Star Awards 2009
Star Awards 2009 (Chinese: 红星大奖 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 (Channel 8 and Channel U). The awards took place at 26 April 2009 starting at 7pm at MediaCorp Studios, followed by a post-show party airing on Channel U after the ceremony ended. The nominations were announced on 24 February 2009, and the popularity awards later on 27 March. As like previous years, most technical category awards were presented outside the ceremony. The Best Info-Ed  Programme Host award was introduced to recognise infotainment show hosts. The nomination lists for the main categories were announced on 24 February 2009. Nominations for the popularity awards ("Top 10 Most Popular Male and Female Artistes") were announced on 27 March 2009. In contrast of previous "Star Awards" ceremonies which were held at the end of the year (month of December), a change in the eligibility period for television season (from September of each year to a full calendar year) resulted in 2008 having no ceremonies, and this was the first award ceremony in "Star Awards" history to be held  on the month of April and the format had remained for the future ceremonies since; however, the format was disrupted in the 2020 ceremony as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which caused the ceremony to be postponed from the usual April. Due to a format change on having two shows in the following year, this was the last "Star Awards" ceremony, to present the Technical Awards outside the main show until "Star Awards 2016", as well as hosting a single award ceremony (not counting prelude or special episodes) until "Star Awards 2017". "The Little Nyonya" became the biggest  winner for the 2009 ceremony, having records of breaking the number of nominations and wins with 16 and 9, respectively, surpassing the former record holder in the 2003 ceremony's drama, "Holland V", which got 10 and 7, respectively. The record for the nominations would remain held until the 2014 ceremony, where it was first beaten by "The Dream Makers (season 1)", which had 21 nominations and a record-tying nine wins; the number of wins would also be beaten in the 2016 ceremony, in which "The Dream Makers (season 2)" surpassed the record of both nominations and wins with  26 and 12, respectively. Winners and nominees. Unless otherwise stated, winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface. Backstage Achievement Awards Ceremony. As like preceding ceremonies, Professional and Technical Awards were presented before the main ceremony via a clip montage due to time constraints. The lists of winners are only reflected in the table. All Time Favourite Artiste. This award is a special achievement award given out to artiste(s) who have achieved a maximum of 10 popularity awards over 10 years. Presenters. The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers. Star Awards 2010 nominations. The ceremony was nominated for "Best  Set Design" and "Best Variety Special" on the ceremony next year, but lost to "3-Plus-1" (三菜一汤2) and "The Chinese Challenge Grand Finals" (华文？谁怕谁！总决赛), respectively.