The Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South ceremony.

Year	Image	Honorees	Ref.
1984		Sowcar Janaki
1985		Padmini	[1]
1986		Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair	[2][3]
		S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
1988		Bhanumathi Ramakrishna	[4]
1989		Ilaiyaraaja	[5]
1990		M. T. Vasudevan Nair
1991	Not Awarded
1992		L. V. Prasad	[6][7]
1993		Gemini Ganesan	[8]
1994		K. Balachander	[9]
		K. Viswanath
		B. Saroja Devi
		Madhu
		Hrishikesh Mukherjee
		Soumitra Chatterjee
1995		Nagesh	[10]
		Manorama
1996		Krishna	[11]
	–	Sarada
1997		S. Janaki	[12]
		Nedumudi Venu
1998		Allu Ramalingaiah	[13]
		Lakshmi
1999		Pandari Bai	[14]
	–	Sundaram
2000		D. Rama Naidu
		Sheela
2001		M. S. Viswanathan	[15]
		Dasari Narayana Rao
2002		K. Raghavendra Rao	[16]
		Vishnuvardhan
2003		K. J. Yesudas	[17]
		Vijayashanti
2004	–	K. R. Vijaya	[18]
		Ramoji Rao
2005		Thilakan
		Sukumari
2006		Krishnam Raju	[19]
		P. Susheela
2007		Sivakumar	[20]
		Jaya Prada
2008		Veturi	[21]
2009		Ambareesh	[22]
		K. P. A. C. Lalitha
2010		Chiranjeevi	[23][24][25]
		Jayasudha
2011		S. P. Muthuraman	[26]
		Seema
2012		Bapu	[27]
		Vani Jairam
2013		Balu Mahendra
		Jayabharathi
2014		IV Sasi	[28]
		Radhika
2015		Mohan Babu	[29]
2016		Vijaya Nirmala
2017		Kaikala Satyanarayana	[30]
2018		Hariharan
2020–21		Puneeth Rajkumar
		Allu Aravind
2023		Srinath

• Filmfare Editorial (10 July 2014). "Lifetime Achievement Award (South) winners down the years..." Filmfare. Retrieved 29 August 2014. Here is a list of the legendary stars who won the Lifetime Achievement Award (South)

• 55th Filmfare Awards South Winners Archived 2 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine