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Filmfare Awards South

{{Short description|Indian film awards}}

{{other uses|Filmfare Awards (disambiguation)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}}

{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}

{{Infobox award

| name = Filmfare Awards South

| current_awards = 69th Filmfare Awards South

| image = Filmfare Awards South 2011.png

| imagesize =

| caption =

| awarded_for = Best in South Indian cinema

| presenter = Filmfare

| country = India

| network = Star India (2000–19, 2024–present)
{{ubl|Asianet (Malayalam)|Star Maa (Telugu)|Star Vijay (Tamil)| Star Suvarna (Kannada)}}

Zee Entertainment Enterprises (2022)
{{ubl|Zee Kannada (Kannada)|Zee Keralam (Malayalam)|Zee Tamil (Tamil)| Zee Telugu (Telugu)}}

| year = {{ubl| Tamil (1963) | Telugu (1963) | |Malayalam (1966) | Kannada (1969)}}

| website = [http://www.filmfare.com/ Filmfare Awards]

| location = India

| lastawarded = 2024

| firstawarded = 1963

| sponsor = Multiple

| most_wins = A. R. Rahman, Kamal Haasan

| most_nominations = Shreya Ghoshal

| related = Filmfare Awards
Filmfare Awards East
Filmfare Marathi Awards

| image caption = The trophy presented to winners

}}

The Filmfare Awards South are annual awards that honour artistic and technical excellence in the Telugu cinema, Tamil cinema, Malayalam cinema and Kannada cinema. They are presented by Filmfare magazine of The Times Group. When it was introduced in 1954, the Filmfare Awards initially only recognized achievements in the Hindi cinema. In 1964 the awards were extended to Telugu, Tamil, Bengali and Marathi languages.{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/11th-annual-south-filmfare-awards-winners | title=11th Annual South Filmfare Awards Winners | date=6 August 2024 }} Malayalam cinema was included in the awards in 1967 and Kannada cinema followed in 1970.

Each industry is given its own set of creative awards in annual ceremonies that have predominantly been held in Chennai and Hyderabad. Before 1976, the ceremony was held in Mumbai along with Hindi segment. From 1976, the southern region segment were separated from Hindi and moved to Chennai and later to Hyderabad.

History

The awards were first given in 1953 and the ceremony used to be held along with Hindi cinema's Filmfare Awards. The awards were being held in the Kalaivanar Arangam, Chennai in the early days.{{cite news|title=Magadheera,Nadodigal,Josh bag top honours at the Filmfare awards|newspaper=The Times of India|url=http://lite.epaper.timesofindia.com/mobile.aspx?article=yes&pageid=3§id=edid=&edlabel=ETBG&mydateHid=09-08-2010&pubname=&edname=&articleid=Ar00300&publabel=ET|url-status=dead|access-date=7 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009113937/http://lite.epaper.timesofindia.com/mobile.aspx?article=yes&pageid=3§id=edid=&edlabel=ETBG&mydateHid=09-08-2010&pubname=&edname=&articleid=Ar00300&publabel=ET|archive-date=9 October 2011|df=dmy-all}} Later the ceremony was shifted to the distinctive Music Academy.

In 1953, initially only the Hindi film industry was recognized.{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/images/Documents/113_1stNfacatalogue.pdf|title=1st National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=2 September 2020|archive-date=25 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725173137/http://dff.nic.in/images/Documents/113_1stNfacatalogue.pdf|url-status=live}} In 1963 Awards extended to Best Picture in Telugu, Tamil, Bengali & Marathi, for the awards and from 1966 Malayalam films were added. Kannada films became a part of the event in 1969. In 1972 the awards were extended to Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director categories in all south Indian films.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IXlTAAAAYAAJ&q=Sivaji+Ganesan+and+Jayalalitha%29%2C+Telugu+%28G.|title=Film world, Volume 9|publisher=T.M. Ramachandran|year=1973}} 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 was discontinued later.

Statuette

The statuette, depicting a woman whose arms uprise in a dance number with her fingers touching, is commonly referred to as "Black Lady" (or "The Lady in Black"). Originally designed by N.G. Pansare under the supervision of The 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.{{cite journal|author=Pinto, Jerry|date=April 1997|title=Tangy titbits from the Filmfare past|url=http://www.filmfare.com/site/apr97/fact1.htm|url-status=dead|journal=Filmfare|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980705041114/http://www.filmfare.com/site/apr97/fact1.htm|archive-date=5 July 1998|access-date=2012-01-13}}

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.{{cite news|date=2005-01-28|title=A golden glow for Filmfare|newspaper=The Hindu|agency=PTI|url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/28/stories/2005012811310500.htm|url-status=dead|access-date=2011-01-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050302190604/http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/28/stories/2005012811310500.htm|archive-date=2005-03-02}}

The Red Carpet

The Red Carpet is a segment that takes place before the beginning of the actual ceremony.{{Cite news|title=66th Yamaha Fascino Filmfare Awards South 2019: These ladies scorched the red carpet in their stunning ensembles – Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/66th-yamaha-fascino-filmfare-awards-south-2019-these-ladies-scorched-the-red-carpet-in-their-stunning-ensembles/articleshow/72925868.cms|access-date=2021-07-13|website=The Times of India|date=23 December 2019 |language=en}} This is where actors, actresses, producers, directors, singers, composers, and others that have contributed to Indian cinema are introduced. Hosts question the celebrities about upcoming performances and who they think deserves to take the Black Lady home.{{Cite web|date=2019-12-21|title=66th Yamaha Fascino Filmfare Awards South: Ravishing Divas on the Red Carpet (PHOTOS)|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/66th-yamaha-fascino-filmfare-awards-south-ravishing-divas-on-the-red-carpet-photos/photostory/72918573.cms|access-date=2021-07-13|website=The Times of India|language=en}}

Superlatives

class="wikitable"
Superlative

! Artist

! Record

rowspan=2|Most individual wins

| A. R. Rahman

| rowspan=2|18 awards

Kamal Haasan
Most individual nominations

| Shreya Ghoshal

| 48 nominations

rowspan=2|Most direction awards

| K. Viswanath

| rowspan=2|8 awards

K. Balachander
Most music direction awards

|A. R. Rahman

| 18 awards

Most acting awards – Male

| Kamal Haasan

| 17 awards

Most acting awards – Female

| Lakshmi

| 8 awards

Most playback singer awards – Male

| Karthik

| 6 awards

rowspan=2|Most playback singer awards – Female

|K. S. Chithra

|rowspan=2|10 awards

Shreya Ghoshal

Records

=Most Awards for a film=

class="wikitable"

|+

!No. of Awards

!Film

rowspan=2|9

|Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana

RRR
rowspan=3|8

|Anniyan

Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
Soorarai Pottru

=Most Awards for Best Director=

class="wikitable"

|+

!No. of Awards

!Recipient

!Image

rowspan=2|8

|K. Viswanath

|60px

K. Balachander

|60px

=Most Awards for Best Actor=

class="wikitable"

!No. of Awards

!Recipient

! Image

17

|Kamal Haasan

|File:Kamal Haasan at Promotions of 'Vishwaroop' with Videocon (03).jpg

=Most Awards for Best Actress=

class="wikitable"

!No. of Awards

!Recipient

!Image

7

|Lakshmi

|60px

=Most Awards for Best Actor – Critics=

class="wikitable"

!No. of Awards

!Recipient

! Image

3

|Dulquer Salmaan

|60px

=Most Awards for Best Actress – Critics=

class="wikitable"

!No. of Awards

!Recipient

!Image

rowspan=5|2

|Nithya Menon

|60px

Sruthi Hariharan

|60px

Sai Pallavi

|60px

Jyothika

|60px

Aishwarya Rajesh

|60px

=Most Awards for Best Supporting Actor=

class="wikitable"

!No. of Awards

!Recipient

!Image

rowspan=2|4

|Jagapathi Babu

|60px

Achyuth Kumar

|

=Most Awards for Best Supporting Actress=

class="wikitable"

!No. of Awards

!Recipient

!Image

5

|Saranya Ponvannan

|60px

=Most Awards for Music Direction=

class="wikitable"

!No. of Awards

!Recipient

!Image

18

|A. R. Rahman

|60px

=Most Awards for Lyricist=

class="wikitable"

!No. of Awards

!Recipient

!Image

6

|Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry

|60px

=Most Awards for Male Singer=

class="wikitable"

!No. of Awards

!Recipient

!Image

6

|Karthik

|60px

=Most Awards for Female Singer=

class="wikitable"

!No. of Awards

!Recipient

!Image

rowspan=2|10

|K. S. Chithra

|60px

Shreya Ghoshal

| 60px

=Most Awards for Cinematographer=

class="wikitable"

!No. of Awards

!Recipient

!Image

4

|K. K. Senthil Kumar

|60px

=Most Awards for Choreographer=

class="wikitable"

!No. of Awards

!Recipient

!Image

6

|Prem Rakshith

|

=Most Awards for Production Designer=

class="wikitable"

!No. of Awards

!Recipient

!Image

4

|Sabu Cyril

|60px

Award Categories

= Creative awards =

== [[Telugu cinema]] ==

== [[Tamil cinema]] ==

==[[Malayalam cinema]]==

== [[Kannada cinema]] ==

= Technical awards =

= Special awards =

= Retired awards =

Ceremonies

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

{{Commons category}}

  • {{Official website|https://www.filmfare.com/awards/}}
  • {{IMDb event|0001531|Filmfare Awards South}}

{{Filmfare Awards South}}

{{Filmfare Awards}}

{{Film and Television Awards in India}}

{{The Times Group}}

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Category:Indian film awards

Category:Events of The Times Group

Category:Awards established in 1964

Category:1964 establishments in Madras State

Category:South India

Category:Telugu film awards

Category:Tamil film awards