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. 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.
Nominees and winners Nominations for the professional awards were announced on 15 February. 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.
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.
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. 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 Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Star Awards 2023 - Industry Achievement Awards (March 30, 2023) Best Drama Serial Best Radio ProgrammeYour 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 ProgrammeDishing 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 SongStar Awards 2022 – Awards Ceremony Lunar New Year's Eve Special 2022 River Hongbao 2022 - Singapore Talent Night Star Awards 2022 – Backstage LIVE The Star Voice 2022 - Grand FinalLennerd 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 ProgrammeMr 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 ActressRichie Koh - Your World in Mine as Zheng TiancaiAyden Sng - The Unbreakable Bond as Gu Yuncong Brandon Wong - Leave No Soul Behind as Feng Tianlong Desmond Ng- Your World in Mine as Hong Maodan Qi Yuwu - Dark Angel as Zhu Wei | valign="top" |Huang Biren - Your World in Mine as Li JiayunHong Ling - Your World in Mine as Zheng Tianxi Jesseca Liu - Soul Detective as Liu Shuqin Rebecca Lim - Soul Doctor as Ling Jingyao/Ling Jingqi Zoe Tay - Dark Angel as He Ziyuan |- ! style="width=50%" | Best Supporting Actor ! style="width=50%" | Best Supporting Actress |- | valign="top"|Brandon Wong - Dark Angel as Ke ZhixiongAndie Chen - Sisters Stand Tall as Yang Liwen Chew Chor Meng - Dark Angelas Yang Tao Darren Lim - Genie In A Cup as Ma Xiaobao Zhu Houren - Your World in Mine as Hong Xingwang | valign="top"|Xiang Yun - Your World in Mine as Wang JinhuiAileen Tan- Dark Angel as Alex Cynthia Koh- Leave No Soul Behind as Wu Yuwei Kym Ng - When Duty Calls (season 2) as Lu Meiguang Lina Ng - Your World in Mine as Xiuzhu |- ! style="width=50%" | Young Talent Award ! style="width=50%" | Best Evergreen Artiste |- | valign="top"| 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 | valign="top"|Xiang YunAileen Tan Hong Huifang Richard Low Zhu Houren |- ! style="width=50%" | Best Programme Host ! style="width=50%" | Best Rising Star |- | valign="top"|Christopher Lee - Dishing With Chris Lee Bryan Wong - Old Taste Detective (season 3) Darren Lim - A Night Under The Stars Dennis Chew - Mr Zhou's Ghosts Stories @ Singapore Singtings Quan Yi Fong - Hear U Out (season 3)Das DD - #justswipelah Jarrell Huang - In Safe Handsas Wu Guangming Jernelle Oh - #justswipelah Kiki Lim - When Duty Calls (season 2) as Goh Guan Lin Joey Pink- Soul Detectiveas Hannah
Special awards 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.
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 Top 10 Most Popular Artistes + Table key 10 Winner of 10th award to be named All-Time Favourite Artiste at next ceremony 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. The voting weightage was also changed to 20%-80% respectively.
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 with a total of 75 artistes (36 females and 39 males) nominated for the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes 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.
Artistes Top 101010 Carrie Wong 8 Paige Chua 8 Ya Hui 7 Chantalle Ng 2 Chen Bi Yu 1 Tasha Low 1 Chen Ning 1 Denise Camillia Tan 1 Artistes Top 10 Romeo Tan 8 Guo Liang 8 Desmond Tan 7 Shaun Chen 6 Xu Bin 5 Marcus Chin 3 Desmond Ng 2 Brandon Wong 2 Jeff Goh 1 Jeremy Chan 1
Most Popular Rising Stars 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".
Top 3 Winners No. of Awards 1 1 1
MyPick! awards 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.
Richie Koh - Your World in Mine as Zheng Tiancai 郑天才 James Seah - Soul Detective 灵探 as Bai Ye 白烨 Jeremy Chan - Soul Detective 灵探 as 4896 Qi Yuwu - Dark Angel 黑天使 as Zhu Wei 朱玮 Xu Bin - Love At First Bite 遇见你，真香！ as MartiusJesseca Liu - Soul Detective 灵探 as Liu Shuqin 刘淑琴 Hong Ling - Your World in Mine as Zheng Tianxi 郑天希 Huang Biren - Your World in Mine as Li Jiayun 李家云 Xiang Yun - Your World in Mine as Wang Jinhui 王金慧 Tasha Low - Genie In A Cup 哇到宝 as She Xiaoqian 佘小倩 Xu Bin and Chantalle Ng - Love At First Bite 遇见你，真香！ as Martius and Chang Xiyue 常喜悦 Xu Bin and Tasha Low - Genie In A Cup 哇到宝 as Ma Deming 马德明 and She Xiaoqian 佘小倩 Desmond Ng and Hong Ling - Your World in Mine as Hong Maodan 洪茂丹 and Zheng Tianxi 郑天希 Yao Wenlong and Huang Biren - Your World in Mine as Zheng Jianqiang 郑坚强 and Li Jiayun 李家云 Herman Keh and Gini Chang - Healing Heroes 医生不是神 as Pan Youxiao 潘佑孝 and Zhou Yige 周亦格 Jeffrey Xu 徐鸣杰 - Dark Angel 《黑天使》 as Gu Wangming 顾旺明 Cavin Soh 苏梽诚 - Dark Angel 《黑天使》 as Su Zhian 苏知安 Darren Lim 林明伦 - Genie In A Cup 《哇到宝》 as Ma Xiaobao 马小宝 Lina Ng 黄嫊方- Your World in Mine 《你的世界我们懂》 as Xiuzhu 秀珠 Priscelia Chan 曾诗梅 - Your World in Mine 《你的世界我们懂》 as Chen Linlin 陈琳琳
Sponsored awards Bioskin Most Charismatic Artiste Award - Red Carpet
Chan Brothers My Star Guide Award - Backstage Ayden Sng Carrie Wong Fang Rong Nick Teo Richie KohAyden Sng (Destination: Melbourne) Chen Han Wei (Destination: Bhutan) Guo Liang (Destination: China) Herman Keh (Destination: Turkey) Romeo Tan (Destination: Japan)
Nominations
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