Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu

Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu
Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu
	The 2022 recipient: Allu Arjun
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in Telugu films
Country	India
Presented by	Filmfare
First awarded	N. T. Rama Rao,; Badi Panthulu (1972)
Currently held by	Allu Arjun, ; Pushpa: The Rise (2020–2021)
Most awards	Chiranjeevi – 7
Most nominations	Chiranjeevi – 21
Website	Filmfare Awards

The Filmfare Best Actor Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Telugu films. The awards were extended to "Best Actor" in 1972.^[1] The year indicates the year of release of the film. Chiranjeevi is the most nominated with 21 nominations and the most awarded with seven times winning the award.

Superlatives[edit]

Superlative	Actor	Record
Most awards	Chiranjeevi	7 wins
Most nominations	Chiranjeevi	21 nominations
Most awards	Mahesh Babu	5
Most awards	Sobhan Babu, Venkatesh, Allu Arjun	4

Chiranjeevi with seven wins, has most awards than any other actor. Mahesh Babu has five wins, followed by Sobhan Babu, Venkatesh and Allu Arjun with four wins. Four actors have won the award thrice in chronological order they are Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Kamal Haasan and Krishnam Raju. Three actors Rajasekhar, N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan has two wins each. Akkineni Nageshwara Rao & Uday Kiran being the oldest & youngest actors to win the awards, at 68 and 21 respectively.
Allu Arjun and Venkatesh are the two actors to win both Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor – South.
Allu Arjun have won both Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Telugu.
Sobhan Babu was the most victorious actor with four wins in the 70s. Kamal Haasan ruled the 80s with three wins. In the 90s, Chiranjeevi outperformed every other actors with three wins. Chiranjeevi and Mahesh Babu were the two successful actors with two wins each in the 2000s. Mahesh Babu continued to be a most successful actor in the 2010s with three wins.
Two actors have won the awards in consecutive years; in chronological order, they are Sobhan Babu (1974–1976) and Chiranjeevi (1992–1993).
Allu Arjun is the only actor to have won Filmfare Awards South in three different acting categories: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor – Critics.
Chiranjeevi has the most nominations with 21, followed by Venkatesh with 18 and Nagarjuna with 16.
Allu Arjun Became the First and Only Actor to Win Filmfare Best Actor and National Film Award for Best Actor For the Same Film.

Multiple winners[edit]

7 Wins : Chiranjeevi
5 Wins : Mahesh Babu
4 Wins : Sobhan Babu, Venkatesh, Allu Arjun
3 Wins : Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Kamal Haasan, Krishnam Raju
2 Wins : Rajasekhar, N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan

Winners[edit]

Year	Recipient	Role	Film	Ref
2020–2021	Allu Arjun	Pushpa Raj	Pushpa: The Rise	^[2]
2018	Ram Charan	Chitibabu	Rangasthalam	^[3]
2017	Vijay Deverakonda	Dr. Arjun Reddy Deshmukh	Arjun Reddy	^[4]
2016	Jr. NTR	Abhiram	Nannaku Prematho	^[5]
2015	Mahesh Babu	Harsha Vardhan	Srimanthudu	^[6]
2014	Allu Arjun	Lucky	Race Gurram	^[7]
2013	Mahesh Babu	Chinnodu	Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu	^[8]
2012	Pawan Kalyan	Venkatarathnam Naidu / Gabbar Singh	Gabbar Singh	^[9]
2011	Mahesh Babu	G. Ajay Kumar / Chinna	Dookudu	^[10]
2010	Allu Arjun	Cable Raju	Vedam	^[11]
2009	Ram Charan	Harsha / Bhairava	Magadheera	^[12]
2008	Allu Arjun	Krishna	Parugu	^[13]
2007	Jr. NTR	Raja	Yamadonga	^[14]
2006	Mahesh Babu	Krishna Manohar / Pandu	Pokiri	^[15]
2005	Siddharth	Santosh	Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana	^[16]
2004	Chiranjeevi	Shankar Prasad	Shankar Dada M.B.B.S.	^[17]
2003	Mahesh Babu	Ajay Verma Rama	Okkadu Nijam	^[18]
2002	Chiranjeevi	Indrasena Reddy / Shankar Narayana	Indra	^[19]
2001	Uday Kiran	Ravi	Nuvvu Nenu	^[20]^[21]
2000	Venkatesh	• Mahadeva Naidu • Abhiram	Jayam Manade Raa	^[22]
1999	Chiranjeevi	• Simhadri • Chinnayya	Sneham Kosam	^[23]^[24]
1998	Venkatesh	Ganesh	Ganesh	^[25]
1997	Nagarjuna	Annamacharya	Annamayya	^[26]
1996	Venkatesh	Rakesh	Dharma Chakram	^[27]
1995	Mohan Babu	• Peddarayudu • Raja	Peddarayudu	^[28]
1994	Rajasekhar	Komaranna / Anna	Anna	^[29]^[30]
1993	Chiranjeevi	Subhash Chandra Bose	Muta Mesthri	^[31]
1992	Chiranjeevi	Madhava	Aapathbandavudu	^[32]^[33]
1991	Akkineni Nageswara Rao	Sitharamayya	Seetharamaiah Gari Manavaralu	^[34]^[35]
1990	Rajasekhar	Vikram	Magaadu	^[36]
1989	Kamal Haasan	• G. K. Rayudu • Chandram	Indrudu Chandrudu	^[37]
1988	Venkatesh	Shakti	Brahma Putrudu	^[38]
1987	Akkineni Nageswara Rao	Ananda Rao	Aatma Bandhuvulu	^[39]
1986	Krishnam Raju	Tandra Paparayudu	Tandra Paparayudu	^[40]^[41]
1985	Chiranjeevi	Madhusudhana Rao / Chinna Babu	Vijetha	^[42] ^[43]
1984	Krishnam Raju	• Brahmanna • Ravi	Bobbili Brahmanna	^[44]
1983	Kamal Haasan	Balakrishna	Saagara Sangamam	^[45]
1982	Chiranjeevi	Narasimha Murthy	Subhalekha	^[46]^[47]
1981	Kamal Haasan	Sundaram Ranga	Aakali Rajyam	^[48]
1980	J. V. Somayajulu	Sankarabharanam Sankara Sastry	Sankarabharanam	^[49]
1979	Sobhan Babu	• Sridhara Rao • Raja	Karthika Deepam	^[50]^[51]
1978	Chandra Mohan	Gopalakrishna	Padaharella Vayasu	^[52]
1977	Krishnam Raju	• Hari • Krishna	Amara Deepam	^[53]
1976	Sobhan Babu	Sobhanadri	Soggadu	^[54]^[55]^[56]
1975	Sobhan Babu	Narain	Jeevana Jyothi	^[57]^[58]
1974	Sobhan Babu	Raja	Khaidi Babayi	^[59]
1973	Akkineni Nageswara Rao	Abbi	Marapurani Manishi	^[60]
1972	Nandamuri Taraka Ramarao	Raghava Rao	Badi Panthulu	^[61]

Nominations[edit]

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v t e Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Actor
1972–1990	N. T. Rama Rao (1972) Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1973) Sobhan Babu (1974) Sobhan Babu (1975) Sobhan Babu (1976) Krishnam Raju (1977) Chandra Mohan (1978) Sobhan Babu (1979) Somayajulu (1980) Kamal Haasan (1981) Chiranjeevi (1982) Kamal Haasan (1983) Krishnam Raju (1984) Chiranjeevi (1985) Krishnam Raju (1986) Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1987) Krishnam Raju (1988) Kamal Haasan (1989) Rajasekhar (1990)
1991–2010	Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1991) Chiranjeevi (1992) Chiranjeevi (1993) Rajasekhar (1994) Mohan Babu (1995) Venkatesh (1996) Nagarjuna (1997) Venkatesh (1998) Chiranjeevi (1999) Venkatesh (2000) Uday Kiran (2001) Chiranjeevi (2002) Mahesh Babu (2003) Chiranjeevi (2004) Siddharth (2005) Mahesh Babu (2006) N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (2007) Allu Arjun (2008) Ram Charan (2009) Allu Arjun (2010)
2011–present	Mahesh Babu (2011) Pawan Kalyan (2012) Mahesh Babu (2013) Allu Arjun (2014) Mahesh Babu (2015) N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (2016) Vijay Deverakonda (2017) Ram Charan (2018) Allu Arjun (2020–2021)

Superlatives[edit]

Multiple winners[edit]

Winners[edit]

Nominations[edit]

1970s[edit]

1980s[edit]

1990s[edit]

2000s[edit]

2010s[edit]

2020s[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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