Star Awards for Best Newcomer
The Star Awards for Best Newcomer is an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994.
| Star Awards for Best Newcomer 最佳新人 | |
|---|---|
| Current: Star Awards 2021 | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by a Newcomer |
| Country | Singapore |
| Presented by | MediaCorp |
| First awarded | 1994 |
| Currently held by | Jasmine Sim 沈家玉 Doppelganger 入侵者 (2019) |
The category was introduced in 1994, at the 1st Star Awards ceremony as two separate awards; Yao Wenlong received the award as the Most Popular Male Newcomer award while Ivy Lee received the Most Popular Female Newcomer award and both were given in honour of a MediaCorp male and female newcomer who were deemed as the most popular among the television audience. The nominees are determined by a team of judges employed by MediaCorp; winners are selected by a majority vote from the public via telephone and SMS text voting. Between 1995 and 2006, the category eliminated the distinctions between male and female newcomers and was given as a single award under the name of Most Popular Newcomer.
From 2007, the award went through a major revamp and was renamed as Best Newcomer. It was changed from being a popularity award to a professional award, and is given in honour of a MediaCorp newcomer who has delivered an outstanding performance in their field of profession. Similar to the Most Popular Newcomer award, the nominees are determined by a team of judges employed by MediaCorp; but the winners are selected by a majority vote from the entire judging panel. Pornsak is the first winner of the newly revamped category.
The nominees for this award were selected without any reference to their respective work titles – with the exception of 1995, 1998, 1999, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019 and 2021 when the newcomers were nominated together with the work titles which establish the public identity of the newcomers thereafter.
The award was not presented in 2003, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2017 due to the lack of eligible nominees.
Since its inception, the award has been given to 20 newcomers. Jasmine Sim is the most recent winner in this category for her role in Doppelganger.
Recipients
| Year | Newcomer | Title (role) | Nominees |
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| 1994 | Yao Wenlong 姚彣隆 | N/A | |
| Ivy Lee 李锦梅 | |||
| 1995 | Fann Wong 范文芳 | Chronicle of Life 缘尽今生 (Fang Ling 方玲) |
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| 1996 | Phyllis Quek 郭妃丽 | N/A |
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| 1997 | James Lye 赖兴祥 |
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| 1998 | Evelyn Tan 陈毓芸 | A Place to Call Home 薯条汉堡青春豆 (He Yiwen 何依雯) |
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| 1999 | Nick Shen 沈炜竣 | My Grandpa 公公，你的名字好难叫 (Fang Zhenhua 方振华) |
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| 2000 | Dasmond Koh 许振荣 | N/A |
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| 2001 | Fiona Xie 谢宛谕 |
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| 2002 | Jeanette Aw 欧萱 |
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| 2004 | Joanne Peh 白薇秀 |
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| 2005 | Jesseca Liu 刘子绚 |
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| 2006 | Kelvin Tan 陈伟联 |
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| 2007 | Pornsak |
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| 2009 | Dai Xiangyu 戴向宇 |
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| 2012 | Kate Pang 庞蕾馨 | A Tale of 2 Cities 乐在双城 (Lin Le 林乐) |
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| 2013 | Ian Fang 方伟杰 | Don't Stop Believin' 我们等你 (Bai Zhixiang 白志翔) |
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| 2015 | Aloysius Pang 冯伟衷 | N/A |
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| 2018 | Chantalle Ng 黄暄婷 | While We Are Young Z世代 (Huang Li Bai Yun 黄李白云) |
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| 2019 | Jasmine Sim 沈家玉[1] | Doppelganger 入侵者 (Li Jiawen 李嘉文) |
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| 2021 | TBA |
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^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Star Awards held that year.