Star Awards 2009

Star Awards 2009 was a television award ceremony held in Singapore. It was part of the annual Star Awards organised by MediaCorp for its Chinese language division. Star Awards 2009 was telecasted 'LIVE' on Channel 8, 26 April 2009 at 1900 hrs, where the results were announced. A post show party was held after the awards ceremony and telecasted on Channel U at 2200hrs. President Sellapan Ramanathan and Acting Minister of Information, Communications and the Arts Lui Tuck Yew were present for the awards ceremony. The nomination lists for the main categories were announced on 24 February 2009. Nominations for the popularity awards were announced on 27 March 2009. Unlike previous years, most technical category awards were presented at the actual ceremony. The Best Info-Ed Programme Host award was introduced to recognise infotainment show hosts. This is the first Star Awards to be held in April and will recognise achievements from the year 2008. All Star Awards ceremonies after this will be in April instead of December like in previous years. All winners are highlighted in BOLD.