High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Star Awards (Chinese: ) is an annual awards ceremony organised by the Singaporean company MediaCorp to honour the best performing individuals and works by MediaCorp artists and staff on MediaCorp Channel 8 and MediaCorp Channel U.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 and Zoe Tay winning the Most Popular Actor and Actress award.