The 27th edition of the Star Awards, Star Awards 2022 (Chinese: 红星大奖2022) is a television award ceremony that honoured the best in Singaporean television released between January and December 2021. The ceremony was held in Singapore on 24 April 2022 at the MES Theatre @ Mediacorp and was hosted by Chen Hanwei.
Romantic drama My Star Bride won a leading three awards including the Best Drama Serial, followed by Recipe Of Life winning two awards for the lead acting roles respectively by Chen's seventh and Huang Biren's fourth, the latter tying Zoe Tay's most number of Best Actress' wins. Five other shows won one award each, including Jeffrey Xu's first acting career win for Star Awards for Best Supporting Actor in his role in The Takedown, and Star Awards 2021 winning its ninth Variety Special.
Two celebrities, Dennis Chew and Zheng Geping were conferred the All-time Favourite Artiste, while Felicia Chin and Rebecca Lim won their tenth Top 10 Most Favourite Artiste, the latter being the ninth celebrity to win the Top 10 award for ten consecutive times. Two celebrities, Chantalle Ng and Brandon Wong, won their first Top 10 Award this year, the latter being his first nomination in the category after 27 years of his tenure at Mediacorp.[2]
Telecast
The 2022 ceremony was broadcast live on meWATCH, Mediacorp Channel U, Mediacorp Channel 8 and YouTube from 7pm to 10pm on 24 April 2022. There was an exclusive live commentary broadcast on meWATCH from 3:30pm to 10:30pm. A repeat telecast of the Star Awards 2022 will be aired from 2pm to 6.30pm on 1 May 2022 on Mediacorp Channel 8.
Recipient won his/her tenth Top 10 award and would be awarded the "All-time Favourite Artiste" on the following year's ceremony.
Eligible artistes were shortlisted to participate in a nationwide poll of 1,000 people representing an equal breakdown across various age groups across Singapore's demographic, called "Popularity Survey". It was conducted independently by an accredited market research company. 40 artistes were announced on 10 March 2022 and the voting period opened from 11 March 2022, 12:00pm to 24 April 2022, 8:00pm. Each user was limited to one vote per day, but the restriction was lifted to allow unlimited voting on 24 April 2022 from 12:00am to 8:00pm. The weightage of the survey-to-votes were adjusted to 30%-70%.[5][6]
The ceremony also included a minor award ceremony, entitled MyPICK! Awards.
The winners of MY PICK! categories were determined by public voting. Voting began at 12:00 a.m. on 11 March 2022, and closed on 10 April 2022. 11:59pm. All voters with a valid meCONNECT account were eligible to vote and voting was free. For each award category, each voter was limited to one vote every day. On 24 April 2022, the results were revealed during the Star Awards 2022 – Backstage LIVE.[7][8]
Favourite Female Show Stealer 最吸睛女角色
Favourite Male Show Stealer 最吸睛男角色
Chantalle Ng 黄暄婷 - My Star Bride 过江新娘 as Mai Phương Thảo 梅芳草
Jesseca Liu 刘子绚- Crouching Tiger Hidden Ghost 臥虎藏鬼 as Lin Xiaofang 林小芳
Joanne Peh 白薇秀- Mind Jumper 触心罪探 as Khoo Kaile 邱凯乐
Rui En 瑞恩 - Mister Flower 花花公子 as Chen Huiling 陈慧玲
Tasha Low 刘怡伶 - Live Your Dreams 大大的梦想 as Lee Sitong 李思彤
Xu Bin 徐彬 - My Star Bride 过江新娘 as Chung Shee Jie 钟世杰
Desmond Tan 陈泂江 - Key Witness 关键证人 as Chen Zhiming 陈志明
Glenn Yong 容启航 - Live Your Dreams 大大的梦想 as Sun Yian 孙易安
Jeremy Chan 田铭耀 - Crouching Tiger Hidden Ghost 臥虎藏鬼 as Ma Da 马达
Richie Koh 许瑞奇 - Live Your Dreams 大大的梦想 as Zhu yongjie 朱勇杰
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, Best Supporting Actress 最佳女配角 (2 Noms) (1 win), Best Theme Song 最佳主题曲
Key Witness《关键证人》
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Best Actor 最佳男主角，Best Supporting Actor 最佳男配角 (2 Noms), Best Supporting Actress 最佳女配角 (2 Noms), Young Talent Award 青苹果奖, Best Theme Song 最佳主题曲
4
Crouching Tiger Hidden Ghost 《臥虎藏鬼》
Best Drama Serial 最佳戏剧, Best Actor 最佳男主角, Best Actress 最佳女主角, Best Theme Song 最佳主题曲
3
The Heartland Hero 《邻里帮》
1
Best Supporting Actor 最佳男配角, Best Supporting Actress 最佳女配角, Young Talent award 青苹果奖
2
CTRL《操控》
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Best Actress 最佳女主角, Best Theme Song 最佳主题曲
Recipe Of Life《味之道》
2
Best Actor 最佳男主角, Best Actress 最佳女主角
Soul Old Yet so Young《心里住着老灵魂》
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Best Drama Serial 最佳戏剧, Best Actor 最佳男主角
The Takedown《肃战肃绝》
1
Best Drama Serial 最佳戏剧, Best Supporting Actor 最佳男配角
Mind Jumper《触心罪探》
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Best Drama Serial 最佳戏剧, Best Actress 最佳女主角
iKid, You Not!《返老还童》
Young Talent Award 青苹果奖, Best Short-Form Drama Series 最佳短篇戏剧
Nominations
Name of the Programmes
Awards
Nominated Category
3
Curious City《小岛国，大发现》
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Best Entertainment Programme 最佳综艺节目，Best Programme Host 最佳综艺及资讯节目主持人 (2 Noms)
Star Awards 2021《红星大奖2021》
1
Best Entertainment Special 最佳综艺特备节目 (3 Noms) (1 win)
2
Hear U Out S2《权听你说 2》
Best Entertainment Programme 最佳综艺节目，Best Programme Host 最佳综艺及资讯节目主持人
The Inner Circle《神秘嘉宾》
Best Entertainment Programme 最佳综艺节目，Best Programme Host 最佳综艺及资讯节目主持人
Ceremony information
The ceremony's theme, "When the Stars Align, Dreams Come True" (星光荟聚 ，筑梦视界), paid tribute to the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore while delivering celebrations with an award show to honour Singapore's content and artistes.[9][10]
Each program is eligible for a Star Awards only once throughout the show's lifetime, meaning that if any program was nominated for this ceremony, they will be ineligible for the 2023 awards.[5]
For the sixth consecutive year, Bioskin was the main presenter at the Star Awards Ceremony and sponsored the Bioskin Most Charismatic Artist Award. Online voting began on 25 March 2022 and ended on 10 April 2022. The winner for the award was announced during the Red Carpet Show.[11]
The nominees for the performance categories were announced on 16 February 2022 while the popularity categories were announced on 10 March 2022.[12][13]
The ceremony featured a robot attendant which delivered awards to the recipients during the ceremony.[14][15] Several guest presenters who were not present at the show - Mickey Huang, Aaron Kwok, and Jacky Wu - appeared via holograms to present the awards.[15]
Presenters and performers
The following individuals presented awards and performed musical numbers.[16][17]
^ Backstage Creative Awards were presented outside the award ceremony with the Best Screenplay winner My Star Bride, written by Chan Yoke Yeng, the Best Director goes to Loh Woon Woon for Key Witness, Ng Jin Puay from The Food Lab won the award for Best variety research writer, and Kang Lay See won the Best Variety Producer award for Curious City.[3][4]
‡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.