Star Awards 2006 Explained

Star Awards 2006
红星大奖2006
Location:St James Power Station
Country:Singapore
Host:Guo Liang (Ceremony)
Patty Hou (Ceremony)
Dasmond Koh (Prelude and Post-show)
Christina Lin (Prelude only)
Date:10 December 2006
Most Nominations:Drama:
The Shining Star (7)
Variety/Info-ed:
Home Decor Survivor
Property Classified (2 each)
Most Awards:Drama:
The Shining Star (3)
Variety/Info-ed:
Home Decor Survivor (2)
Award1 Type:Best Drama
Award1 Winner:The Shining Star
Award2 Type:Best Variety Show
Award2 Winner:Home Decor Survivor
Award3 Type:Best Actor
Award4 Type:Best Actress
Award5 Type:All-time Favourite Artiste
Network:MediaCorp Channel 8
MediaCorp Channel U (Post-show)
Runtime:180 mins (both presentations)
60 mins (Post-show)
30 mins (Prelude)
Previous:2005 (12)
Main:Star Awards
Next:2007 (14)

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 2006 in Singapore and was hosted by Guo Liang and Taiwanese host Patty Hou.

This year saw precedents in Star Awards history: it was the second ceremony in Star Awards history that the ceremony was held outside the Caldecott Hill since the 1996 ceremony, where it was instead held on a pub at St James Power Station (a pub near VivoCity); it was also the first Star Awards ceremony (of the only seven) to be awarded the Best Variety Special in 2007.

Winners and nominees

Unless otherwise stated, winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.

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. The lists of winners are only reflected in the table.

  • Chong Liung Man 张龙敏 – C.I.D.
  • Annie Chua Yi Jun 蔡宜君 – Ren Ci Charity Show 2006 仁心慈爱照万千2006
  • Lim Swee Shia 林瑞霞 – Its Showtime
全民创意争霸赛
  • Teo Kim Kee 张琴棋 – Never Say Die (Finals) 永不言败 大决赛
  • Focus 焦点 – Gao Xingjian Experience in Paris 高行健巴黎接触

Main Ceremony

  • Home Decor Survivor 摆家乐
    • Dollar and Sense 神机妙算
    • My Star Guide 我的导游是明星
    • Property Classified 吉屋出售
    • Where the Queue Starts 排排站, 查查看
  • Ren Ci Charity Show 2006 仁心慈爱照万千2006
(Grand Final) 全民创意争霸赛 大决赛
    • SuperBand (Grand Final)
    • Star Idol (Grand Final) 明星偶像 大决赛
  • Y Do You Care
惊叹号!
    • Art Of War 孙子智慧
    • Of Rites And Rituals 我们的大日子
    • TR Report: Good Man Good Deed 2 特写:好人好事2
    • TR Report: Heirloom Recipe V 特写:家传菜5 - 异国风味
全民创意争霸赛
  • Tung Soo Hua
    • Lin Chi Yuan 林启元
    • Serene Loo 吕诗琳
    • Ng Siew Leng 黄秀玲

Special Award

All Time Favourite 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. The award will not be presented in 2007, as there are no recipients with ten Top 10 Most Popular Male or Female Artistes award wins to allow the award to be presented that year.

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Viewership Awards

  1. Love Concierge 爱的掌门人
  2. Measure of Man
  3. A Million Treasures
  4. Women of Times
  5. Love at 0 °C
  6. C.I.D.
  7. An Enchanted Life
  8. The Shining Star
  9. The Undisclosed
  10. House of Joy

Popularity Awards

Awards eligible for voting

Top 10 Most Popular Artistes

Top 10 winners
nRecipient's accumulated number of awards
Made it to top 10 in the week / Fall under the Top n category.
Recipient won his/her tenth Top 10 award and would be awarded the "All-time Favourite Artiste" on the following year's ceremony.
ArtistesTop 18Top 16Top 14Top 12Top 10
Dasmond Koh
Julian Hee
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Pan Lingling
Joanne Peh
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Presenters and performers

The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Artistes / Special guests Presented / Performed
Angie Chiu
Francis Ng
Presented Best Drama Serial
Judges of Project SuperStar:
Billy Koh 许环良
Lee Wei Song 李伟菘
Li Feihui
Anthony Png 方钟桦
Dawn Yip 叶佩芬
Presented Best Variety Show
Anthony Bao 包小松
Tino Bao 包小柏
Presented Best Variety Special
Dylan Kuo
Joe "Joseph" Cheng
Presented Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor
CEO, MediaCorp
Lucas Chow 周永强
Gave out All-Star Favourite Artiste
Mavis HeePresented Best Newcomer
KPMG Singapore associate
李诗莹
Gave presenter result list
Hee Theng Fong 许廷芳Presented Best News / Current Affairs Presenter
Chi-Chien Kuo 郭子乾
Tai Chih-yuan
Presented comedic skit and Best Variety Show Host
Kong Jiu 九孔 Performed "天上人间" (as Fei Yu-ching 费玉清), "心太软" (as Richie Jen 任贤齐) and "不变的心" (as Fei) as entrance performance during comedic skit
Francis Ng 吴镇宇Presented Best Actress
Angie Chiu
Melvin Wong 黃錦燊
Presented Best Actor
Tony Sun
Zax Wang 王仁甫 (from 5566)
Presented Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes
Nick Cheung
Jessica Hsuan
Presented Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes

Television spinoff

An eight-week half-hour series, titled Star Awards Up-close premiered on Tuesdays 8:30 pm from 17 October until 5 December, focusing on the award show leading up to the actual show on 10 December, along with presentation of 'side awards' (not an actual award). The weekly popularity results for the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes were announced as well. The series was hosted by Dasmond Koh and Christina Lin.

Ceremony

Professional and Technical Awards were presented before the main ceremony via a clip montage due to time constraints. The main awards were presented during the ceremony.

Criticism

The ceremony for Star Awards 2006 received mixed reception, however, criticisms were surfaced from the technical, camera and backstage crew, ranging from technical problems (i.e. lack of sound control, or display glitches) to management (i.e. time management and area allocation, the latter did receive complaints from the audiences watching from the mosh pit and free standing areas).

St. James Power Station, which was selected as the venue, was also criticised by viewers, citing that the venue was too small to host award ceremonies as artistes and audience were either squeezed in or forced out of the venue due to limited space. However, four other venues outside the MediaCorp Studios at Caldecott studios (1996's World Trade Centre, 2010–11's Resorts World Sentosa, 2012–13's Marina Bay Sands and 2014's Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre) were much more favourable in hosting live performances since, specifically Star Awards.

The nominations also saw controversies whereas the potential artistes, notably Aileen Tan, who had two leading roles, failed to receive nominations for both Best Actresses and the Top 10 Most Favourite artiste, in the place for singers Kelvin Tan, Candyce Toh and Chew Sin Huey, all of which were nominated for the first time. This led to outrage by Tan's detractors, who claimed that she has taken on stereotype roles, particular that of fierce, angry and constantly screaming characters too many times, which could have impacted her nomination chances.

During the award ceremony, both the acceptance speeches for Tay Ping Hui (Tay unnecessarily extended for an extended duration, causing host Bryan Wong was unable to finish his speech on time) and Huang Yiliang (Huang making remarks unsuitable for audiences) had resulted in complaints lodged by the viewers. The guest presenters were also heavily criticised in terms on jokes, leading MediaCorp to force out fans from entering the pub.

The adjustment of the ratio for the "Top 10 Most Favourite Artistes" received mixed reviews about the 50% allocation of the final results, which was done in August 2006 by a survey of about 600 Singaporeans. The reviews ranging from advantages assumed by newer artistes, but also a bit of criticism when rumours were spread on why Kelvin Tan Wei Lian lost by some votes in the weekly survey results. Despite this, the 50% allocation would later be returned in Star Awards 2018, and revised where it was done on a derivation of 1,000 votes.

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