Star Awards 2013
Star Awards 2013 was a double television award ceremony held in Singapore. It is part of the annual Star Awards organised by MediaCorp for the two free-to-air channels, MediaCorp Channel 8 and MediaCorp Channel U. Star Awards 2013 was broadcast live on Channel 8, on 21 April 2013 and 28 April 2013. The first ceremony was held at the MediaCorp TV Theatre while the second ceremony was held at the Marina Bay Sands. The ceremonies were also broadcast on 8 International and the second ceremony on Astro AEC & Astro Quan Jia HD for the first time in HD.
As with the previous three years, viewers were able to catch the presentation of the Professional awards on Channel 8. The ceremony was aired live on 21 April, while the annual Star Awards prize presentation was aired on 28 April. A post-show was held after the awards ceremony on 28 April, which was broadcast on Channel U at 2200hrs.
20 programs won at least one award, the largest representation of programs with one awards tying the last year's ceremony's count. Best Drama Serial Pillow Talk won only one award, its lowest count of awards for a winning Drama Serial, while Unriddle 2 won the most awards for the ceremony with five. Joys of Life won three awards out of the largest count of nominations for the ceremony, all awarded from Show 1. Only two variety/info-ed programs won multiple awards, which were Find Me A Singaporean 3 and the last year's Star Awards ceremony, the latter retaining the three-year winning streak for Best Variety Special. This was the second ceremony, since 2007 to not present the All-Time Favourite Artiste, in the place was the newly-introduced Honorary TV Award.
Programme details
Show 1
The first show, titled "亮闪八方" was broadcast on 21 April 2013 at the MediaCorp Studios at Caldecott Hill.In place of the usual opener, artistes and nominated backstage personnel were directly ushered to their seats on Show 1, in view of a special tribute for late television icon Huang Wenyong, who died the previous day. A five-minute segment begins with host Lee Teng delivering his eulogy, then 30 seconds of silence was observed, and a video of his contributions was played. The show later opened after a commercial break at 7.08 pm.
Professionally Judged Awards
Awards Eligible for Voting
Rocket Award
Viewership awards
Show 2
The second show was broadcast on 28 April 2013 at the Marina Bay Sands Grand Theatre.Professionally Judged Awards
Awards Eligible for Voting
Special Award
The Honorary TV award is introduced as a special achievement award given out posthumously to past artiste to honour contributions made to the local TV industry. The wife and daughter of Huang Wenyong represented the late television icon to receive the Honorary TV Award in recognition of his contributions to Singapore's television industry.| Huang Wenyong 黄文永 |
Top 10 awards
Similar to previous ceremonies, The Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes and Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes will be decided by telepoll and online voting; each carrying a 50% weightage towards the final result. The telepoll lines was announced and opened on 15 March 2013, and would run until 28 April at 8.30 pm. The temporary results are not publicized on TV but through the Toggle Now app, which users can download from the App Store or Google Play.The nominees are listed in telepoll line order. The results of the Top 10 awards are not in rank order.
| Note | Description |
| Italic | New to list. |
| 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. |
2 Proceeds from the "Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes" calls for Huang Wenyong will be donated to HCA Hospice.
3 Xiang Yun represented Huang to collect the award.
Post Show Party Awards
Summary of nominations and awards (by programme genre)
Most nominations
Programs that received multiple nominations are listed below, by number of nominations per work:| Drama Series | Nominations |
| Joys of Life 花样人间 | 13 |
| It Takes Two 对对碰 | 12 |
| Don't Stop Believin' 我们等你 | 10 |
| Pillow Talk 再见单人床 | 9 |
| Poetic Justice 微笑正义 | 9 |
| Unriddle 2 最火搭档2 | 9 |
| Show Hand 注定 | 5 |
| Game Plan 千方百计 | 4 |
| Jump! 跳浪! | 3 |
| Yours Fatefully 孤男寡女 | 3 |
| The Quarters 猪仔馆人家 | 2 |
| Double Bonus 双星报喜 | 1 |
| Variety/Info-ed | Nominations |
| Jobs Around the World 走遍天涯打工乐 | 5 |
| Food Source 3 食在好源头 | 4 |
| Focus 焦点 | 3 |
| Good Morning Singapore! 早安您好! | 3 |
| Star Awards 2012 红星大奖2012 | 3 |
| Battle @ Water Margin 我爱水浒转 | 2 |
| Bliss Seeker 另一片天空 | 2 |
| Channel 8 Countdown 2013 @ Vivocity 8频道跨年派对 | 2 |
| Find Me A Singaporean 3 稀游记3 | 2 |
| Frontline 前线追踪 | 2 |
| Let's Talk 3 你在囧什么?! 3 | 2 |
| Lunar New Year's Eve Special 2012 金龙腾飞庆丰年 | 2 |
| Money Week 财经追击 | 2 |
| S.N.A.P. 熠熠星光总动员 | 2 |
| Star Reunion 那些年，我们一起看电视 | 2 |
| Street Smart 自由脚步 | 2 |
| Thye Hua Kwan Charity Show 2012 太和观 一心一德为善乐 | 2 |
| United Neighbours Society 邻里合作社 | 2 |
| The Banquet 大飨宴 | 1 |
| Body SOS 小毛病 大问题 | 1 |
| Borders 边城故事 | 1 |
| Campus SuperStar 2013 校园SuperStar 2013 | 1 |
| The Era of Rising to Fame 快红时代 | 1 |
| Knock! Knock! Who's There? 啊！是你到我家 | 1 |
| Life's Big Factories 巨工厂 | 1 |
| Makan Unlimited 新马美食一家亲 | 1 |
| My Fair Ladies 小女人大视界 | 1 |
| Project i 企业i计划 2 | 1 |
| Share Something 我爱公开 | 1 |
| Stories 人间。事 | 1 |
| Tuesday Report 星期二特写 | 1 |
Most wins
| Drama Series | Wins |
| Unriddle 2 最火搭档2 | 5 |
| Don't Stop Believin' 我们等你 | 4 |
| Joys of Life 花样人间 | 3 |
| Game Plan 千方百计 | 1 |
| It Takes Two 对对碰 | 1 |
| Pillow Talk 再见单人床 | 1 |
| Poetic Justice 微笑正义 | 1 |
| Show Hand 注定 | 1 |
| Variety/Info-ed | Wins |
| Find Me A Singaporean 3 稀游记3 | 2 |
| Star Awards 2012 红星大奖2012 | 2 |
| Battle @ Water Margin 我爱水浒转 | 1 |
| Body SOS 小毛病 大问题 | 1 |
| Borders 边城故事 | 1 |
| Focus 焦点 | 1 |
| Food Source 3 食在好源头 | 1 |
| Frontline 前线追踪 | 1 |
| Jobs Around the World 走遍天涯打工乐 | 1 |
| Money Week 财经追击 | 1 |
| Share Something 我爱公开 | 1 |
| S.N.A.P. 熠熠星光总动员 | 1 |
Presenters and performers
The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.Show 1
Show 2
Trivia
Absence awards categories
- This is the second award ceremony after 2007 the "All Time Favourite Artiste" award was not presented since the category was first presented in 2004. It was thought that Chen Hanwei received his tenth award in 2012 and the award will be given out this year, but it was actually an errata made by the committee.
- *In the place was "Honorary TV Award", which was posthumously awarded to Huang Wenyong. As of the most recent ceremony in 2019, it was the only time the award was presented. The award did not return in 2019, although there was a tribute to one artiste, Aloysius Pang, who died earlier on 23 January that year.
- *The award will return in 2014 after Chen and Bryan Wong received their tenth Top 10 award this year.
- *The absence for the award will not happen again until 2018, five ceremonies later.
Consecutive nominees and awardees, firsts in Top 10
- The nominees for the "Best Current Affairs Presenter" award are the same throughout four consecutive years from 2010 to 2013. Two awardees received the award consecutively twice from 2012, and Chun Guek Lay was being awarded for the consecutive second time.
- *A rule revision in 2014 revised the criteria that the award will only be presented if there were minimum of ten nominations for that particular category; due to this, three categories will be suspended in the following ceremony, namely "Best Newcomer", "Best News Presenter" and "Best Current Affairs Presenter".
- **Although the Channel 8 News & Current Affairs had at least ten presenters at the end of 2014, this year was, as of the most recent ceremony in 2019, currently the last time both the "Best News Presenter" and "Best Current Affairs Presenter" had been presented. "Best Newcomer" will be presented again in 2015, however.
- Rui En was awarded the Most Favourite Female Character award for the third consecutive year. En and Elvin Ng were, for their second consecutive year, awarded the Most Favourite Onscreen Couple award.
- Bryan Wong was awarded the Most Favourite Variety Show Host award for the second consecutive year.
- This was the first time Belinda Lee and Lee Teng were awarded the Top 10 Most Popular Female and Male Artistes award, respectively.
- *Dai Yangtian received his second Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award since 2010.
Star Awards 20 nominations
| Nominee | Award | Accolade | Representative work | Result |
| Ahyak Yahya | Star Awards 20 Show 1 红星大奖20 第一场 | Best Set Design 最佳综艺布景设计奖 | Star Awards 2013 红星大奖2013 | |
| Lim Shiong Chiang 林雄强 | Star Awards 20 Show 1 红星大奖20 第一场 | Best Variety Research Writer 最佳综艺资料撰稿 | Star Awards 2013 红星大奖2013 | |
| Star Awards 20 Show 2 红星大奖20 第二场 | Best Variety Special 最佳综艺特备节目 | Show 2 红星大奖2013颁奖典礼 |