Star Awards 2016

Star Awards 2016
红星大奖2016
Star Awards 2016; 红星大奖2016
Date	17 April 2016 - Show 1 ; 24 April 2016 - Show 2
Site	The Theatre @ Mediacorp, Singapore
Presented by	London Choco Roll; Bioskin;
Sponsors	Simmons; Kinohimitsu (Award Sponsor); Mercedes-Benz (Car Sponsor); LG; Chan Brothers Travel; Seng Choon Eggs;
Hosted by	Christina Lim (Backstage); Dennis Chew; Lee Teng; Pornsak; Desmond Ng (Prelude); Shane Pow (Prelude);
Highlights
Most awards	Drama: ; The Dream Makers (season 2) (12) ; Variety/Info-ed: ; GeTai Challenge (3)
Most nominations	Drama: ; The Dream Makers (season 2) (26) ; Variety/Info-ed: ; GeTai Challenge (5)
Best Drama	The Dream Makers (season 2)
Best Variety Show	GeTai Challenge
All-time Favourite Artiste	Qi Yuwu ; Rui En
Website	Official website
Television/radio coverage
Network	Mediacorp Channel 8; Mediacorp Channel U; Toggle;
Runtime	180 mins (both presentations); 60 mins (Walk of Fame and Post-show); 15 mins (Prelude); with 2+ mins commercial each;

Star Awards 2016 (also SA2016, Chinese: 红星大奖2016) is a double television award ceremony which is held in Singapore. It is part of the annual Star Awards organised by Mediacorp for free-to-air channels Channels 8 and U.

This was the first Star Awards ceremony to be held on the new campus at Stars Avenue after its relocation happened in December 2015; for the first time since 2009, the technical awards were not broadcast on television.

The nominations were announced were announced on 1 February 2016 and the Most Favorite Artistes on 3 March 2016 at Mandarin Orchard Singapore, with the results announced during the ceremonies on 17 and 24 April 2016;^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] for the first time in the ceremony's history, both shows placed emphasis for variety and drama programs, and the Top 10 Most Favorite Artists were separately awarded, respectively.

The first season of GeTai Challenge won three awards in the Info-ed category, including the Variety Program and Variety Special, and becoming the first show other than Star Awards to win the Variety Special for the first time since 2010. In drama category, the second season of The Dream Makers broke several records during the ceremony by winning an unprecedented 12 awards out of 26 nominations (including nominations of all but two awards), and become the second drama series to sweep all five major acting categories after Holland V in 2003.

^ Joanna Goh (8 April 2016). "Local celebrity BFF friendship stories". Toggle. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
^ "《Toggle 人气BFF 奖》：本地5对超级好友" (in Chinese). Toggle. 8 April 2016. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
^ Joanna Goh (14 April 2016). "10 things we learned about the 'BFFs'". Toggle. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
^ "Toggle BFF 人气奖：超级BFF友情大考验" (in Chinese). Toggle. 14 April 2016. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

[1] Joanna Goh (8 April 2016). "Local celebrity BFF friendship stories". Toggle. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

[2] "《Toggle 人气BFF 奖》：本地5对超级好友" (in Chinese). Toggle. 8 April 2016. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

[3] Joanna Goh (14 April 2016). "10 things we learned about the 'BFFs'". Toggle. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

[4] "Toggle BFF 人气奖：超级BFF友情大考验" (in Chinese). Toggle. 14 April 2016. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

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