The 38th Filmfare Awards South Ceremony honouring the winners of the best of South Indian cinema in 1990 is an event held on 11 August 1991 was an event held at the Kamaraj Memorial Hall, Madras.^[1] The chief guest of the evening was The Governor of Tamil Nadu Mr. Bhishma Narain Singh and Actor Shatrughan Sinha.

• V. B. K. Menon (Best Film Malayalam) Received Award from Ramki
• K. A. Ashok Pai (Best Film Kannada) Received Award from Vani Ganapathy
• A. M. Rathnam (Best Film Telugu) Received Award from Nirosha
• R. B. Choudary (Best Film Tamil) Received Award from Balu Mahendra
• Bhadran (Best Director Malayalam) Received Award from Archana
• Suresh Heblikar (Best Director Kannada) Received Award from Gulshan Grover
• Mani Ratnam (Best Director Tamil) Received Award from Shilpa Shirodkar
• Ravindran (Best Music Director Malayalam) Received Award from Jayachitra
• S. A. Rajkumar (Best Music Director Kannada) & (Best Music Director Tamil) Received Award from Srividya
• Shobana (Best Actress Malayalam) Received Award from Shatrughan Sinha
• Suhasini (Best Actress Kannada) Received Award from Venkatesh
• Nirosha Received on behalf of sister Radhika Award (Best Actress Tamil) from G. Venkateswaran
• Mammootty (Best Actor Malayalam) Received Award from Rekha
• Rajasekhar (Best Actor Telugu) Received Award from Romu Sippy
• Karthik (Best Actor Tamil) Received Award from Poonam Sinha
• M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Special Award) Received Award from Bhishma Narain Singh