| Filmfare Awards South | |
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| Current: 69th Filmfare Awards South | |
 The Black Lady | |
| Awarded for | Best in South Indian cinema |
| Sponsored by | Multiple |
| Location | India |
| Country | India |
| Presented by | Filmfare |
| First awarded | 1963 |
| Last awarded | 2024 |
| Most awards | A. R. Rahman, Kamal Haasan |
| Most nominations | Shreya Ghoshal |
| Website | Filmfare Awards |
| Television/radio coverage | |
| Network | Star India (2000–19, 2024–present)
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| Related | Filmfare Awards Filmfare Awards East Filmfare Marathi Awards |
The Filmfare Awards South are annual awards that honour artistic and technical excellence in the Telugu cinema, Tamil cinema, Malayalam cinema and Kannada cinema. They are presented by Filmfare magazine of The Times Group. When it was introduced in 1954, the Filmfare Awards initially only recognized achievements in the Hindi cinema. In 1964 the awards were extended to Telugu, Tamil, Bengali and Marathi languages.[1] Malayalam cinema was included in the awards in 1967 and Kannada cinema followed in 1970.
Each industry is given its own set of creative awards in annual ceremonies that have predominantly been held in Chennai and Hyderabad. Before 1976, the Awards ceremony was held in Mumbai along with Hindi awards. From 1976, Southern region film awards were separated from Hindi and moved to Chennai.
- ^ "11th Annual South Filmfare Awards Winners". 6 August 2024.