The V. Shantaram Special Contribution Award, instituted in 2009 for the Maharashtra State Film Awards is an award given by the Government of Maharashtra to long-serving film personalities in Marathi cinema. It was named V. Shantaram in honour of V. Shantaram, one of the successful Marathi filmmaker.

Year	Image	Winner	Field of work	Ref
2009		Mahesh Kothare	Director, actor, writer	[1]
2010		Sachin	Director, actor, singer
2011	–	Smita Talwalkar	Director, actress, producer	[2]
2012		Dilip Prabhavalkar	Actor
2013		Reema Lagoo	Actress	[3]
2014		Sonali Kulkarni	Actress	[4]
2015	–	Alka Kubal	Actress	[5]
2016	–	Arun Nalawade	Actor
2017		Mrinal Kulkarni	Actress, director	[6]
2018		Bharat Jadhav	Actor	[7]
2019	Not awarded
2020		Gajendra Ahire	Director, screenwriter
2021		Ravindra Sathe	Singer
2022		Nagraj Manjule	Director, screenwriter, actor
2023	–	Digpal Lanjekar	Director, actor

• Maharashtra State Film Awards

• Maharashtra State Film Awards at IMDb