Star Awards 2011 (Chinese: 红æÂÂ大奠2011) 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.
As like the preceding year's ceremony, this year's Star Awards were broadcast in two live-telecast shows on Channel 8, on 17 and 24 April. The first show, titled é¶å Âéªè (lit. Blinding Silverlight) was broadcast live on 17 April 2011 at MediaCorp Studios, which primarily focuses on giving out mostly technical awards and the Favourite popularity awards which introduced since last year. The second show, titled éÂÂ碧è¾Âæ (lit. Golden Splendour) was broadcast live on 24 April 2011 at the Grand Ballroom in Resorts World Sentosa, which was the main award ceremony, followed by a post-show party (telecast on Channel U) after the ceremony concluded.
The year's leading contender, Breakout (which had 19 nominations), became the biggest winning drama serial of the year, clinching a total of five awards including the Best Drama Serial. Comedy satire Black Rose broke a record of having the most nominations by variety/info-ad programme in a single year with seven, but cooking documentary variety show Love On A Plate set another record of wins most awards for a Variety Programme, with four.
Unless otherwise stated, winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface. A <sup>1</sup> next to the nomination indicate that a representative will collect the award in place of the nominee.
The show opened at 7.00pm with a two-and-a-half minute parody opening containing mashup of various Chinese programmes of 2010âÂÂ11, and many dialogues or shots from a selected number of scenes are edited (to fit the Star Awards theme) and the voices are dubbed by different artistes (all nominees). When the show opens, the show hosts Dasmond Koh, Kym Ng, Bryan Wong and Pornsak were dubbed with voices of Wong, Pornsak, Koh and Ng, respectively, who then explaining the opening's disclaimer after the voices are fixed.
Winners and nominees:
This was the first ceremony in history of Star Awards the nominations for the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes was not 20 (for each gender), as 21 artistes (for each gender) were shortlisted. Similar to the past awards, the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes commenced after the nominations (on 17 March 2011), and voting closes until 24 April at 9pm.
This award is a special achievement award given out to a veteran artiste(s) who have achieved a maximum of 10 popularity awards over 10 years.
Programs that received multiple nominations are listed below, by number of nominations per work:
The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.
The first show of 2011 won the Best Variety Special on the following ceremony next year; it was Star Awards third win for the Best Variety Special, and the second consecutive time on doing so.