2004–05 Karnataka State Film Awards

39th Karnataka State Film Awards
Announced on	21 September 2005 (2005-09-21)
Site	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Highlights
Best Direction	Indrajith Lankesh Monalisa
Best Actor	Sriimurali Kanti
Best Actress	Shruti Gowdru
Most awards	Rakshasa (4)

The 2004–05 Karnataka State Film Awards, presented by Government of Karnataka, to felicitate the best of Kannada Cinema released in the year 2004. The awards were announced on 21 September 2005.^[1][2][3]

Lifetime achievement award

Name of Award	Awardee(s)	Awarded As
• Dr. Rajkumar Award  • Puttanna Kanagal Award  • Lifetime Contribution to Kannada Cinema Award	• M. P. Shankar  • A. T. Raghu  • Vajramuni  • Chandulal Jain	• Supporting Actor, Producer, Writer  • Director  • Supporting Actor  • Producer

Jury

A committee headed by Kodalli Shivaram was appointed to evaluate the feature films awards.

Film Awards

Name of Award	Film	Producer	Director
First Best Film	Monalisa	K. S. Dushyanth	Indrajith Lankesh
Second Best Film	Beru	Navya Chithra	P. Sheshadri
Third Best Film	Gowdru	Sandesh Nagaraj	S. Mahendar
Best Film Of Social Concern	Haseena	Chiguru Chithra	Girish Kasaravalli
Best Children Film	Mithayi Mane		Aarathi

Other Awards

Name of Award	Film	Awardee(s)
Best Direction	Monalisa	Indrajith Lankesh
Best Actor	Kanti	Sri Murali
Best Actress	Gowdru	Shruthi
Best Supporting Actor	Rakshasa	Kishore
Best Supporting Actress	Gowdru	B. Jaya
Best Child Actor	Rakshasa	Aniruddh
Best Child Actress	Haseena	Bodhini Bhargavi
Best Music Direction	Rakshasa	Sadhu Kokila
Best Male Playback Singer	Srushti ("Hrudayada Thumba")	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Best Female Playback Singer	Maharaja ("Kandamma Kandamma")	K. S. Chithra
Best Cinematography	Encounter Dayanayak	H. C. Venugopal
Best Editing	Kanti	T. Shashikumar
Best Lyrics	Beru	• Lakshmipathi Kolar  • Krishnamurthy Hanur
Best Sound Recording	Rishi	Murali
Best Art Direction	Rakshasa	Dinesh Mangalore
Best Story Writer	Santhosha	M. R. Ramesh
Best Screenplay	Rishi	• Prakash  • M. S. Abhishek
Best Dialogue Writer	Santhosha	B. A. Madhu
Best Male Dubbing Artist	Katheyaada Kaala	Shivamurthy
Best Female Dubbing Artist	Ranga SSLC	Deepa
Jury's Special Award	Kanchana Ganga	Mutturaj (For Costume Design)

References

1. "Shruti, Murali bag Karnataka film awards". The Times of India. 22 September 2005. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
2. "Karnataka State Film Awards 2004-05". viggy.com. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
3. "Karnataka State Film Awards 2004-05". kannadamoviesinfo. Retrieved 8 August 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}