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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 by Channel. 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.^[1][2] 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.

Winners and nominees

Nominations for the professional awards were announced on 15 February.^[3] 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 nominations are 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 nominated for the Supporting Actor; 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 while both actresses tying for the most wins at four at the time, the former would go on to win her fifth award.^[4][5]

In entertainment categories, Christopher Lee won the Best Programme Host, ending a five-year streak held previously 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 recipient to ever nominated and subsequently win an award that was from an Indian origin. Both Star Awards and Love 972 The Breakfast Quartet continued their winning streak for their Variety Special and Radio Programme, respectively.^[4]

The voting categories were announced on 9 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, as the Top Ten Most Favorite Artists had removed its cap in terms of the number of nominations as criteria were relaxed, along with the introduction of its Top Three Most Popular Rising Stars, a non-gender-affiliated voting award geared for artists with no more than five years of entertainment career. In an official statement, the award criteria for "All-Time Favorite Artiste" has also revised, whereas wins from the Popular Rising Star were to count towards the criteria.^[6] The three recipients of the inaugural award went to 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 having nine Top 10 Favorite awards 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 for ten consecutive years in which she was nominated for, were the year's recipients for "All-time Favourite Artiste".

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[a]

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.^[8][9]

Popularity Awards

Top 10 Most Popular Artistes

• Winner will be listed first and highlighted in color.

As with the ceremonies since 2017, nominees are to 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.^[10] The voting weightage have been changed to 20%-80% respectively.^[11][12]

Voting held from 10 March until 9 April 8pm during the ceremony. For the first time ever, the number of artists to be nominated had no maximum cap as a total of 75 artistes (36 females and 39 males) were nominated for the voting category. As with ceremonies since 2021 to promote audience participation, the 10 vote daily restriction was lifted during the final hours of voting window, occurring on the actual day starting at 12am.

Top Three Most Popular Rising Stars 三大最受欢迎潜力星

In addition to the traditional Top 10, this award is added and aimed for the junior artists with no more than five years of acting experience; unlike Top 10, the award is not gender-affiliated and only the three artistes with the most votes would win the award. Wins towards this category will count towards the cumulative number of wins for the "All-Time Favorite Artistes".^{[13][14][15] [16]}

MyPick! Categories

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.^[17]

Sponsorship Voting Category

Bioskin Most Charismatic Artiste Award - Red Carpet
Chan Brothers My Star Guide Award - Backstage

Nominations

Winning category obtained are marked with bold.

Presenters and performers

Ceremony Information

The ceremony had broke several traditions in the past, as some Professional award categories were presented on 30 March, 11 days prior to the main award ceremony. Like in a statement issued by Mediacorp, the ceremony follows a hybrid between ceremony and concert to emphasize the entertainment industry, hence the move of some of the awards during the actual day. On 9 March, the hosts were announced while the guest performers include Jam Hsiao and Sammi Cheng. ^[18][19]

The Best Newcomer award was renamed to "Best Rising Star" (最佳潜力星), and subsequently also introduced a voting award subtitled "Most Popular Rising Star Award" (最受欢迎潜力星), along with similar eligibility requirements for the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes, aimed for artists with no more than five years of career experience (as of 1 January 2022). The criteria for the "All-Time Favorite Artiste" has also been modified, that wins for the "Most Popular Rising Star Award" will count towards the cumulative total. The Top 10 Most Popular Artistes also had an unlimited number of nominations along with similar criteria of the former, with artistes of at least five years of experience.

The Best Short-Form Drama Series 最佳短篇戏剧, "Perfect Combo 最合拍搭档" and "Most Attention Seeking New-gen Host 最强镜新晋主持人", did not present this year.

Top 10 Most Popular Artistes nomination and controversy

The revisions to the Top 10 Most Popular Category have aroused controversy because the category will no longer be limited to its regular 20 Male and Female performers; instead, the category will nominate every artist who had contributed to Singaporean television in the past year. The rules and conditions for this year's Top 10 Most Popular Artistes award were extensively open to people who had contributed not only in Mediacorp Television, but also in Mediacorp Radio Broadcasting. Anyone with more than five years of experience in screen acting and/or screen/audio hosting as of January 1, 2022 and who meets at least one of the following requirements is eligible:^[20]

• In at least one eligible programme and had played the lead or were the major host.
• In at least three eligible programmes and had played a supporting part or hosted an episode.
• Appears in 30 episodes across all eligible programmes.

New regulations conceal vulnerabilities

Artistes that have only appeared in one drama series as a lead role may also be nominated in this category. Examples are "Sisters Stand Tall", where Malaysian actress "Jojo Goh" and Chinese actress "Jin Meng Yang Zi" were nominated for the award as well, despite not being under Mediacorp staff. Majority of the nominees of the Top 10 popularity awards were radio DJs as well, as they can be nominated just by being the host of an eligible radio programme. However, DJ "Kimberly Wang" from the English radio station 987FM was also nominated for this category.^[20][10]

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