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Country
  
Singapore

Presented by
  
BottomSlim

Sponsored by
  
René Furterer Paris Calbee Ricola Simmons Asian Skin Solutions

Date
  
20 April 2014 27 April 2014

Location
  
Show 1: MediaCorp TV Theatre Walk of Fame, Show 2 and Post-show: Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre

Hosted by
  
Chen Shucheng Samuel Chong Dasmond Koh Vivian Lai Lee Teng Pornsak Zhang Wei Zhou Ruzhu Youyi Quan Yi Fong Guo Liang Ben Yeo Chen Ning Jeffrey Xu

Star Awards 20 (also SA20, Chinese: 红星大奖 20) was a double television award ceremony which was held in Singapore. It is part of the annual Star Awards organised by MediaCorp for the two free-to-air channels, MediaCorp Channels 8 and U. SA20 was broadcast live on Channel 8, on 20 April 2014 and 27 April 2014. The first ceremony was held at the MediaCorp TV Theatre while the second ceremony was held at Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre. The ceremonies will also be broadcast on 8 International and the second ceremony on Toggle, Astro AEC (SD) and Astro Quan Jia HD (HD).

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As with the previous four years, viewers will be able to catch the presentation of the Professional awards (given out to backstage crew and scriptwriters) on Channel 8. The ceremony was aired live on April 20, while the annual SA prize presentation (for performance based and popularity awards) was aired on April 27. A post-show was held after the awards ceremony on April 27, which was broadcast on Channel U at 10.00pm.

The ceremony will celebrate its 20th year, hence the original title of Star Awards 2014 was renamed. Television drama The Dream Makers garnered 21 nominations, the most nominations in history since The Little Nyonya in 2009.

Notes

  • Representatives listed are only applicable to the awarded title, and need not be mentioned in the Hall of Fame.
  • 1 A representative will collect the award in place of the nominee.
  • The nominees of the nominations are listed in alphabetical name order, unless otherwise stated.

    • For the first time ever, a new category has been created for regional fans to be a part of this glitz and glamour. Fans in the respective territory can now cast their vote for the Most Popular Regional Artiste Award (China / Malaysia / Indonesia / Cambodia) in an online competition and decide which Singapore artiste is most popular in their country.

    Colour key

    Social Media Award

    The results are based on the calculations from 3 international social media analysis systems, which measures the social media engagement of qualifying nominees. They must be active on at least one of the following platforms in order to qualify: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

    Viewership awards

  • 2 Winnie Wong (producer of The Dream Makers) represented Koong and Wong (who is unable to come to the ceremony due to her hospitalization) to collect the Best Theme Song and Best Director awards, respectively.
  • 3 Joanne Peh represented Qi to collect the Favourite Onscreen Couple award.

    • All Time Favourite Artiste 超级红星

    MediaCorp artistes would receive the All-Time Favourite award in place of the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes Award once they receive the popularity award for a total of 10 years. They would not be receiving any more popularity awards after receiving this award. This system is implemented so as to let younger MediaCorp artistes have a chance to win the popularity awards as well.

  • Note: Years the recipients were awarded together are highlighted in BOLD.

    • Top 10 awards

    Like the previous two years, The Top 10 Most Popular Male and Female Artistes will be decided by telepoll and online voting. The results will combine 50% telepoll voting and 50% online voting. The telepoll lines were announced on 14 March 2014 in a pre-show party. Show 2 results will be counted from 22 April to 27 April. Voting hotline for the top 10 awards will end at 8:30pm on 27 April.

    The nominees are listed in telepoll line order. The results of the Top 10 awards are not in rank order.

    Presenters and performers

    The following special guests or artistes, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.

    Awards categories

  • Social Media Award, Most Popular Regional Artiste Award, Asian Skin Solutions Most Radiant Skin Award and London Choco Roll Happiness Award were first given out this year.
  • The Favourite Host award was retired as it was purely based on the popularity of the host, which would already have been taken into account in the Top 10 awards.

    • Controversy

  • Best News Presenter, Best Current Affairs Presenter and Best Newcomer awards were suspended due to lack of eligible nominees. Instead, Best News Story and Best Current Affairs Story awards were given out on Show 2 instead to replace them. This is because professional and programme awards will only be given out when there are at least 10 candidates from this year on. Even though Channel 8 News & Current Affairs already had ten news presenters by the end of 2014, only the Best Newcomer award returned, whereas the Best News Presenter award unfortunately did not.

    • Ceremony information

  • Justin Ang is the first MediaCorp artiste to enter the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes Award without appearing in a Mandarin production.
  • For the first time, there are three recipients each for the Best Variety Producer and Best Director awards. Gan Bee Khim, Mandy Tan and Lim Shiong Chiang won the Best Variety Producer award, while Wong Foong Hwee, Leong Lye Lin and Chong Liung Man won the Best Director award.
  • Priscelia Chan is the first female winner for the Rocket Award. The past winners for the award were all males.
  • Romeo Tan, Zhang Zhen Huan, Desmond Tan, Xu Bin, Chris Tong and Ya Hui received their first Top 10 Most Popular Artistes award this year.

    • References

    Star Awards 20 Wikipedia
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