Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award – South

The Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South ceremony. Following is a list of the award recipients.The lifetime Achievement award south was first instituted in 1984 & those who are recognised Legendary filmmakers, artists, film personalities for outstanding contributions to Indian cinema.

Year	Honorees	Nature of work	Ref.
1984	Sowkar Janaki	Actress	^[1]
1985	Padmini	Actress	^[2]
1986	Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair	Lyricist	^[3]
1986	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	Playback Singer	^[3]
1987	Akkineni Nageswara Rao	Actor
1988	Bhanumathi Ramakrishna	Actress	^[4]^[5]
1989	Ilayaraja	Music Director	^[6]
1990	M. T. Vasudevan Nair	Screenplay Writer/Filmmaker	^[7]
1991	No award
1992	L. V. Prasad	Director / Producer	^[8]^[9]
1993	Gemini Ganesan	Actor	^[10]
1994	B. Saroja Devi	Actress	^[11]
	K. Balachander †	Director
	Madhu	Actor
	K. Viswanath †	Director
	Soumitra Chatterjee †	Actor
	Hrishikesh Mukherjee †	Director
1995	Nagesh	Actor	^[12]
1995	Manorama	Actress	^[12]
1996	Krishna	Actor	^[13]^[14]
1996	Sarada	Actress	^[13]^[14]
1997	S. Janaki	Singer	^[15]
1997	Nedumudi Venu	Actor	^[15]
1998	Lakshmi	Actress	^[16]
1998	Allu Ramalingaiah	Actor	^[16]
1999	Pandari Bai	Actress	^[17]
1999	Sundaram	Choreographer	^[17]
2000	D. Rama Naidu †	Producer
2000	Sheela	Actress
2001	M. S. Viswanathan	Music Director	^[18]
2001	Dasari Narayana Rao	Director	^[18]
2002	Vishnuvardhan	Actor	^[19]
2002	K. Raghavendra Rao	Director	^[19]
2003	Vijayashanti	Actress	^[20]
2003	K. J. Yesudas	Singer	^[20]
2004	K. R. Vijaya	Actress	^[21]
2004	Ramoji Rao	Producer	^[21]
2005	Thilakan	Actor
2005	Sukumari	Actress
2006	Krishnam Raju	Actor	^[22]^[23]
2006	P. Susheela	Singer	^[22]^[23]
2007	Sivakumar	Actor	^{[citation needed]}
2007	Jaya Prada	Actress	^{[citation needed]}
2008	Veturi	Lyricist	^{[citation needed]}
2009	Ambareesh	Actor	^[24]
2009	K. P. A. C. Lalitha	Actress	^[24]
2010	Chiranjeevi	Actor	^[25]^[26]^[27]
2010	Jayasudha	Actress	^[25]^[26]^[27]
2011	S. P. Muthuraman	Director	^[28]
2011	Seema	Actress	^[28]
2012	Bapu	Director	^[29]
2012	Vani Jairam	Singer	^[29]
2013	Balu Mahendra (posthumous)	Cinematographer
2013	Jayabharathi	Actress
2014	IV Sasi	Director	^[30]
2014	Radhika	Actress	^[30]
2015	Mohan Babu	Actor	^[31]
2016	Vijaya Nirmala	Actress
2017	Kaikala Satyanarayana	Actor	^[32]
2018	Hariharan	Director
2020–2021	Puneeth Rajkumar (posthumous)	Actor
2020–2021	Allu Aravind	Producer
2022	No award
2023	Srinath	Actor
2024	Sreenivasan (posthumous)	Actor	^[33]
2024	Sreekumaran Thampi	Director / Writer	^[33]

Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award – South

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