Filmfare Awards South

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Filmfare Awards South
58th Filmfare Awards South
Awarded for Best in film
Presented by Filmfare
Country India
First awarded

Filmfare Awards South is the South Indian segment of the annual Filmfare Awards, presented by The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the South Indian film industry. The awards are separately given for Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. The awards were first given in 1954 and the ceremony used to be held at the Kalaivanar Arangam, Chennai.[1] Initially only Tamil and Telugu films were considered for the awards and from 1966, Malayalam films were added.[1] Kannada films became a part of the event in 1969.[1] In 1972 the awards were extended to Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director categories in all south Indian films.[2]

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[edit] Superlatives

Awards are given in the following categories. Follow the links for lists of the award winners, year by year.

List of frequent winners
Artist Wins Nominations
Kamal Haasan
17 21
A. R. Rahman
13 17
K. Balachander
12 11
K. Viswanath
11 10
Mammootty
11 10
Rajkumar[3]
10 10
Chiranjeevi
9 7
Mohanlal
9 8
Lakshmi
9 8

[edit] Films

[edit] Consecutive wins

[edit] Ceremonies

[edit] Prizes

[edit] Creative awards

[edit] Tamil cinema

[edit] Telugu cinema

[edit] Malayalam cinema

[edit] Kannada cinema

[edit] Technical awards

[edit] Special awards

[edit] Retired awards

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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