星大奖2021
Best Variety Special
最佳综艺特备节目
Won

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