Star Awards 2016

Star Awards 2016 (also SA2016, Chinese: 红星大奖2016) 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 channels Channels 8 and U. SA2016 was broadcast live on 17 April 2016 and 24 April 2016. Technical awards were not presented 'live' on TV.

Programme details

Backstage achievement awards

These technical awards were done in an off-site presentation ceremony on 21 March 2016, and snippets of it were shown on the third episode of the prelude on 15 April 2016.

Show 1

^1 The Best Evergreen Artiste Award is a new award.

^2 The Best Programme Host is a merger of two awards: Best Variety Show Host and Best Info-Ed Programme Host. It is given in honour of a Mediacorp host who has delivered an outstanding performance in a variety show or info-ed programme.

Special Awards

^3 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 BOLD.

Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes

The Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes are decided by telepoll and online voting. The results combine 50% telepoll voting and 50% online voting. The telepoll lines were announced on 3 March 2015 in a press conference at Mandarin Orchard Singapore, along with the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes. Results are counted from 4 March to 17 April. Voting hotline for the top 10 awards will end at 8:30 pm on 17 April.

The nominees are listed in telepoll line order. The results of the Top 10 awards are not in any rank order.

Show 2

The nominees and representative titles are listed in alphabetical name order, unless otherwise stated.

^4 A representative collected the award in place of the nominee.

Special Awards

Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes

Like the Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes, the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes are decided by telepoll and online voting. The results combine 50% telepoll voting and 50% online voting. Results are counted from 4 March to 24 April.

The nominees are listed in telepoll line order. The results of the Top 10 awards are not in any rank order.

Post Show Party

^5 A representative collected the award in place of the nominee.

^6 Rui En left after the award ceremony due to her gastric problem. Hence, she was not there to collect the award personally.

Statistics

Only shows with multiple nominations and/or at least one win are shown. BOLD represents award wins. Shows in number of nominations, release date and type order.

Presenters and performers

The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.^[1][2]

Show 1

Presenters

Performers

Show 2

Presenters

Performers

Ceremony information

Nominees for the 22nd instalment of Star Awards were announced on 1 February 2016. First-time nominees included Bonnie Loo, Edwin Goh, Ian Fang, Romeo Tan, Sheila Sim and Ya Hui. The online Favourite award categories were held for the final time, with Jeanette Aw nominated again for Favourite Female Character and Favourite Onscreen Couple (Drama). She won six voting-based awards in Show 1 last year, including three Most Popular Regional Artiste Awards, Social Media Award and Favourite Female Character award for her role in The Journey: Tumultuous Times. Aw expressed a wish to be removed from the voting,^[4] but she was not removed from the voting list. Mediacorp says that as these awards are determined by online voting, so she still had to participate.

There was a change in lineup of the awards streamlined to 19 categories. Noting that hosts usually present both the variety and info-ed programmes and their similar presentation styles, and that the Best Variety Show Host and Best Info-Ed Programme Host awards have similar requirements, Mediacorp decided to merge both awards into a new category named 'Best Programme Host'. There is also a new category for drama series veterans called the 'Best Evergreen Artiste', and technical awards were done in an off-site presentation ceremony for the first time since 2009.^[5][6][7]

The names of the Top 20 Most Popular Male and Female Artistes contenders were revealed on 3 March 2016. With the induction of Qi Yuwu and Rui En into the All-Time Favourite Artiste Hall-of-Fame,^{[8][9][10][11]} as well as the exit of Dasmond Koh, Desmond Tan, Ian Fang, Lin Pei Fen, Lin Meijiao, Marcus Chin, Priscelia Chan, Terence Cao and Tracy Lee, there were 11 new or returning faces in total. Aloysius Pang, Chua En Lai, Jeffrey Xu and Sheila Sim were nominated for the first time, while Aileen Tan, Chen Tianwen, Jesseca Liu, Pan Lingling, Kate Pang, Zhang Yaodong and Zhang Zhenhuan returned to the list after their absence last year or earlier. In particular, Chen of the "Unbelievable" fame was last nominated for the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artiste award in 2002, the longest absence by any returning artiste so far. Liu, who last won the Top 10 Most Popular Female Artiste award in 2010 and left to join HIM International Music after her contract with Mediacorp expired, recently signed a new acting contract with Mediacorp last year, making her eligible to qualify for the award. The telepoll lines were announced later at a press conference at Mandarin Orchard Singapore, and voting for the Top 10 awards opened the following day at 12 noon.^{[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]} The lineup of the awards was also revealed, with Part 1 consisting of mostly variety/info-ed award categories, Part 2 with mostly drama award categories and the Post-show Party having online voting award categories.

The nominees for the Toggle Most Beloved Celebrity BFF Award category was the last to be revealed.^{[19][20][21][22]}

Julie Tan walked home with three awards: Rocket Award, Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes and Best Supporting Actress. Ge Tai Challenge and The Dream Makers II were the biggest winners of the ceremony, with the latter sweeping every drama award in Part 2 (apart from Favourite Male Character, which it was not nominated; and Top Rated Drama Serial). Unexpectedly, Paige Chua, Pornsak, Romeo Tan and Shaun Chen were left out in the Top 10 awards. In their places were first-time winners Jayley Woo, Aloysius Pang and Jeffrey Xu; as well as Jesseca Liu, Dennis Chew, Zhang Yaodong, Zhang Zhenhuan and Zheng Geping, who neither were nominated nor won last year. Joanne Peh, Quan Yi Fong and Elvin Ng graduate to All-Time Favourite Artistes next year, while Best Actress winner Jeanette Aw went on to win Favourite Female Character and Favourite Onscreen Couple (Drama) with Qi Yuwu for The Dream Makers II, debunking the myth of which no one could win Best Actress and Favourite Female Character simultaneously for the same role.

Trivia

Awards categories

• Bioskin Flawless Skin Award will also be first given out this year.
• This is the first known year where the representative titles for Best Theme Song and Best Drama Serial are the same.

Other trivia

• Part 1, Part 2 and Post-Show Party are the second, third and fourth 'live' variety specials in Mandarin respectively to be held at the Theatre@Mediacorp, after Lions Charity Show 2016.

Controversy

• Professional and programme awards will only be given out when there are at least 10 candidates from 2014 onwards. Even though Channel 8 News & Current Affairs already had at least ten news presenters by the end of 2015, the Best News Presenter award, which was suspended along with the Best Current Affairs Presenter award, unfortunately did not return for the third consecutive time.

See also

• List of variety and infotainment programmes broadcast by MediaCorp Channel 8
• Mediacorp Channel 8
• Star Awards

References