Filmfare Awards South

Filmfare Awards South
Current: 69th Filmfare Awards South
The Black Lady
Awarded for	Best in South Indian cinema
Sponsored by	Multiple
Location	India
Country	India
Presented by	Filmfare
First awarded	1963
Last awarded	2024
Most awards	A. R. Rahman, Kamal Haasan
Most nominations	Shreya Ghoshal
Website	Filmfare Awards
Television/radio coverage
Network	Star India (2000–19, 2024–present) Asianet (Malayalam) Star Maa (Telugu) Star Vijay (Tamil) Star Suvarna (Kannada) Zee Entertainment Enterprises (2022) Zee Kannada (Kannada) Zee Keralam (Malayalam) Zee Tamil (Tamil) Zee Telugu (Telugu)
Related	Filmfare Awards Filmfare Awards East Filmfare Marathi Awards

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.^[1] 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 Awards ceremony was held in Mumbai along with Hindi awards. From 1976, Southern region film awards were separated from Hindi and moved to Chennai.