Filmfare Award for Best Actor
2022 winner: Biju Menon for Ayyappanum Koshiyum
Awarded forBest Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in Malayalam Films
CountryIndia
Presented byFilmfare
First awardedMadhu,
Swayamvaram (1972)
Currently held byBiju Menon,
Ayyappanum Koshiyum (2022)
Highlights
Most awardsMammootty (12)
Total awarded48
First winnerMadhu
Websitefilmfare.com

The Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Malayalam is an award instituted in 1972, presently annually at the Filmfare Awards South to an actor via a jury. This given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for performers in Malayalam cinema. The award was first given in 1972. The 2022 winner of the award is Biju Menon. As of 2021, Mammootty leads the list with 12 wins.[1]

Superlatives

Superlative Actor Record
Actor with most awards Mammootty 12
Oldest winner Premji 81
Oldest nominee
Youngest winner Kamal Haasan 20
Youngest nominee
  • Mammootty holds the record of winning an award in 4 decades.
  • Premji and Mammootty are the only actors to win a Best Actor award for portraying a real person. Premji won in 1989 for portraying Professor Raghava Chakyar in Piravi and Mammootty in 1990 for portraying Vaikom Muhammad Basheer in Mathilukal (1990).
  • Mammootty triumphed in the 2000s with 4 wins. Mammootty again led the 2010s with 3 wins to his credit.
  • Mammootty holds a record of receiving nominations in this category in 5 decades (1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s).
  • Only one actor has won the Best Actor award for their debut performance: Premji for Piravi (1989)
  • Mohanlal holds the record for most consecutive wins, having won the award for three years in a row from 1993 to 1995. Five other actors have won the award in consecutive years; in chronological order, they are Madhu (1976–77), Pratap Pothen (1979–80), Bharat Gopi (1982–83), Mammootty (1984–85), Mammootty (1998–99), and Mammootty (1990–91), Mammootty (2009–10), Fahadh Faasil (2012–13) and Mammootty (2014–15).
  • Kamal Haasan became the youngest Best Actor winner in the history of the award at the age of 20 for Kanyakumari (1974).
  • Kamal Haasan and Madhu achieved supremacy in the 1970s with 2 wins, each. In the 1980s with 2 wins Bharat Gopi, Mammootty and Mohanlal reigned. Mammootty and Mohanlal continued their domination in the 1990s with 3 wins each.

Multiple winners

Winners

Mammootty has won the award twelve times.
Photograph of Mohanlal in a black T-shirt
Mohanlal has won the award eight times.
Kamal Haasan is the youngest recipient of the award (at age 20), for his role in Kanyakumari (1974).
YearRecipientRoleFilm(s)Ref.
1972MadhuVishwamSwayamvaram[2]
1973P. J. AntonyVelichapadNirmalayam[3]
1974Kamal HaasanSankaranKanyakumari[4]
1975Adoor BhasiVishwanatha MenonRaagam[5]
1976MadhuVinodTheekkanal[6]
1977MadhuYuddha Kaandam[7]
1978Kamal HaasanRamuYaetta[8]
1979Prathap PothanThakaraThakara[9]
1980Prathap PothanVinodChamaram[10]
1981Nedumudi VenuXavierVida Parayum Munpe[11]
1982Bharath GopiNandagopalOrmakkayi[12]
1983Bharath GopiProf. Shakespeare Krishna PillaiKattathe Kilikkoodu[13]
1984MammoottyKarunanAdiyozhukkukal[14]
1985MammoottyUnnikrishnanYathra[14]
1986MohanlalGopalakrishna PanikkarSanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam[15]
1987Nedumudi VenuRavunni NairOru Minnaminunginte Nurunguvettam[16][17]
1988Mohanlal*Soap Kuttappan

*Maathu Pandaaram

 Padamudra[18]
1989PremjiRaghava ChakyarPiravi[19][20]
1990MammoottyVaikom Muhammad BasheerMathilukal[21]
1991MammoottyAchoottyAmaram[22]
1992MuraliBapputtyAadharam[23]
1993MohanlalMangalassery NeelakantanDevaasuram[24]
1994MohanlalUnnikrishnanPavithram[25][26]
1995MohanlalThomas "Aadu Thoma" ChackoSphadikam[27]
1996JayaramMohanachandran PodhuvalThooval Kottaram[28]
1997MammoottyVidyadharanBhoothakkannadi[29]
1998Balachandra MenonIsmailSamaantharangal[30]
1999MohanlalKunjukuttanVanaprastham[31]
2000MammoottyRaveendranath MenonArayannagalude Veedu[32]
2001JayaramKarunakaranTheerthadanam[33]
2002DileepMeesa MadhavanMeesa Madhavan[34]
2003JayaramRejiManassinakkare[35]
2004MammoottyMadhavanKaazhcha[36]
2005MohanlalRamesan NairThanmathra[37]
2006MammoottyMurugan Karutha Pakshikal[37]
2007MohanlalValiyakathu MoosaParadesi[38]
2008LalS. Raveendran Pillai Thalappavu[39]
2009Mammootty • Murikkum Kunnathu Ahmed Haji
 • Haridas Ahmed
 • Khalid Ahmed		 Paleri Manikyam[40]
2010MammoottyChirammal Enashu Francis Pranchiyettan & the Saint
2011Salim KumarAbu Adaminte Makan Abu[41]
2012Fahadh FaasilCyril C. Mathew 22 Female Kottayam[42]
2013Fahadh FaasilHarikrishnan North 24 Kaatham[43]
2014MammoottyP. K. Venugopal Varsham[44]
2015MammoottyPallikkal Narayanan Pathemari[45]
2016Nivin PaulyBiju Poulose Action Hero Biju[46]
2017Fahadh FaasilPrasadThondimuthalum Driksakshiyum[47]
2018 Joju George Joseph Joseph [48]
2021 - 2022Biju MenonSI Ayyappan NairAyyappanum Koshiyum [49]

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