Star Awards 2015 (also SA2015, Chinese: 红星大奖2015) 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 channel Mediacorp Channel 8. SA2015 is broadcast live on Channel 8, on 19 April 2015 and 26 April 2015. This was the final ceremony to be held at Caldecott Hill before the campus was relocated to one-north at Stars Avenue in the subsequent year, henceforth the subtitles for the ceremony name itself.[1][2][3]
The ceremony saw the second season of The Joy Truck and The Journey trilogy, Tumultuous Times, became the biggest winning variety and drama series respectively. In voting categories, Qi Yuwu and Rui En won their tenth Top 10 awards while Jeanette Aw won an unprecedented seven awards during the ceremony, the most for any artiste, including the All-time Favourite Artiste together with Vivian Lai.
Hu Jielan 胡洁岚 – Changi Dead Fish 大批鱼儿突死亡 损失或逾300万元
Lip Kwok Wai 聂国威 – URA Extend New F&B Outlet Ban 市建局扩大禁令禁增设餐饮场所
Loi Kar Yee 黎嘉宜 – People's Park Scam 珍珠坊黑店风波 投诉个案增多
Best Current Affairs Story 最佳时事报道
Chan Wai Hoe 陈伟豪 – Focus 焦点 – The Evolution of the Chinese Indonesian Society 印尼华人社会的蜕变
Chng Kheng Leng 庄庆宁, Yap Li Ling 叶莉凌, Raymond Foong 冯剑斌 and Francis Ng 黄进远 – Frontline 前线追踪 – Differentiating Genuine and Fake Charity Donations 募捐真假 如何分辨
Cheng Tee Yin 庄致颖, Chew Wen Jing 周汶静 and Soh Bee Lan 苏美兰 – Frontline 前线追踪 – Errant Retailers at Sim Lim Square 森林黑店
Grace Yang 杨晓红 – Focus 焦点 – Hong Kong's Political Unrest 香港的社会矛盾
Tang Ai Wei 陈爱薇 and Neoh Chia Nee 梁嘉倪 – Money Week 财经追击 – Rising Customs Fees 通关费一涨再涨
This award is a special achievement award given out to artiste(s) who have achieved a maximum of 10 popularity awards over 10 years. Top 10 winning years the recipients were awarded together are highlighted in boldface.
Since the 2012 awards, results for the Top 10 Most Popular Male and Female Artistes were determined by telepoll and online voting, each carrying a 50% weightage towards the final results. The telepoll lines were announced, and opened on 9 March 2015 in its first public event held at VivoCity. The voting closed on 26 April at 8:30 pm, during the second award ceremony.
The nominees are listed in telepoll line order. The results of the Top 10 awards are not in any rank order.
Note
Description
Italic
New to list (Not nominated last year).
Bold
Awardees who made it to the Show 2 top 10.
Made it to top 10 in the week / Fall under the Top n category.
n
How many of this awards the awardee got.
10
To be awarded the All-Time Favourite Artiste in the next Star Awards.
"Big Bang" spoof skit (as "Big Bank") Performed "Fantastic Baby" (fruits version) Presenter of the awards for Best Variety Research Writer and Best Variety Producer
Hosts and Assistant Hosts of "What Your School Doesn't Teach You" (学校没教的事) Presenter of the awards for Favourite Male Character and Favourite Female Character
Presenter of the award for Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award
Ceremony information
Award Information
For the first time since 2009, Mediacorp opt out a location for their second show, with both shows to be held inside the Mediacorp studios, as 2015 will mark its final year to be held at the former location of Caldecott Hill prior to the relocation of its campus at Mediapolis@one-north. The 2015 ceremony was also the last time where the first show presented Professional and Technical Awards during Show 1, and the last ceremony to feature long-time announcer John Kuek due to his retirement.
While the minimum quota requirement was raised to 10 last year in order for a professional and programme award category to be presented, three awards were not presented last year due to the changes, those being Best Current Affairs Presenter, Best News Presenter and Best Newcomer; of the three, only Best Newcomer returned while the other two did not, despite Channel 8 News & Current Affairs already had ten news presenters by the end of 2014; as of 2024, neither awards had been presented since 2013. The reason for this is unknown.
Jeanette Aw was the most trending celebrity in online social media as she won seven awards throughout the entire ceremony.[4] In the backstage after Show 1, Aw announced that she would want to withdraw from voting-based award categories in the future, citing competition issues by her supporters; however, Mediacorp rejected her request due to the nominations being determined by online as she was renominated (and subsequently won) for them in the following year, but eventually led to a rework of all the voting categories by 2017.[5] A viral video surfaced during Show 2 when Aw accidentally tripped on the stairway during the presentation for All-Time Favourite Artistes but quickly recovered with minor injuries. She even lampshade the fall by telling the viewers to rise again after, during her acceptance speech.[6][7]
Consecutive and records in award categories, first in Top 10
The Joy Truck became the third variety program to win its second Best Variety Programme award, after City Beat and Say It If You Dare.
Jeanette Aw set a record on winning the most awards for an individual at seven, among which were Most Popular Regional Artiste Awards (three, for Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia), Social Media Award, Favourite Female Character, Favourite Onscreen Couple (Drama) (with Zhang Zhenhuan, who they also won all the Favourite category awards) and All-Time Favourite Artiste (with Vivian Lai).
Pow and Wong, along with Shaun Chen, Ian Fang and Julie Tan, won their first Top 10 Favourite Artiste award.
The last time Felicia Chin nominated (and won) for the Top 10 Most Favourite Female Artiste was 2010; she switched to part-time acting to study for a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in the NUS Business School, quit her studies and has since returned to acting.
Star Awards won its fifth consecutive "Best Variety Special" award, part of the five-win streak since the show won her first award in 2010 until its next loss in 2016.
Awards categories
This was the first show to introduce the category for Tokyo Bust Express Sexy Babe Award.
Other trivia
Jack Neo's comeback appearance as Liang Po Po in nearly 15 years.
The 2015 ceremony was nominated for Best Variety Producer and Best Variety Special in the ceremony next year, but were lost to Love on the Plate 3 and GeTai Challenge, respectively; for the latter, the loss ended a five-win streak of winning the "Best Variety Special" since Star Awards 2010.
‡Dates and years listed for each ceremony were the eligibility period of television in Singapore. For the first 14 ceremonies, the ceremony was held at the end of the year (usually December). Since the 15th ceremony held in 2009, the ceremony was held on April and the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year, hence no ceremony was held in 2008 due to a format change. No ceremony was held on 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic while nominations for the 2019 calendar year were rolled over to the next ceremony.
