Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Malayalam

Filmfare Award for Best Actor
Awarded forBest Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in Malayalam Films
CountryIndia
Presented byFilmfare
First awardedMadhu,
Swayamvaram (1972)
Currently held byMammootty,
Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam (2023)
Highlights
Most awardsMammootty (13)
Total awarded48
First winnerMadhu
Websitefilmfare.com

The Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Malayalam is an award instituted in 1972,[1][2] presently annually at the Filmfare Awards South to an actor via a jury. This given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for performers in Malayalam cinema. The award was first given in 1972. The 2023 winner of the award is Mammootty also As of 2023, he leads the list with 13 wins.[3]

Superlatives

Superlative Actor Record
Actor with most awards Mammootty 13
Oldest winner Premji 81
Oldest nominee
Youngest winner Kamal Haasan 20
Youngest nominee
  • Mammootty holds the record of winning an award in 5 decades.
  • Premji and Mammootty are the only actors to win a Best Actor award for portraying a real person. Premji won in 1989 for portraying Professor Raghava Chakyar in Piravi and Mammootty in 1990 for portraying Vaikom Muhammad Basheer in Mathilukal (1990).
  • Mammootty triumphed in the 2000s with 4 wins. Mammootty again led the 2010s with 3 wins to his credit.
  • Mammootty holds a record of receiving nominations in this category in 5 decades (1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s).
  • Only one actor has won the Best Actor award for their debut performance: Premji for Piravi (1989)
  • Mohanlal holds the record for most consecutive wins, having won the award for three years in a row from 1993 to 1995. Five other actors have won the award in consecutive years; in chronological order, they are Madhu (1976–77), Pratap Pothen (1979–80), Bharat Gopi (1982–83), Mammootty (1984–85), Mammootty (1998–99), and Mammootty (1990–91), Mammootty (2009–10), Fahadh Faasil (2012–13) and Mammootty (2014–15).
  • Kamal Haasan became the youngest Best Actor winner in the history of the award at the age of 20 for Kanyakumari (1974).
  • Kamal Haasan and Madhu achieved supremacy in the 1970s with 2 wins, each. In the 1980s with 2 wins Bharat Gopi, Mammootty and Mohanlal reigned. Mammootty and Mohanlal continued their domination in the 1990s with 3 wins each.

Multiple winners

Winners

Mammootty has won the award thirteen times.
Photograph of Mohanlal in a black T-shirt
Mohanlal has won the award eight times.
Kamal Haasan is the youngest recipient of the award (at age 20), for his role in Kanyakumari (1974).
Year Recipient Role Film(s) Ref.
1972 Madhu Vishwam Swayamvaram [4]
1973 P. J. Antony Velichapad Nirmalayam [5]
1974 Kamal Haasan Sankaran Kanyakumari [6]
1975 Adoor Bhasi Vishwanatha Menon Raagam [7]
1976 Madhu Vinod Theekkanal [8]
1977 Madhu Yuddha Kaandam [9]
1978 Kamal Haasan Ramu Yaetta [10]
1979 Prathap Pothan Thakara Thakara [11]
1980 Prathap Pothan Vinod Chamaram [12]
1981 Nedumudi Venu Xavier Vida Parayum Munpe [13]
1982 Bharath Gopi Nandagopal Ormakkayi [14]
1983 Bharath Gopi Prof. Shakespeare Krishna Pillai Kattathe Kilikkoodu [15]
1984 Mammootty Karunan Adiyozhukkukal [16]
1985 Mammootty Unnikrishnan Yathra [16]
1986 Mohanlal Gopalakrishna Panikkar Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam [17]
1987 Nedumudi Venu Ravunni Nair Oru Minnaminunginte Nurunguvettam [18][19]
1988 Mohanlal *Soap Kuttappan

*Maathu Pandaaram

Padamudra [20]
1989 Premji Raghava Chakyar Piravi [21][22][23]
1990 Mammootty Vaikom Muhammad Basheer Mathilukal [24]
1991 Mammootty Achootty Amaram [25]
1992 Murali Bapputty Aadharam [26]
1993 Mohanlal Mangalassery Neelakantan Devaasuram [27]
1994 Mohanlal Unnikrishnan Pavithram [28]
1995 Mohanlal Thomas "Aadu Thoma" Chacko Sphadikam [29]
1996 Jayaram Mohanachandran Podhuval Thooval Kottaram [30]
1997 Mammootty Vidyadharan Bhoothakkannadi [31]
1998 Balachandra Menon Ismail Samaantharangal [32]
1999 Mohanlal Kunjukuttan Vanaprastham [33]
2000 Mammootty Raveendranath Menon Arayannagalude Veedu [34]
2001 Jayaram Karunakaran Theerthadanam [35]
2002 Dileep Meesa Madhavan Meesa Madhavan [36]
2003 Jayaram Reji Manassinakkare [37]
2004 Mammootty Madhavan Kaazhcha [38]
2005 Mohanlal Ramesan Nair Thanmathra [39]
2006 Mammootty Murugan Karutha Pakshikal [39]
2007 Mohanlal Valiyakathu Moosa Paradesi [40]
2008 Lal S. Raveendran Pillai Thalappavu [41]
2009 Mammootty  • Murikkum Kunnathu Ahmed Haji
 • Haridas Ahmed
 • Khalid Ahmed 		Paleri Manikyam [42]
2010 Mammootty Chirammal Enashu Francis Pranchiyettan & the Saint
2011 Salim Kumar Abu Adaminte Makan Abu [43]
2012 Fahadh Faasil Cyril C. Mathew 22 Female Kottayam [44]
2013 Fahadh Faasil Harikrishnan North 24 Kaatham [45]
2014 Mammootty P. K. Venugopal Varsham [46]
2015 Mammootty Pallikkal Narayanan Pathemari [47]
2016 Nivin Pauly Biju Poulose Action Hero Biju [48]
2017 Fahadh Faasil Prasad Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum [49]
2018 Joju George Joseph Joseph [50]
2020 - 2021 Biju Menon SI Ayyappan Nair Ayyappanum Koshiyum [51]
2022 Kunchacko Boban Kozhummal Rajeevan Nna Thaan Case Kodu [52]
2023 Mammootty James/Sundaram Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam [53]

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