Star Awards 2005 was the 12th
Star Awards
The Star Awards (Chinese: 红星大奖) are awards for artistic and technical merit in the media organisation Mediacorp of Singapore where Mediacorp recognises entertainers under their employment for outstanding performances of the year.
The ...
ceremony, held on 4 December 2005. It was part of the annual Star Awards organised by
MediaCorp
Mediacorp Pte. Ltd., doing business as Mediacorp and stylised as mediacorp, is a media conglomerate in Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the holding company of the Government of Singapore—it owns television, radio, and digital media prope ...
for
MediaCorp TV Channel 8
Channel 8 ( zh, 8頻道) is a Singaporean free-to-air television channel, airing in Mandarin Chinese. It was created by Television Singapura on 31 August 1963 with experimental broadcasts, before going official on 23 November that year. The ch ...
. Following MediaCorp's
merger
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with
SPH MediaWorks
SPH MediaWorks Ltd () was a free-to-air terrestrial television broadcaster in Singapore that operated two television channels: Channel U (Singaporean TV channel), Channel U and Channel i (Singaporean TV channel), Channel i. It merged with the ci ...
on 1 January 2005, the nominees included artistes from the former
SPH MediaWorks Channel U, many of whom were former employees of MediaCorp and its predecessor
Television Corporation of Singapore
Mediacorp Pte. Ltd., doing business as Mediacorp and stylised as mediacorp, is a media conglomerate in Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the holding company of the Government of Singapore—it owns television, radio, and digital media prope ...
. MediaCorp TV Channel 8 broadcast the awards ceremony from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm while SPH MediaWorks Channel U (now MediaCorp TV Channel U), aired the ceremony for the first time and began broadcasting the ceremony at 7:30 pm.
Prior to the actual ceremony, a separate awards ceremony and gala was held at
The Fullerton Hotel
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in which technical category awards (e.g. Best Director, Best Screenplay, etc.) and the Young Talent Award (child actors) were given out.
The show lasted three hours and saw four artistes winning two awards each, namely
Bryan Wong
Bryan Wong Lok Kiang (, born on 30 January 1971) is a Singaporean television host and actor.
Career
Wong began his career as a child actor in 1981 and featured in several popular children's programmes on SBC. He began performing modelling ...
(Best Comedy Performer, Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes),
Chen Hanwei
Tan Hung Wee (born 29 August 1969), better known by his Chinese stage name Chen Han Wei (), is a Malaysian actor based in Singapore.
Early life
Chen Han Wei grew up in Kampung Ungku Mohsin, Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Adopted since birth, Hanwei ...
(Best Actor, Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes),
Huang Biren
Huang Biren (born 7 March 1969) is a Singaporean actress best known for appearing in numerous MediaCorp Channel 8 television dramas. She was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 1988 to 2008, but continues to film on an ad-hoc basis.
...
(Best Actress, Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes) and
Quan Yi Fong
Quan Yi Fong (, born 1 March 1974) is a Taiwanese-born Singaporean host and actress, who has since taken up Singaporean citizenship and given up her Taiwanese citizenship.
Career
Quan joined the SBC in 1992. In 1996, she was fired by TCS ov ...
(Best Variety Show Host, Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes).
Winners and nominees
Unless otherwise stated, the winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, or highlighted.
Backstage Achievement Awards Ceremony
As like preceding ceremonies, Professional and Technical Awards were presented before the main ceremony via a clip montage due to time constraints. Unless otherwise stated, the lists of winners are only reflected in the table.
Main Ceremony
Special Award
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.
Top 10 awards
Guests Performers
The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.
Backstage
Main Ceremony
Star Awards 2006
Star Awards 2006 is a television awards ceremony telecast in 2006 as part of the annual Star Awards organised by MediaCorp for MediaCorp TV Channel 8. The ceremony, alongside the Walk-of-fame and the Post-show party, were held on 10 December 20 ...
accolades
The ceremony did not receive nominations for the Best Variety Special in the
2006 ceremony; this was the last time the ceremony did not receive nominations until the
2018 ceremony, 13 years later (in the case, said category was not presented at the time).
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