7-569: The Filmfare Best Villain Award was given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Tamil ( Kollywood ) films. The award was introduced and first given at the 50th South Filmfare Awards in 2003, with Kalabhavan Mani being the first recipient. This category has been retired from 2005. Filmfare Awards South The Filmfare Awards South are annual awards that honour artistic and technical excellence in
14-589: Is given its own set of creative awards in annual ceremonies that have predominantly been held in Chennai and Hyderabad . Before 1976, the Awards ceremony was held in Mumbai along with Hindi awards. From 1976, Southern region film awards were separated from Hindi and moved to Chennai. The awards were first given in 1953 and the ceremony used to be held along with Bollywood Filmfare Awards . The awards were being held in
21-626: The Telugu cinema , Tamil cinema , Malayalam cinema and Kannada cinema . They are presented by Filmfare magazine of The Times Group . When it was introduced in 1954, the Filmfare Awards initially only recognized achievements in the Hindi cinema . In 1964 the awards were extended to Telugu , Tamil , Bengali and Marathi languages. Malayalam cinema was included in the awards in 1967 and Kannada cinema followed in 1970. Each industry
28-418: The 1980s and Best Music Direction in 1990s. Lifetime Achievement Award – South was first given in 1983. Award for Best Male debut and Female debut were given irregularly during the same period. Categories for Best Male Playback Singing and Best Female Playback Singing were introduced in 1997. In 2002, awards for Best Supporting actors were given for Telugu and Tamil films. Since 2005, these awards were extended to
35-720: The Kalaivanar Arangam, Chennai in the early days. Later the ceremony was shifted to the distinctive Music Academy. In 1953, initially only the Hindi film industry was recognized . In 1963 Awards extended to Best Picture in Telugu, Tamil, Bengali & Marathi, for the awards and from 1966 Malayalam films were added. Kannada films became a part of the event in 1969. In 1972 the awards were extended to Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director categories in all south Indian films. The categories for Special Awards were introduced in
42-548: The Malayalam and Kannada film industries. In the same year, additional categories such as Best Lyricist, Best Playback Singing were also introduced. Awards for Best Comedian were given from 2002 till 2006 and was discontinued later. The statuette, depicting a woman whose arms uprise in a dance number with her fingers touching, is commonly referred to as "Black Lady" (or "The Lady in Black"). Originally designed by N.G. Pansare under
49-406: The supervision of The Times of India ' s art director Walter Langhammer, it is generally made of bronze, its height is 46.5 cm and it weighs around five kg. To celebrate the 25th year of the awards, the statues were made in silver and to celebrate the 50th year the statues were made in gold . The Red Carpet is a segment that takes place before the beginning of the actual ceremony. This
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