Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Malayalam

Filmfare Award for Best Actor
2023 winner: Mammootty for Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in Malayalam Films
Country	India
Presented by	Filmfare
First awarded	Madhu, Swayamvaram (1972)
Currently held by	Mammootty, Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam (2023)
Highlights
Most awards	Mammootty (13)
Total awarded	48
First winner	Madhu
Website	filmfare.com

The Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Malayalam is an award instituted in 1972,^[1][2] 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 2023 winner of the award is Mammootty also As of 2023, he leads the list with 13 wins.^[3]

Superlatives

Superlative	Actor	Record
Actor with most awards	Mammootty	13
Oldest winner	Premji	81
Oldest nominee
Youngest winner	Kamal Haasan	20
Youngest nominee

• Mammootty holds the record of winning an award in 5 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

• 13 Wins: Mammootty
• 08 Wins: Mohanlal
• 03 Wins: Madhu, Jayaram, Fahadh Faasil
• 02 Wins: Kamal Hassan, Pratap Pothen

Winners

Mammootty has won the award thirteen times.

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).

Year	Recipient	Role	Film(s)	Ref.
1972	Madhu	Vishwam	Swayamvaram	[4]
1973	P. J. Antony	Velichapad	Nirmalayam	[5]
1974	Kamal Haasan	Sankaran	Kanyakumari	[6]
1975	Adoor Bhasi	Vishwanatha Menon	Raagam	[7]
1976	Madhu	Vinod	Theekkanal	[8]
1977	Madhu		Yuddha Kaandam	[9]
1978	Kamal Haasan	Ramu	Yaetta	[10]
1979	Prathap Pothan	Thakara	Thakara	[11]
1980	Prathap Pothan	Vinod	Chamaram	[12]
1981	Nedumudi Venu	Xavier	Vida Parayum Munpe	[13]
1982	Bharath Gopi	Nandagopal	Ormakkayi	[14]
1983	Bharath Gopi	Prof. Shakespeare Krishna Pillai	Kattathe Kilikkoodu	[15]
1984	Mammootty	Karunan	Adiyozhukkukal	[16]
1985	Mammootty	Unnikrishnan	Yathra	[16]
1986	Mohanlal	Gopalakrishna Panikkar	Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam	[17]
1987	Nedumudi Venu	Ravunni Nair	Oru Minnaminunginte Nurunguvettam	[18][19]
1988	Mohanlal	*Soap Kuttappan *Maathu Pandaaram	Padamudra	[20]
1989	Premji	Raghava Chakyar	Piravi	[21][22][23]
1990	Mammootty	Vaikom Muhammad Basheer	Mathilukal	[24]
1991	Mammootty	Achootty	Amaram	[25]
1992	Murali	Bapputty	Aadharam	[26]
1993	Mohanlal	Mangalassery Neelakantan	Devaasuram	[27]
1994	Mohanlal	Unnikrishnan	Pavithram	[28]
1995	Mohanlal	Thomas "Aadu Thoma" Chacko	Sphadikam	[29]
1996	Jayaram	Mohanachandran Podhuval	Thooval Kottaram	[30]
1997	Mammootty	Vidyadharan	Bhoothakkannadi	[31]
1998	Balachandra Menon	Ismail	Samaantharangal	[32]
1999	Mohanlal	Kunjukuttan	Vanaprastham	[33]
2000	Mammootty	Raveendranath Menon	Arayannagalude Veedu	[34]
2001	Jayaram	Karunakaran	Theerthadanam	[35]
2002	Dileep	Meesa Madhavan	Meesa Madhavan	[36]
2003	Jayaram	Reji	Manassinakkare	[37]
2004	Mammootty	Madhavan	Kaazhcha	[38]
2005	Mohanlal	Ramesan Nair	Thanmathra	[39]
2006	Mammootty	Murugan	Karutha Pakshikal	[39]
2007	Mohanlal	Valiyakathu Moosa	Paradesi	[40]
2008	Lal	S. Raveendran Pillai	Thalappavu	[41]
2009	Mammootty	• Murikkum Kunnathu Ahmed Haji  • Haridas Ahmed  • Khalid Ahmed	Paleri Manikyam	[42]
2010	Mammootty	Chirammal Enashu Francis	Pranchiyettan & the Saint
2011	Salim Kumar	Abu	Adaminte Makan Abu	[43]
2012	Fahadh Faasil	Cyril C. Mathew	22 Female Kottayam	[44]
2013	Fahadh Faasil	Harikrishnan	North 24 Kaatham	[45]
2014	Mammootty	P. K. Venugopal	Varsham	[46]
2015	Mammootty	Pallikkal Narayanan	Pathemari	[47]
2016	Nivin Pauly	Biju Poulose	Action Hero Biju	[48]
2017	Fahadh Faasil	Prasad	Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum	[49]
2018	Joju George	Joseph	Joseph	[50]
2020 - 2021	Biju Menon	SI Ayyappan Nair	Ayyappanum Koshiyum	[51]
2022	Kunchacko Boban	Kozhummal Rajeevan	Nna Thaan Case Kodu	[52]
2023	Mammootty	James/Sundaram	Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam	[53]

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External links

• Filmfare Awards, indiatimes.com