Filmfare Awards South

Filmfare Awards South is the South Indian segment of the annual Filmfare Awards, presented by the Filmfare magazine of The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the South Indian film industry encompassing four languages, namely, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada. They were introduced in 1954, around the films released in 1952-53 and Filmfare Awards[1] initially recognizing the Hindi film industry. In 1964 awards were extended in Telugu, Tamil, Bengali and Marathi, around the films released in 1963. The inclusion of the Malayalam cinema in the awards came in 1967 while Kannada cinema was recognized in 1970. Each industry is given its own set of creative awards in annual ceremonies that have predominantly been held in Hyderabad and Chennai. Kamal Haasan and Uday Kiran hold the record for being the youngest to win the Best Actor award

For other uses, see Filmfare Awards (disambiguation).
Filmfare Awards South
Current: 66th Filmfare Awards South
The Black Lady
Awarded forBest in Film and Music
Sponsored byMultiple
LocationIndia
CountryIndia
Presented byFilmfare
First awarded1963
Last awarded2019
Most awardsKamal Hassan
Most nominationsShreya Ghoshal
WebsiteFilmfare Awards South
Television/radio coverage
NetworkStar India

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RelatedFilmfare Awards
Filmfare Awards East

Superlatives
Superlative Artist Record
Most individual wins Kamal Haasan 19 awards
Most individual nominations Shreya Ghoshal 44 nominations
Most direction awards K. Viswanath, K. Balachander 8 awards
Most music direction awards A. R. Rahman 17 awards
Most acting awards – Male Kamal Haasan 16 awards
Most acting awards – Female Lakshmi 7 awards
Most playback singer awards – Male Karthik 6 awards
Most playback singer awards – Female Shreya Ghoshal 10 awards

Records
Kamal Haasan has the record of 16 wins (top) in Best Actor Category and Lakshmi (bottom) have won the award 7 times in Best Actress Category. Both the actors have won at least one Filmfare in all four languages of Filmfare Awards South.

Most Awards for a film
Film No. of Awards
Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana 9[2]
Anniyan 8[3]

Most Awards for Best Director
Recipient No. of Awards
K. Viswanath 8
K. Balachander 8

Most Awards for Best Actor
Recipient No. of Awards
Kamal Haasan 16
Mammootty 12

Most Awards for Best Actress
Recipient No. of Awards
Lakshmi 7
Vijayashanti 6
Saritha 6

Most Awards for Best Actor - Critics
Recipient No. of Awards
Karthi 2
Dulquer Salmaan 2

Most Awards for Best Actress - Critics
Recipient No. of Awards
Sruthi Hariharan 2

Most Awards for Best Supporting Actor
Recipient No. of Awards
Jagapathi Babu 4
Achyuth Kumar
Saikumar		 3

Most Awards for Best Supporting Actress
Recipient No. of Awards
Saranya Ponvannan 5
Ramya Krishnan 3

Most Awards for Music Direction
Recipient No. of Awards
A. R. Rahman 17
Devi Sri Prasad 9

Most Awards for Male Singer
Recipient No. of Awards
Karthik 6
Vijay Yesudas 5

Most Awards for Female Singer
Recipient No. of Awards
Shreya Ghoshal 10
K. S. Chithra 8

History

The awards were first given in 1953 and the ceremony used to be held along with Bollywood Filmfare Awards. The awards were being held in the Kalaivanar Arangam, Chennai.[4] Later the ceremony shifted to the distinctive Music Academy.

In 1953 initially recognizing the Hindi film industry. In 1963 Awards extended to Best Picture in Telugu, Tamil, Bengali & Marathi, for the awards and from 1966 Malayalam films were added.[4] Kannada films became a part of the event in 1969.[4] In 1972 the awards were extended to Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director categories in all south Indian films.[5] The categories for Special Awards were introduced in the 1980s and Best Music Direction in 1990s. Lifetime Achievement Award – South was first given in 1983. Award for Best Male debut and Female debut were given irregularly during the same period. Categories for Best Male Playback Singing and Best Female Playback Singing were introduced in 1997 . In 2002, awards for Best Supporting actors were given for Telugu and Tamil films. Since 2005, these awards were extended to the Malayalam and Kannada film industries. In the same year, additional categories such as Best Lyricist, Best Playback Singing were also introduced. Awards for Best Comedian were given from 2002 till 2006 and discontinued later.

Statuette

The statuette, depicting a woman whose arms uprise in a dance number with her fingers touching, is commonly referred to as "The Black Lady" (or "The Lady in Black"). Originally designed by N.G. Phansare under the supervision of Times of India's art director Walter Langhammer, it is generally made of bronze, its height is 46.5 cm and it weighs around five kg.[6]

To celebrate the 25th year of the awards, the statues were made in silver and to celebrate the 50th year the statues were made in gold.[7]

Award Categories

As of 2006, there are a total of 10 categories across each of the four film industries.

Telugu cinema

Tamil cinema

Malayalam cinema

Kannada cinema

Technical awards

Special awards

Retired awards

Ceremonies

References
  1. "Filmfare Awards: Bollywood and Regional Film Awards". filmfare.com. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20161105005804/http://www.glamsham.com/movies/news/06/sep/13_53_fair_one_filmfare_south_awards.asp#
  3. https://www.glamsham.com/en/52nd-fair-one-filmfare-south-awards
  4. "Magadheera,Nadodigal,Josh bag top honours at the Filmfare awards". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
  5. Film world, Volume 9. T.M. Ramachandran. 1973.
  6. Pinto, Jerry (April 1997). "Tangy titbits from the Filmfare past". Filmfare. Archived from the original on 5 July 1998. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  7. "A golden glow for Filmfare". The Hindu. PTI. 28 January 2005. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
  8. "Winners: 64th Jio Filmfare Awards 2017 (South)". Times of India. 19 June 2017.
  9. Winners of the 63rd Britannia Filmfare Awards (South) Archived 2016-07-02 at the Wayback Machine
  10. https://archive.is/20170528093416/https://archive.org/details/34thAnnualFilmfareAwardsSouthWinners
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