Special awards

This is given to an artist who has received a total of ten "Top 10 Most Popular Male / Female Artiste Awards" and/or "Most Popular Rising Star Award," which do not have to be consecutive. The artiste will receive an All-Time Favourite Artiste Award after winning the tenth popularity award.^[11][12]

Top 10 Most Popular Artistes

Artists who meet the Popularity Category Eligibility Criteria are shortlisted to participate in a nationwide poll of 1,000 people from Singapore's population, with an equitable breakdown across various age groups ("Popularity Survey") and public voting.

An recognized market research business conducts the Popularity Survey independently using face-to-face or door-to-door questionnaires.

The public vote for the popularity awards will begin in March 2023.^[13]

The Top 10 Most Popular Male / Female Artiste Awards and Most Popular Rising Stars Awards are selected by the findings of the Popularity Survey (20%) and public vote (80%), which are validated by experienced auditors.^[14][15]

Top 3 Most Popular Rising Stars 三大最受欢迎潜力星

Mediacorp added another popularity poll award this year, "Most Popular Rising Star Award". Participants must be newcomers with no more than 5 years of performing arts experience. This year, 39 newbies were chosen as finalists. The award is gender neutral and can be awarded to both male and female artistes. The top 3 vote-getters will get trophies.^{[16][17][18] [19]}

MyPick! Categories

A minor award ceremony called MyPICK! which had been presented for the second consecutive year since 2022.

The public voted to select the winners of the MY PICK! categories. Voting began at 12:00 p.m. on March 6, 2023. Voting was free and open to all voters with a valid meCONNECT account. Each voter could only vote once every day in each award category. The results were unveiled on April 9, 2023, during the Star Awards 2023 - Backstage Marathon.^[20]

Sponsorship Voting Category

Bioskin Most Charismatic Artiste Award - Red Carpet
Chan Brothers My Star Guide Award - Backstage

Changes to the award categories

• There will be 2 new awards, "Best Rising Star 最佳潜力星" and popularity award "Most Popular Rising Star Award 最受欢迎潜力星", which will have the same eligibility requirements as the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes, with nominees required to play at least a lead role or main host in at least one Eligible Programme, or a supporting role or episodic host in at least one Eligible Programme. Nominees must have 5 years or fewer of professional screen acting and/or screen / audio hosting experience (as at 1 January 2022). Cameo appearances and/or experiences prior to the age of 18 are not considered professional screen acting and/or screen / audio hosting experience. Also, the "Best Rising Star Award" will be judged by the professional juries.
• The Best Short-Form Drama Series 最佳短篇戏剧 category was not presented for the first time this year since its inception in 2019.
• The amount of nominations for the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes has now been increased to an unlimited number, making any artiste who had contributed to Singaporean television in the past year eligible to compete in The Top 10.
• The MyPick! Awards for "Perfect Combo 最合拍搭档" and "Most Attention Seeking New-gen Host 最强镜新晋主持人" was not presented for the first time this year since its inception of the categories last year, in 2022
• Unlike previous ceremonies, the awards for the Programme Categories were presented before the main award ceremony.

Top 10 Most Popular Artistes nomination and controversy

The revisions to the Top 10 Most Popular Category have aroused controversy because the category will no longer be limited to its regular 20 Male and Female performers; instead, the category will nominate every artist who had contributed to Singaporean television in the past year. The rules and conditions for this year's Top 10 Most Popular Artistes award were extensively open to people who had contributed not only in Mediacorp Television, but also in Mediacorp Radio Broadcasting. Anyone with more than five years of experience in screen acting and/or screen/audio hosting as of January 1, 2022 and who meets at least one of the following requirements is eligible:^[23]

• In at least one eligible programme and had played the lead or were the major host.
• In at least three eligible programmes and had played a supporting part or hosted an episode.
• Appears in 30 episodes across all eligible programmes.

New regulations conceal vulnerabilities

Artistes that have only appeared in one drama series as a lead role may also be nominated in this category. Examples are "Sisters Stand Tall", where Malaysian actress "Jojo Goh" and Chinese actress "Jin Meng Yang Zi" were nominated for the award as well, despite not being under Mediacorp staff. Majority of the nominees of the Top 10 popularity awards were radio DJs as well, as they can be nominated just by being the host of an eligible radio programme. However, DJ "Kimberly Wang" from the English radio station 987FM was also nominated for this category.^[23][13]