Mediacorp Screen Awards 2026: Emerald Hill and Korban S2 sweep top craft awards

From Emerald Hill and Korban S2 sweeping their respective Drama categories to new honours for microdramas, here are the biggest wins from the Mediacorp Screen Awards 2026.

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If you’ve watched a Singapore drama and marvelled at a beautifully composed shot, a particularly slick edit or a scene that left you thinking about it long after the credits rolled, chances are there was a whole team of people behind the scenes making it happen.

These behind-the-scenes professionals had their moment in the spotlight at the second Mediacorp Screen Awards (MSA2026), held at Mandarin Oriental on Friday (Oct 2).

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Unlike the star-studded Star Awards , the Mediacorp Screen Awards are largely about the people behind the camera – the directors, cinematographers, writers and editors responsible for turning an idea on a page into something visual for audiences to watch.

And if this year’s results are anything to go by, a few productions clearly struck the right creative chord.

The biggest sweep of the night came from Emerald Hill – The Little Nyonya Story, which won all four Drama craft awards in the Chinese section.

Kok Tzyy Haw took Best Direction, Tommy Lee Heng Soon won Best Cinematography, Ang Eng Tee received Best Screenplay and Poon Yiu Tung picked up Best Editing.

For those keeping score, that comes after Emerald Hill was named Best Drama Serial at Star Awards 2026. In other words, the show didn't just connect with viewers and awards voters as a finished product – the individual crafts that went into making it were recognised too.

And it wasn't the only clean sweep of the evening.

Monochromatic Pictures' Korban S2 accomplished the same feat in the Malay Drama categories, with Jeevan Nathan winning Best Direction, Roszali Samad for Best Cinematography, Umie Isa and Razi Salam for Best Screenplay, and Hafiz Yusri and Andy Tseng for Best Editing.

Meanwhile, Tamil supernatural thriller Aah! by Millenia Motion Pictures took home three awards.

Sweeping three of the four Tamil Drama awards, including Best Direction for Yahssir M and K Rajagopal, Best Cinematography for Mohammad Shahril, and Best Screenplay for Rashida, Yahssir, K Rajagopal and Suriya Rethnna.

The remaining prize, Best Editing, went to Naveen Selvanayagam for Pinky Promise Thozhi.

The night wasn't just all about dramas.

Over in Chinese Entertainment, Murder On The Menu proved another favourite among the industry crowd, collecting three awards. Kenneth Lau won Best Direction, William Tan Wee Lian took Best Cinematography and Eson Kwong Ka Choy received Best Editing.

Emerald Hill – Our Hillside Moments, which was named Best Entertainment Programme at Star Awards 2026, added another trophy to the wider Emerald Hill haul, with Ng Jin Puay winning Best Writing.

In Tamil Entertainment, Tantra Inc's Uncle Taxi Season 5 – Australian Adventure scored two wins: Best Cinematography for Sharul Khan and Best Writing for Karthikeyan Somasundaram.

This year's awards also offer a glimpse at how the local production industry is evolving.

MSA2026 expanded to 35 awards across Drama, Entertainment and Information programming spanning the Chinese, Malay and Indian production communities. Perhaps more tellingly, two new Microdrama awards were introduced, recognising short-form storytelling across languages.

The inaugural honours went to Manoj Prabhoda Chandran for directing Honour and Unit y , and Chang Kai Xiang for the screenplay of Woke Up In The 60s In My Grandma’s Apron.

That might sound like a small addition, but it reflects a much bigger shift in how audiences consume entertainment. With viewing increasingly taking place on phones and social platforms, the craft of telling a compelling story in a much shorter window is becoming a discipline of its own.

As Mediacorp's chief customer and corporate development officer Angeline Poh put it, the awards exist to ensure the creative and technical minds behind these productions get their work “seen in turn”.

For an industry where the faces on screen naturally receive much of the public attention, that recognition matters.

After all, a memorable performance might be what viewers notice first. But someone still has to write the scene, frame the shot, call “action” and piece it all together.

At MSA2026, they finally got to take a bow.

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从《翡翠山》和《Korban S2》横扫各自的电视剧类别，到微型剧获得新荣誉，以下是2026年新传媒影视大奖的最大赢家。

2026 年新传媒银幕奖。（照片：Instagram/mediacorp）

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如果你看过一部新加坡电视剧，并对其中构图精美的镜头、流畅的剪辑或让你在片尾字幕结束后仍久久回味的场景感到惊叹，那么很可能背后有一个团队在默默付出。

这些幕后专业人士在周五（10 月 2 日）于文华东方酒店举行的第二届新传媒影视大奖（MSA2026）上迎来了他们的高光时刻。

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与星光熠熠的红星大奖不同，新传媒影视大奖主要表彰幕后人员——导演、摄影师、编剧和剪辑师，他们负责将纸上的想法变成观众观看的视觉作品。

如果今年的结果可以作为参考，那么显然有一些作品触动了正确的创作脉搏。

当晚最大的赢家是《翡翠山——娘惹小故事》，该剧在华语单元斩获全部四项戏剧制作奖。

郭子豪获得最佳导演奖，李恒顺获得最佳摄影奖，洪英智获得最佳编剧奖，潘耀东获得最佳剪辑奖。

值得一提的是，《翡翠山》在2026年星光奖上荣获最佳电视剧奖。换句话说，这部剧不仅作为一部成品赢得了观众和评委的喜爱，其制作过程中的每一项匠心也得到了认可。

而且，这并非当晚唯一一次横扫对手。

Monochromatic Pictures 出品的《Korban S2》在马来语剧情片类别中也取得了同样的成就，Jeevan Nathan 荣获最佳导演奖，Roszali Samad 荣获最佳摄影奖，Umie Isa 和 Razi Salam 荣获最佳编剧奖，Hafiz Yusri 和 Andy Tseng 荣获最佳剪辑奖。

与此同时，由 Millenia Motion Pictures 出品的泰米尔语超自然惊悚片《Aah!》斩获三项大奖。

横扫四项泰米尔语戏剧奖中的三项，包括 Yahssir M 和 K Rajagopal 的最佳导演奖、Mohammad Shahril 的最佳摄影奖，以及 Rashida、Yahssir、K Rajagopal 和 Suriya Rethnna 的最佳剧本奖。

剩下的奖项，最佳剪辑奖，颁给了 Naveen Selvanayagam，获奖作品是《Pinky Promise Thozhi》。

当晚并非只有戏剧表演。

在华语娱乐奖项方面，《菜单上的谋杀案》也备受业内人士青睐，斩获三项大奖。刘家辉荣获最佳导演奖，陈伟廉获得最佳摄影奖，邝家才获得最佳剪辑奖。

《翡翠山庄——我们的山间时光》荣获 2026 年星光大奖最佳娱乐节目奖，为翡翠山庄再添一座奖杯，吴金培荣获最佳编剧奖。

在泰米尔娱乐界，Tantra Inc 出品的《Uncle Taxi》第五季——澳大利亚冒险之旅获得了两项大奖：Sharul Khan 荣获最佳摄影奖，Karthikeyan Somasundaram 荣获最佳编剧奖。

今年的奖项也让我们得以一窥当地影视制作行业的演变情况。

MSA2026奖项扩展至35个，涵盖戏剧、娱乐和资讯类节目，囊括了华语、马来语和印度语的制作群体。更重要的是，新增了两项微型剧奖，旨在表彰跨语言的短篇故事创作。

首届荣誉授予了 Manoj Prabhoda Chandran，以表彰他执导的《荣誉与团结》，以及 Chang Kai Xiang，以表彰他为《穿着奶奶围裙在六十年代醒来》撰写的剧本。

这听起来或许只是个小小的改动，但它反映了观众消费娱乐方式的重大转变。随着越来越多的人通过手机和社交平台观看娱乐内容，如何在更短的时间内讲述一个引人入胜的故事，正逐渐成为一门独立的艺术。

正如新传媒首席客户及企业发展官安琪琳·波所说，这些奖项旨在确保这些作品背后的创意和技术人才能够“依次被看到”。

对于一个屏幕上的面孔自然会受到公众关注的行业来说，这种认可至关重要。

毕竟，令人难忘的表演或许是观众首先注意到的。但仍然需要有人来编写剧本、构图、喊“开拍”，并将所有元素巧妙地融合在一起。

在 MSA2026 上，他们终于有机会谢幕了。

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