Star Awards 2013

Star Awards 2013 (Chinese: 红星大奖 2013) was a double television award ceremony held in Singapore. It is part of the annual Star Awards organised by Mediacorp for the two free-to-air channels, Mediacorp Channel 8 and Mediacorp Channel U. Star Awards 2013 was broadcast live on Channel 8, on 21 April 2013 and 28 April 2013. The first ceremony was held at the Mediacorp TV Theatre while the second ceremony was held at the Marina Bay Sands. The ceremonies were also broadcast on 8 International and the second ceremony on Astro AEC & Astro Quan Jia HD for the first time in HD.^[1]

20 programs (eight dramas, nine variety/info-ed, and three current affair programs) won at least one award, the largest representation of programs with one awards tying the last year's ceremony's count. Best Drama Serial Pillow Talk won only one award, its lowest count of awards for a winning Drama Serial, while Unriddle 2 won the most awards for the ceremony with five (two were from the big four major acting categories, and three from Show 1). Joys of Life won three awards out of the largest count of nominations for the ceremony (13), all awarded from Show 1. Only two variety/info-ed programs won multiple awards, which were the third season's Find Me A Singaporean and the last year's Star Awards ceremony, the latter retaining the three-year winning streak for Best Variety Special.

This was the second ceremony since 2007 to not present the All-Time Favourite Artiste, in its place was the newly introduced Honorary TV Award. This is currently the last ceremony to date where awards for "Best News Presenter" and "Best Current Affairs Presenter" were presented, ending a tradition that began in 2000.

Programme details

Notes

• Representatives listed are only applicable to the awarded title, and need not be mentioned in the Hall of Fame.
• ¹ A representative will collect the award in place of the nominee.
• Unless otherwise stated, the winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.

Show 1

The first show, titled "亮闪八方" (Shining Light) was broadcast on 21 April 2013 at the Mediacorp Studios at Caldecott Hill.

In place of the usual opener, artistes and nominated backstage personnel were directly ushered to their seats on Show 1, in view of a special tribute for late television icon Huang Wenyong, who died the previous day. A five-minute segment begins with host Lee Teng delivering his eulogy, then 30 seconds of silence^[2] was observed, and a video of his contributions was played.^[3] The show later opened after a commercial break at 7.08 pm.

Professionally judged awards

Awards eligible for voting

Rocket award

Viewership awards

Show 2

The second show was broadcast on 28 April 2013 at the Marina Bay Sands Grand Theatre.

Professionally judged awards

Awards eligible for voting

Special award

The Honorary TV award is introduced as a special achievement award given out posthumously to past artiste(s) to honour contributions made to the local TV industry. The wife and daughter of Huang Wenyong represented the late television icon to receive the Honorary TV Award in recognition of his contributions to Singapore's television industry.^[4]

Top 10 awards

Similar to previous ceremonies, The Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes and Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes will be decided by telepoll and online voting; each carrying a 50% weightage towards the final result. The telepoll lines was announced and opened on 15 March 2013, and would run until 28 April at 8.30 pm. The temporary results (Top n) are not publicized on TV but through the Toggle Now app, which users can download from the App Store or Google Play.

The nominees are listed in telepoll line order. The results of the Top 10 awards are not in rank order.^[5][6]

² Proceeds from the "Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes" calls for Huang Wenyong will be donated to HCA Hospice.

³ Xiang Yun represented Huang to collect the award.

Post show party awards

Summary of nominations and awards (by programme genre)

Most nominations

Programs that received multiple nominations are listed below, by number of nominations per work:

Most wins

Presenters and performers

The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Show 1

Show 2

Ceremony information

The day before the first show, Huang Wenyong died of lymphoma, and a eulogy was presented before the show 1 began.^[2] The following ceremony a week after, after Huang was posthumously awarded the Honorary TV Award by acting cabinet minister (and later as Prime Minister) Lawrence Wong, given as representation to his wife and daughter Wenwen, the show announced that any votes cast for Huang from the "Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes" calls will proceed donations to HCA Hospice. Prior to the announcement that Huang would win its second and the other Top 10 since 2011, several shouts of Huang could be heard as only one award was left to be given out. Representative Xiang Yun praised the viewers live and thanked them for voting, and mentioned that nominations for the Top 10 are not easy and are fiercely fought throughout each year; Xiang told that it was Huang's final award, and encouraged the viewers on appreciation to a certain character through love and esteem, which received a standing ovation.^[7] This was the only time where the award was presented to date; the award did not return in 2019, although there was a tribute to one artiste, Aloysius Pang, who had died earlier on 23 January that year.^[8][9]

The opening monologue by Young Artiste recipient Tan Jun Sheng and Jia Jia was also well praised by media, which brought several references in the current trends of 2013, including a cold open of Tan parodying Yam Ah Mee, then-returning officer at the time, and several celebrity gossips, including John Quek's announcer role. After Guo Liang and Quan Yifeng were introduced on stage, the hosts praised the artistes on their potential before the children return backstage; Guo even lampshade the awards being a "junior spin-off" and starting an official "adult version".^[10]

Consecutive nominees and awardees, firsts in Top 10

• The nominees for the "Best Current Affairs Presenter" award are the same throughout four consecutive years from 2010 to 2013. Two awardees received the award consecutively twice from 2012, and Chun Guek Lay was being awarded for the second consecutive time.
  • A rule revision in 2014 revised the criteria that the award will only be presented if a quota (of 10 nominations minimum) is fulfilled for that particular category; due to this change, three categories will be suspended in the following ceremony, namely "Best Newcomer" (now Best Rising Star), "Best News Presenter" and "Best Current Affairs Presenter".
    • Although the Channel 8 News & Current Affairs had at least ten presenters at the end of 2014, this year was currently the last time both the "Best News Presenter" and "Best Current Affairs Presenter" had been presented as of . However, "Best Newcomer" will be presented again in 2015, with the exception for 2016, 2017 and 2022.
• Rui En was awarded the Most Favourite Female Character award for the third consecutive year. En and Elvin Ng were, for their second consecutive year, awarded the Most Favourite Onscreen Couple award.
• Bryan Wong was awarded the Most Favourite Variety Show Host award for the second consecutive year.
• This was the first time Belinda Lee and Lee Teng were awarded the Top 10 Most Popular Female and Male Artistes award, respectively.
  • Dai Xiangyu received his second Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award since 2010.
• The second season of Unriddle become the sixth drama to receive multiple nominations for the Best Drama Serial.

Accolades

The 2013 ceremony won all three nominations, which were Best Set Design, Best Variety Research Writer and Best Variety Special, on the following ceremony next year; for the latter it was Star Awards fifth win for the Best Variety Special, and the fourth consecutive time on doing so.

See also

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

References

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2. ^ "Huang Wenyong's death casts pall over Star Awards show". The Straits Times. 22 April 2013.
3. ^ Han, Wei Chou; Lam, Evelyn; Leong, Wai Kit (21 April 2013). "Star Awards pays tribute to Huang Wenyong amid outpouring of grief". Channel NewsAsia.
4. ^ "Huang Wenyong to be honoured with special award at 'Star Awards 2013 Show 2'". TODAY. 22 April 2013.
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8. ^ "Dasmond Koh: "Aloysius Pang's Voice Was There Throughout The Tribute"". 15 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
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