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. Following is a list of the award recipients.

Year	Image	Honorees	Nature of work	Age when awarded	Ref.
1992		L. V. Prasad	Director / Producer	86	[1][2]
1993		Gemini Ganesan	Actor	73	[3]
1994		B. Saroja Devi	Actress	57	[4]
		K. Balachander †	Director	65
		Madhu	Actor	62
		K. Viswanath †	Director	65
		Soumitra Chatterjee †	Actor	60
		Hrishikesh Mukherjee †	Director	72
1995		Nagesh	Actor	62	[5]
		Manorama	Actress	59
1996		Krishna	Actor	54	[6][7]
	–	Sarada	Actress	52
1997		S. Janaki	Singer	60	[8]
		Nedumudi Venu	Actor	50
1998		Lakshmi	Actress	51	[9]
		Allu Ramalingaiah	Actor	76
1999		Pandari Bai	Actress	71	[10]
	–	Sundaram	Choreographer	64
2000		D. Rama Naidu †	Producer	64
		Sheela	Actress	56
2001		M. S. Viswanathan	Music Director	73	[11]
		Dasari Narayana Rao	Director	59
2002		Vishnuvardhan	Actor	52	[12]
		K. Raghavendra Rao	Director	61
2003		Vijayashanti	Actress	37	[13]
		K. J. Yesudas	Singer	64
2004	–	K. R. Vijaya	Actress	56	[14]
		Ramoji Rao	Producer	68
2005		Thilakan	Actor	71
		Sukumari	Actress	65
2006		Krishnam Raju	Actor	67	[15][16]
		P. Susheela	Singer	72
2007		Sivakumar	Actor	66
		Jaya Prada	Actress	46
2008		Veturi	Lyricist	73
2009		Ambareesh	Actor	58	[17]
		K. P. A. C. Lalitha	Actress	63
2010		Chiranjeevi	Actor	55	[18][19][20]
		Jayasudha	Actress	52
2011		S. P. Muthuraman	Director	77	[21]
		Seema	Actress	55
2012		Bapu	Director	79	[22]
		Vani Jairam	Singer	67
2013		Balu Mahendra (posthumous)	Cinematographer	74
		Jayabharathi	Actress	60
2014		IV Sasi	Director	67	[23]
		Radhika	Actress	52
2015		Mohan Babu	Actor	64	[24]
2016		Vijaya Nirmala	Actress	71
2017		Kaikala Satyanarayana	Actor	82	[25]
2018		Hariharan	Director	64
2020/2021		Puneeth Rajkumar (posthumous)	Actor	46
		Allu Aravind	Producer	73
2022	No award
2023		Srinath	Actor	80

• Filmfare Editorial (10 July 2014). "Lifetime Achievement Award (South) winners down the years..." Filmfare. Retrieved 29 August 2014. Here is a list of the legendary stars who won the Lifetime Achievement Award (South)

• 55th Filmfare Awards South Winners Archived 2 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine