Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award – South

The Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South ceremony.

Year	Image	Honorees	Ref.
1984		Sowcar Janaki
1985		Padmini	^[1]
1986		Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair	^[2]^[3]
1986		S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	^[2]^[3]
1988		Bhanumathi Ramakrishna	^[4]
1989		Ilaiyaraaja	^[5]
1990		M. T. Vasudevan Nair
1991	Not Awarded
1992		L. V. Prasad	^[6]^[7]
1993		Gemini Ganesan	^[8]
1994		K. Balachander	^[9]
		K. Viswanath
		B. Saroja Devi
		Madhu
		Hrishikesh Mukherjee
		Soumitra Chatterjee
1995		Nagesh	^[10]
1995		Manorama	^[10]
1996		Krishna	^[11]
1996	–	Sarada	^[11]
1997		S. Janaki	^[12]
1997		Nedumudi Venu	^[12]
1998		Allu Ramalingaiah	^[13]
1998		Lakshmi	^[13]
1999		Pandari Bai	^[14]
1999	–	Sundaram
2000		D. Rama Naidu
2000		Sheela
2001		M. S. Viswanathan	^[15]
2001		Dasari Narayana Rao	^[15]
2002		K. Raghavendra Rao	^[16]
2002		Vishnuvardhan	^[16]
2003		K. J. Yesudas	^[17]
2003		Vijayashanti	^[17]
2004	–	K. R. Vijaya	^[18]
2004		Ramoji Rao	^[18]
2005		Thilakan
2005		Sukumari
2006		Krishnam Raju	^[19]^[20]
2006		P. Susheela	^[19]^[20]
2007		Sivakumar	^[21]
2007		Jaya Prada	^[21]
2008		Veturi	^[22]
2009		Ambareesh	^[23]
2009		K. P. A. C. Lalitha	^[23]
2010		Chiranjeevi	^[24]^[25]^[26]
2010		Jayasudha	^[24]^[25]^[26]
2011		S. P. Muthuraman	^[27]
2011		Seema	^[27]
2012		Bapu	^[28]
2012		Vani Jairam	^[28]
2013		Balu Mahendra
2013		Jayabharathi
2014		IV Sasi	^[29]
2014		Radhika	^[29]
2015		Mohan Babu	^[30]
2016		Vijaya Nirmala
2017		Kaikala Satyanarayana	^[31]
2018		Hariharan
2020–21		Puneeth Rajkumar
2020–21		Allu Aravind
2023		Srinath

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