The 50th Filmfare Awards South ceremony honouring the winners and nominees of the best of South Indian cinema in films released 2002, is an event that was held at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad, 24 May 2003. The awards were distributed at Hyderabad.^[1]

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.

• Nithiin (Best Debut Award) Received Award from Namitha
• Shafi (Best Villain Award) Received Award from Ravi Teja
• Kalabhavan Mani (Best Villain Award) Received Award from Suriya
• Vivek (Best Comedian Award) Received Award from Kiran Rathod
• Sangeeta (Best Supporting Actress Award) Received Award from Jayanth C. Paranjee
• Sneha (Best Supporting Actress Award) Received Award from Aniruddha Jatkar
• Soundarya (Best Film Kannada) Received Award from D. Ramanaidu
• D Udhaya Kumar(Best Film Tamil) Received Award from Prabhu Deva
• Girish Kasaravalli (Best Director Kannada) Received Award from Uday Kiran
• Krishna Vamsi (Best Director Telugu) Received Award from Sunil Shetty
• Gurukiran (Best Music Director Kannada) Received Award from Sachiin J. Joshi
• Bharadwaj (Best Music Director Tamil) Received Award from Nagendra Babu
• Soundarya (Best Actress Kannada) Received Award from R. Sarathkumar
• Navya Nair (Best Actress Malayalam) Received Award from Khushbu
• Sadha (Best Actress Telugu) Received Award from Venkatesh Daggubati
• Sudeep (Best Actor Kannada) Received Award from Naghma
• Dileep (Best Actor Malayalam) Received Award from Ramya Krishnan
• Chiranjeevi father (Best Actor Telugu) Receive Chiranjeevi Award from K. Raghavendra Rao
• K. Raghavendra Rao (Lifetime Achievement Award) Received Award from Jeetendra and Jaya Prada
• Vishnuvardhan (Lifetime Achievement Award) Received Award from Jeetendra and Jaya Prada