Filmfare Special Award – South

The Filmfare Special Jury Award is given by the Filmfare Magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for South Indian films. It was decided on 17th Annual Filmfare Awards and started from 20th Annual Filmfare Awards held in 1973. It acknowledges a special and unique performance and encourages artistes, filmmakers and musicians to break new ground in drama, direction, music and acting. From 2011 Critics Award for Best Actor Started irregularly. In 2015 Critics Award for Best Actor & Best Actress become regularly in all four language.

Year	Recipient(s)		Film	Language	Refs
2009	Yuvan Shankar Raja Srinagar Kitty Mohanlal Yagna Shetty	Music director Actor Actor Actress	Oye! (for Outstanding Score) Savaari Bhramaram Eddelu Manjunatha	Telugu Kannada Malayalam Kannada	[1]
2006	Mammootty Chiranjeevi	Actors	Legends (Honorary Award)	Telugu Malayalam	[2] [3]
2005	Devi Sri Prasad Harris Jayaraj	Music directors	Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana Ghajini for outstanding background score	Telugu Tamil
2003	K. Muralitharan V. Swaminathan G. Venugopal	Producer	Anbe Sivam	Tamil	[4]
2000	Venkatesh	Actor	Kalisundam Raa	Telugu	[5]
1999	Vikram	Actor	Sethu	Tamil	[6]
1998	Ramoji Rao	Producer	Contributions	Telugu	[7] [8]
1995	Akhil Akkineni	Child Actor	Sisindri	Telugu	[9]
1986	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	Singer	For Outstanding Achievement as a Playback Singer	All South Indian languages	[10] [11]
1985	Puneeth Rajkumar	Child Actor	Bettada Hoovu	Kannada	[12]
1984	Vishnuvardhan	Actor	Bandhana	Kannada	[13]
1983	Revathi	Actress	Man Vasanai	Tamil	[14]
1978	Lakshmi	Actress	Panthulamma	Telugu	[15]
1977	Sridevi	Actress	16 Vayathinile	Tamil	[16]
1976	Jaya Prada Gummadi Prem Nazir K. G. George	Actress Actor Actor Director	Siri Siri Muvva & Anthuleni Katha Excellent performance in Jyothi Various films Swapnadanam for Special Commendation Award	Telugu Telugu Malayalam Malayalam	[17] [18] [19] [20] [21]
1975	Srividya Dasari Narayana Rao	Actress Director	Apoorva Raagangal Swargam Narakam & Balipeetam	Tamil Telugu	[22] [23]
1974	K. R. Vijaya	Actress	Dheerga Sumangali	Tamil	[24]
1974	Upasane	Film	Rashi Brothers	Kannada
1973	Vishnuvardhan M. G. Ramachandran	Actor Producer	Nagarahavu Ulagam Sutrum Valiban for Excellent Production Values	Kannada Tamil	[25] [26] [27] [28]
1972	Jamuna	Actress	Pandanti Kapuram	Telugu	[29]

See also

• Filmfare Awards South

References

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