Star Awards - Best Actor & Best Actress Nominations in Star Awards, Star Awards 1998, Star Awards 2000, Star Awards 2001, Star Award (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Best Actor & Best Actress Nominations In Star Awards, Star Awards 1998, Star Awards 2000, Star Awards 2001, Star Awards 2002, Star Awards 2003, Star Awards 2004, Star Awards 2005, Star Awards 2006, Star Awards 2007, Star Awards 2009, Star Awards 2010, Star Awards 2011, Star Awards 2012. Excerpt: The Star Awards (Chinese: ) is an annual ceremony where the media organisation, MediaCorp, recognises entertainers in their employ for their outstanding performances. Unlike similar entertainment ceremonies, the ceremony also celebrates how popular individual entertainers are based on how much fans were collectively willingly to spend through a voting system that elevate the popularity status of individual entertainers. The first ever annual Star Awards event was held in 1994. In the first three years of the Awards, MediaCorp handed out just 10 Most Popular Artistes awards (five for each gender) instead of the current 20 (10 for each gender). The Best Actor and Best Actress awards were only introduced in 1995. Prior to that, it was more of a popularity contest, with Li Nanxing, Chew Chor Meng and Zoe Tay winning the Most Popular Actor and Actress award. In 1995, a top gun of Hong Kong's TVB was one of the guests at the Star Awards. When giving out the award, he commented on the significance of the awards in recognizing television talents. He wished that Hong Kong will have similar television award ceremony in future. In less than 2 years after his return to Hong Kong, the TVB Anniversary Awards was born. The Star Awards has traditionally been held at the TV Theatre on Caldecott Hill. Though there were some exceptions, the first being in 1996 where this annual event was being held at Harbour Pavilion, and 2006, when it was held at St James Power Station. Previously, technical category awards (e.g. Best Director, ...