Star Awards 2021 (Chinese: 红星大奖2021) is a television award ceremony that was held in Singapore on 18 April 2021. The ceremony honoured the best Singaporean television released between January 2019 and December 2020. The ceremony was originally scheduled for April 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mediacorp announced that the ceremony would be postponed for a year until 2021.
Period drama A Quest to Heal won five awards including Best Drama Serial, Best Lead and Supporting Actors, Best Theme Song, and Best Director, the last of which was awarded in an unaired Backstage Achievement Award. Other winners include Zoe Tay of My Guardian Angels and Kym Ng of Daybreak, who won Best Lead and Supporting Actresses respectively, the former breaking a winning record of four wins. The drama with the most nominations, A Jungle Survivor, won only one award, with Zhang Ze Tong clinching the Best Newcomer. In the Variety category, Star Awards reclaimed a record-breaking eighth win for a Variety Special while Hear U Out became the biggest winner for a variety program with two.
In popularity awards, Dasmond Koh was named the year's All-Time Favourite Artiste. Dennis Chew and Zheng Geping won their tenth Top 10 Most Favourite Artiste, while Marcus Chin, Hong Ling and Bonnie Loo won their first Top 10.
The ceremony also drew several controversies, notably on the results for the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes after Felicia Chin fell short on winning her tenth award, as well as social distancing measures leading to Mediacorp clarifying about the measures taken.
Programme details DateShowsTimeChannelsCountryRemarks18 April 2021Live Commentary 3.30 pm to 10.30 pm meWatch (Singapore) Live Telecast Walk-of-fameAwards Ceremony5.00 to 6.30pm7:00pm to 10:00pm Mediacorp Channel 8Mediacorp Channel UmeWatchYouTube Astro Channel 338(Malaysia) 25 April 2021 2.00pm to 3.30pm 3.30pm to 6.30pm Mediacorp Channel 8(Singapore) Repeat Telecast 31 January 2022 Awards Ceremony 5.00pm 8TV (Malaysia) Repeat Telecast (CNY Special)
Nominees and winners
Awards The nominees were announced on 4 February 2021. Winners are listed first, followed by boldface.
A Quest to Heal A Jungle Survivor All Is Well-Singapore C.L.I.F. 5 Day Break Hello From the Other Side My One In A Million The Breakfast Quartet Little City, Big Matters Morning Fanatics Mr Zhou's Ghosts Stories The Night Is Young Yeah! From Beijing to Moscow A World of Difference Best Friends Forever Hello From The Other Side – It's Time Interns' Survivors Guide Tiles War Walk With Me – Stories of Us Hear U Out Ah Boy To Dad Friend or Foe? Prank It Pressing Issues Thumbs Up! Senior – Takeover What's for Lunch? – Lunch Talk King of Culinary Ah Gong Can Cook Beyond The Cameras Hawker Academy House Everything? The Destined One Yi Fong & Elanor's Kitchen Fixer S3 A Medical Journey Be My Guest S2 Forbidding No More Tuesday Report: A Hill and A River Tuesday Report: Home Away From Home Tuesday Report: One Metre Apart
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Star Awards 2019 LNY Eve Special 2020 Sian Chay Bonding With Love Charity Show 2019 SPD CHarity Show 2019 Star Search 2019 – Grand Final Jones Shi and Ling Kai – A Quest to Heal 《乱》 Nicky Lee – All Is Well-Singapore 《人间失格》 Misi Ke – Beijing To Moscow 《失去什么》 The Freshmen – Best Friends Forever 《好爱你lah》 Bonnie Loo – Heart To Heart 《幸福茶点》 Boon Hui Lu – Loving You 《同行》 Jarrell Huang and JJ Neo – My One In A Million 《就是你，就是你》Qi Yuwu – A Quest to Heal as Bi Zheng Chen Han Wei – Super Dad as Chen Kai Elvin Ng – All Is Well Taiwan as Eric Loke Pierre Png – A Jungle Survivor as Jiang Yongxi Desmond Tan – All Is Well Singaporeas Wu Pinrui Romeo Tan – Happy Prince as Wang Zile Zhang Yao Dong – Day Break as Zheng Weilong Zoe Tay – My Guardian Angels as Mandy See Chen Liping – How Are You? as Dai Anna Felicia Chin – A Jungle Survivor as Olivia Rebecca Lim – A Jungle Survivor as Tang Ruo Qi Kym Ng – My Guardian Angels as Wu Miao Miao Rui En – Hello From The Other Side as Ma Ruyin Carrie Wong – A Quest to Heal as Luo Mingyi Bryan Wong – A Quest to Heal as Sun Xi Brandon Wong – Hello From The Other Side as Lao Ma Chen Shu Cheng – Old Is Gold as Zhou Renfa Darren Lim – While You Were Away as Yu Guanming Guo Liang – A Jungle Survivor as Titan Ian Fang – All Is Well Singapore as Li Hao James Seah – C.L.I.F. 5 as Lu Jiahao Kym Ng - Day Break as Zhang Tianqing Aileen Tan – Hello Miss Driver as Zheng Xueqin Bonnie Loo - C.L.I.F. 5 as Lu Kexin Chantalle Ng – Terror Within as Lin Xiaoyu Cynthia Koh – After The Stars as Zhen Mei Lin Mei Jiao - After The Stars as Zhang Lan Lina Ng - Terror Within as Lin Xiuhong Zhang Zetong - A Jungle Survivor as Zhong Jianting Benjamin Tan – My Guardian Angels as Tang Guiqiang Herman Keh – Interns' Survivor Guide as Focus Juin Teh – Interns' Survivor Guide as Juliet Ke Le – Ah Gong Can Cook Seow Sin Nee - Hawker Academy Sheryl Ang - All Around You as He Ruohua Goh Wee An – C.L.I.F. 5 as Xiao Huiwen Alfred Ong - Terror Within as Zeng Yang Yang Audrey Gabrielle Soh - Super Dad as Chole Ethan Ng Kai En – Happy Prince as Young Zile Ivan Lo – How Are You? as Dai Zhengxiong Natalie Mae Tan U-En – My Guardian Angels as Aelyn Xie Ning Nicholas Lim Tao Rui - All Is Well Singapore as Xiao Ji Jin Yinji Chen Shu Cheng Marcus Chin Richard Low Wang Yuqing Xiang Yun Zhu Hou Ren Quan Yi Fong – Hear U Out Cavin Soh – King of Culinary Chen Han Wei – House Everything? Guo Liang – The Destined One Kym Ng – Ah Gong Can Cook Quan Yi Fong – Yi Fong and Eleanor's Kitchen Tung Soo Hua – Be My Guest S2
Drama series with multiple awards and nominations The following Series received two or more awards and nominations:
Multiple Awards Awards Drama Series 4 A Quest To Heal 我的女侠罗明依
Multiple NominationsNominationsDrama Series6A Jungle Survivor 森林生存记5A Quest To Heal 我的女侠罗明依All Is Well (Singapore) 你那边怎样，我这边OK4C.L.I.F. 5My Guardian Angels 单翼天使3Day Break 天空渐渐亮Hello From The Other Side 阴错阳差Terror Within 内颤2My One In A Million 我的万里挑一Super Dad 男神不败Happy Prince 快乐王子How Are You? 好世谋？After The Stars 攻星计Interns' Survivor Guide 实习生的生存记
Programmes with multiple awards and nominations The following Programmes received two or more awards and nominations:
Multiple Awards Awards Programme 2Hear U Out 权听你说
Multiple NominationsNominationsProgrammes3Ah Gong Can Cook 阿公来做饭2King of Culinary 三把刀House Everything 家简尘除Yi Fong and Eleanor's Kitchen 怡凤和妹妹的厨房Be My Guest S2 我。董。你。2The Destined One 众里寻一 2Hear U Out 权听你说
Sponsored awards Bioskin Most Charismatic Artiste Award, alongside Best Theme Song and Best Radio Programme, are awards eligible via online voting. Voting began on 10 March and ended on 9 April at 11.59pm.
The Best Radio Programme was introduced in this year Star Awards to honor the best in local radio
The results are announced on the Walk-of-fame. Romeo Tan Desmond Tan Ian Fang Pierre Png Qi Yuwu
Special awards Dasmond Koh 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2007 | 2012 | 2013 | 2015 | 2018 | 2019
Top 10 Most Popular Artists The top 10 nominations were announced on 9 March 2021 with several changes, with 60 artistes (30 of each gender) compete via a popular vote for the Top 10; for the first time in Star Awards history, there will be no televoting.
50% of the votes are determined by online voting, while the other 50% are based on the initial polling results of 1,000 people representing a wide demographic across Singapore's population, conducted independently by an accredited market research company.
With the combination of both years of ceremonies, 2020 and 2021, scores for both years for eligible artistes will be averaged by two; if the artiste is only eligible on either 2020 or 2021, only the scores that are tabulated on the eligible year is counted; artistes who are eligible in 2020 will only have their scores in 2020 tabulated; the reverse is true for artistes eligible only in 2021.
Voting began on 10 March, 12:00pm and ended on 18 April, 8:00pm, during the ceremony. Additionally, each user was limited to one vote per day, but the restriction was lifted to allow unlimited voting during the final three hours of voting.
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.
Artistes Top 10Ann Kok 9Bonnie Loo 1Carrie Wong 6Hong Ling 1Jesseca Liu 8Jin Yinji 2Paige Chua 6Rebecca Lim 9Ya Hui 5Yvonne Lim 8
Artistes Top 10Chen Shu Cheng 2Dennis Chew 10Desmond Tan 5Guo Liang 6Marcus Chin 1Pierre Png 4Pornsak 9Romeo Tan 6Shaun Chen 4Zheng Ge Ping 10
Ceremony information The Star Awards 2021 centralized the theme of Connect (星起点), symbolizing the role media companies and other industry partners played in engaging television audiences during the previous year's COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore.
Event details Event schedule Nominees Announcement: 4 February 2021 Top 10 Nominees Announcement: 9 March 2021 Walk-of-Fame, Awards Ceremony: 18 April 2021
Awards trivia This is the first time since 2014 whereas the award ceremony was held outside Mediacorp studios, this time at the Jewel Changi Airport and on Terminal 4. Not counting double awards shows (with the first show held at the studios and a second show at another location), this is the first time since 2006 to have this situation organically. Due to the expanded period of eligibility (see Impact of the COVID–19 pandemic below), this is the second ceremony to have more than the typical five nominations for most of the awards categories (except Best Radio Programme and Best Entertainment Special), with seven nominations. This was previously used in the 2009 ceremony where each category have six nominations due to the revision of the eligibility period. Coincidentally, both ceremonies' preceding year do not have a ceremony. This is also the third ceremony overall to have an increase of the usual number of nominations (20) for the Top 10 Most Popular Artiste award, with 30. The first two ceremonies with an increase were in 2011 (21) and 2017 (24).
Consecutive and records in award categories, first in Top 10 Zoe Tay surpassed Fann Wong's count for the number of nominations for the Best Actress, with 14. She also broke a record for the most number of wins with four, surpassing Huang Biren, Ivy Lee and Chen Liping with three. C.L.I.F. became the first drama series to have been nominated for five occasions for Best Drama Serial (the other being 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2017), more than any other drama serials to date. Out of the 31 artistes who did not receive a Top 10 nomination in 2019, 16 artistes were nominated for the first time, more than any number of artistes in a single year. This award also marks the first appearance of a number of artistes nominated in the Top 10 after long absences: Edwin Goh and Yvonne Lim who both last nominated in 2014, seven years ago. Ann Kok who last nominated in 2013, eight years ago. Henry Thia who last nominated in 2009, 12 years ago. Darren Lim who last nominated in 1999, 22 years ago. Of these, Lim hold the record of having the longest gap between his two nominations for any of the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes, and is tied along with Lina Ng for the second longest gap for any artistes, behind Chen Xiuhuan's 24. Lim also now hold the record of having a longest gap of nominations without a win. Marcus Chin, Hong Ling and Bonnie Loo won their first Top 10 after nine, three and four nominations, respectively. Star Awards won its eighth Entertainment Special award since 2017, surpassing the record of seven tying with NKF Charity Show. Quan Yi Fong won her fourth consecutive Best Programme Host, and her seventh hosting role including Info-ed Hosts prior to 2015.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic