Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Malayalam

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

• 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

• 12 Wins: Mammootty
• 8 Wins: Mohanlal
• 3 Wins: Madhu, Jayaram, Fahad Fasil
• 2 Wins: Kamal Hassan

Winners

Mammootty has won the award twelve 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).

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External links

• Filmfare Awards, indiatimes.com