Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Actor_–_Tamil

Filmfare Awards South for Best Actor
Filmfare Awards South for Best Actor
	The 2022 recipient: Suriya
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role – Tamil
Country	India
Presented by	Filmfare
First awarded	Sivaji Ganesan, ; Gnana Oli (1972)
Currently held by	Suriya ; Soorarai Pottru (2022)
Website	Filmfare Awards

Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil

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The Filmfare Best Actor Award is given by the Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Tamil film lead actors. The Filmfare Awards South Awards were extended to "Best Actor" in 1972.^[1] The year indicates the year of release of the film.

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Superlatives

Kamal Haasan has the record of 10 wins and most nominations with 31 (top) in this Category and Vikram (bottom) have won the award five times.

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Kamal Haasan with ten wins, has most number of awards than any other actor. Vikram has five wins, followed by Karthik and Dhanush with four wins. Four actors have won the award thrice in chronological order they are Sivaji Ganesan, Sarath Kumar Ajith Kumar and Suriya. Actors Sivakumar and Vijay Sethupathi has two wins each.
Vikram, Dhanush, Karthi, Suriya and R. Madhavan are the five actors to win both Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor and Vikram is the first actor to win this honour.
Sathyaraj, Suriya and R. Madhavan have won both Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Tamil.
Kamal Hassan was the most victorious actor with four wins in the 70s. Karthik ruled the 80s with two wins. In the 90s, Kamal Haasan outperformed every other actors with four wins. Vikram was the most successful actor with three wins in the 2000s. Dhanush was the most successful actor in the 2010s with four wins.
Seven actors have won the awards in consecutive years; in chronological order, they are Sivaji Ganesan (1972–1973), Kamal Haasan (1975–1978, 1991–1992 and 1995–1996), Sivakumar (1979–1980), Karthik (1988–1990), Sarathkumar (1997–1998), Dhanush (2011–2012) and Vijay Sethupathi (2017–2018).
Suriya and R. Madhavan are the two actors to have won Filmfare Awards South in three major actor categories : Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actor Critics which was achieved by them as of 2016 & 2017 respectively.
R. Madhavan became the first actor and the only actor to have won Filmfare Awards South in four different acting categories: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actor critics and Best Male Debut awards once each.
There was only one tie in 2018 between Dhanush and Vijay Sethupathi.
Karthi was the only actor to win the award for his debut performance in Tamil.
Kamal Haasan has a most nominations with 33, followed by Rajinikanth with 18.

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Superlative	Actor	Record
Actor with most awards	Kamal Haasan	10 wins
Actor with most nominations	Kamal Haasan	33 nominations
Actor with most consecutive years nominations	Kamal Haasan (1985–1996)	12 nominations
Oldest winner	Sivaji Ganesan	58
Oldest Nominee	Rajinikanth	66
Youngest winner	Kamal Haasan	21
Youngest Nominee	Dhanush and Kamal Haasan	21
Actors with most consecutive wins	Kamal Haasan	4 wins (1975–1978)
Actors with most nominations without a win	Vijay	8 nominations

Year	Recipient	Role	Film	Ref
1972	Sivaji Ganesan	Anthony	Gnana Oli	^[2]
1973	Sivaji Ganesan	• Rajinikanth • Kannan	Gauravam	^[3]
1974	Gemini Ganesan	David Ashirvadham	Naan Avanillai	^[4]
1975	Kamal Haasan	Prasanna	Apoorva Raagangal	^[5]
1976	Kamal Haasan	Ravi	Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu	^[6]
1977	Kamal Haasan	Gopalakrishnan	16 Vayadhinile	^[7]
1978	Kamal Haasan	Muthu / Dileep	Sigappu Rojakal	^[8]
1979	Sivakumar	Sempattai	Rosaappo Ravikkai Kaari	^[9]
1980	Sivakumar	Gaja	Vandichakkaram	^[10]
1981	Kamal Haasan	Raghu	Raja Paarvai	^[11]
1982	Mohan	Ravi Kumar	Payanangal Mudivathillai	^[12]^[13]
1983	K. Bhagyaraj	Shanmugamani	Mundhanai Mudichu	^[14]
1984	Rajinikanth	Manikkam	Nallavanukku Nallavan	^[13]
1985	Sivaji Ganesan	Malaichami	Muthal Mariyathai	^[15]
1986	Vijayakanth	Chinnamani	Amman Kovil Kizhakale	^[16]^[17]
1987	Sathyaraj	Balu Thevar	Vedham Pudhithu	^[18]
1988	Karthik	Ashok	Agni Natchathiram	^[19]
1989	Karthik	Kannan	Varusham Padhinaaru	^[20]^[19]^[21]
1990	Karthik	Ponnurangam	Kizhakku Vasal	^[22]^[23]^[19]
1991	Kamal Haasan	Gunasekharan	Guna	^[24]^[25]
1992	Kamal Haasan	Sakthivelu Thevar	Thevar Magan	^[26]
1993	Karthik	Ponnumani	Ponnumani	^[19]
1994	R. Sarathkumar	• Shanmugam • Pasupathi	Nattamai	^[27]^[28]
1995	Kamal Haasan	Adhi Narayanan	Kuruthipunal	^[25]
1996	Kamal Haasan	• Senapathy • Chandrabose	Indian	^[29]^[30]
1997	R. Sarathkumar	• Sakthivel Gounder • Chinnarasu	Suryavamsam	^[31]^[32]
1998	R. Sarathkumar	• Chinnayya • Muthaiyya	Natpukkaga	^[33]
1999	Ajith Kumar	• Deva • Shiva	Vaali	^[34]
2000	Kamal Haasan	Saket Raman Iyengar	Hey Ram	^[35]
2001	Vikram	Kasi	Kasi	^[36]
2002	Ajith Kumar	• Shiva • Vishnu	Villain	^[37]
2003	Vikram	Chithan	Pithamagan	^[38]
2004	Suriya	• Chinna • Karthik	Perazhagan	^[39]
2005	Vikram	Ramanujam / Remo / Anniyan	Anniyan	^[40]
2006	Ajith Kumar	• Shivashankar • Vishnu • Jeeva	Varalaaru	^[40]
2007	Karthi	Paruthiveeran	Paruthiveeran	^[41]
2008	Suriya	• Krishnan • Suriya Krishnan	Vaaranam Aayiram	^[42]
2009	Prakash Raj	Vengadam	Kanchivaram	^[43]
2010	Vikram	Veeraiya	Raavanan	^[44]
2011	Dhanush	K. P. Karuppu	Aadukalam	^[45]
2012	Dhanush	Raam	3	^[46]
2013	Atharvaa	Raasa	Paradesi	^[47]
2014	Dhanush	Raghuvaran	Velaiilla Pattadhari	^[48]
2015	Vikram	Lingesan	I	^[49]
2016	R. Madhavan	Prabhu Selvaraj	Irudhi Suttru	^[50]
2017	Vijay Sethupathi	Vedha	Vikram Vedha	^[51]
2018	Dhanush	Anbu	Vada Chennai	^[52]
2018	Vijay Sethupathi	Ram	'96	^[52]
2020 2021	Suriya	Nedumaaran Rajangam (Maara)	Soorarai Pottru	^[39]

Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Actor_–_Tamil

Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil

Superlatives

Multiple wins

Multiple nominations

Winners

Nominations

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

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