Star Awards 2021

Star Awards 2021
红星大奖2021
Sponsored byBioskin (Presenter)
Eu Yan Sang
Simmons
Holistic Way
Bio-Essence
Ebene
Mercedes-Benz (Luxury Car Sponsor)
Daikin
Royal Caribbean Singapore
Date18 April 2021
LocationJewel Changi Airport
Changi Terminal 4
CountrySingapore
Hosted byBackstage:
Dennis Chew
Jeremy Chan
Juin Teh
Hazelle Teo

Walk-of-fame:
Lee Teng
Vivian Lai
Desmond Ng

Main show:
Guo Liang
Quan Yi Fong
Highlights
Most awardsA Quest to Heal (4)
Most nominationsA Jungle Survivor (6)
Best Drama SerialA Quest to Heal
Best Variety ShowKing of Culinary
Former AwardsAll-time Favourite Artiste:
Dasmond Koh
Television/radio coverage
NetworkMediacorp Channel 8
Mediacorp Channel U
meWatch
YouTube (Mediacorp Entertainment Channel)
Runtime180 mins (Awards Ceremony)
90 mins (Walk-of-fame)
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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 delayed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic[1][2]

The Star Awards 2021 is in its 26th edition, with the theme Connect (星起点). This symbolizes the role media companies and other industry partners played in engaging television audiences during the previous year's COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore.

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,[3] as well as social distancing measures leading to Mediacorp clarifying about the measures taken.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Mediacorp postpones Star Awards 2020 over COVID-19 concerns". Archived from the original on 19 February 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  2. ^ "It's official: No Star Awards this year and it will be back in April 2021". CNA Lifestyle. Archived from the original on 24 April 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
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