Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu

The Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu is presented by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Telugu films. The awards were extended to "Best Director" in 1972.[1]

Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu
Awarded forBest Director in Telugu films
CountryIndia
Presented byFilmfare
First awardedKadiri Venkata Reddy,
Sri Krishna Satya(1972)
Currently held byNag Ashwin,
Mahanati (2018)
WebsiteFilmfare Awards

Superlatives
Superlative Best Director - Telugu
Most awards K. Viswanath 8
Most Nominations K. Viswanath 16
Most Nominations without a win Ram Gopal Varma 5
  • K. Viswanath has the record of winning most awards eight and winning the award twice in a row, on three separate occasions (1974–1975, 1982-1983 and 1986–1987). Both K. Raghavendra Rao and S. S. Rajamouli have received the award for four times which is the second most.
  • Nandini Reddy and Sripriya were the only two female directors to have been nominated for their films Ala Modalaindi in 2011 and Drushyam in 2014 respectively.

Winners
YearDirectorFilmRef
2018Nag AshwinMahanati[2]
2017S. S. RajamouliBaahubali: The Conclusion[3]
2016Vamshi PaidipallyOopiri[4]
2015S. S. RajamouliBaahubali: The Beginning[5]
2014Vikram KumarManam[6]
2013Trivikram SrinivasAtharintiki Daaredi[7]
2012S. S. RajamouliEega[8]
2011Sreenu VaitlaDookudu[9]
2010Radhakrishna JagarlamudiVedam[10]
2009S. S. RajamouliMagadheera[11]
2008Radhakrishna JagarlamudiGamyam[12]
2007Sekhar KammulaHappy Days[13]
2006Puri JagannadhPokiri[14]
2005Trivikram SrinivasAthadu[15]
2004SukumarArya[16]
2003GunasekharOkkadu[17]
2002Krishna VamsiKhadgam[18]
2001TejaNuvvu Nenu[19]
2000K. Vijaya BhaskarNuvve Kavali[20]
1999B. GopalSamarasimha Reddy[21]
1998Krishna VamsiAnthapuram[22]
1997K. Raghavendra RaoAnnamayya[23]
1996Krishna VamsiNinne Pelladata[24]
1995K. ViswanathSubha Sankalpam[25]
1994S. V. Krishna ReddyShubha Lagnam[26]
1993K. Raghavendra RaoAllari Priyudu[27]
1992K. ViswanathAapathbandhavudu[28]
1991Kranthi KumarSeetharamaiah Gari Manavaralu[29][30]
1990K. Raghavendra RaoJagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari[31]
1989Mani RatnamGeethanjali[32]
1988M. V. RaghuKallu[33][34]
1987K. ViswanathShrutilayalu[35]
1986K. ViswanathSwathi Muthyam[36][37]
1985Singeetham Srinivasa RaoMayuri[38]
1984Jandhyala Subramanya SastrySrivariki Premalekha[39]
1983K. ViswanathSaagara Sangamam[40]
1982K. ViswanathSubhalekha[41]
1981Dasari Narayana RaoPremabhishekam[42]
1980BapuVamsa Vruksham[43]
1979Dasari Narayana RaoGorintaku[44]
1978K. BalachanderMaro Charitra[45]
1977K. Raghavendra RaoPrema Lekhalu[46]
1976BapuSeetha Kalyanam[47]
1975K. ViswanathJeevana Jyothi[48]
1974K. ViswanathO Seeta Katha[49]
1973T. Rama RaoJeevana Tharangaalu[50]
1972Kadiri Venkata ReddySri Krishna Satya[51]

Nominations

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

Notes
  1. Film world, p 43
  2. "Winners of the 66th Filmfare Awards (South) 2019". Filmfare. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  3. https://www.filmfare.com/features/winners-of-the-65th-jio-filmfare-awards-south-2018_-28887.html
  4. "Winners of the 64th Jio Filmfare Awards (South)". Filmfare. 17 June 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  5. https://www.filmfare.com/news/winners-of-the-63rd-britannia-filmfare-awards-south-13996.html
  6. https://www.filmfare.com/news/winners-of-62nd-britannia-filmfare-awards-south-9643.html
  7. https://www.filmfare.com/features/winners-of-61st-idea-filmfare-awards-south-6712.html
  8. https://www.filmfare.com/news/list-of-winners-at-the-60th-idea-filmfare-awards-south-3745.html
  9. https://www.filmfare.com/news/59th-idea-filmfare-awards-south-winners-list-809.html
  10. "58th Idea Filmfare Awards South 2011 Winners - 8PM News — Telugu News Online Portal". Archived from the original on 10 January 2014.
  11. "Filmfare Awards winners". The Times Of India. 9 August 2010.
  12. "A Sparkling Triumph — The 56th Filmfare South Awards". bollyspice.com. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011.
  13. "Happy Days at the 55th Tiger Balm Filmfare South Awards". bollyspice.com. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011.
  14. "54th Fair One Filmfare Awards 2006 - Telugu cinema function".
  15. "Filmfare South awards 2006 - Telugu cinema".
  16. "Filmfare awards for South India — Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam & Kannada — Telugu Cinema".
  17. "Pithamagan sweeps FilmFare Awards".
  18. https://web.archive.org/web/20110721152719/http://portal.bsnl.in/intranetnews.asp?url=%2Fbsnl%2Fasp%2Fcontent%20mgmt%2Fhtml%20content%2Fentertainment%2Fentertainment14489.html
  19. "Nuvvu Nenu wins 4 Filmfare awards". The Times Of India. 6 April 2002.
  20. "Vishnuvardhan, Sudharani win Filmfare awards". The Times Of India.
  21. "Rahman bags 12th Filmfare award".
  22. https://archive.org/download/46thFilmfareAwardsSouthWinners/46th%20Filmfare%20Awards%20south%20winners.jpg
  23. https://archive.today/20170205072547/https://archive.org/details/45thFilmfareSouthBestDirectorAwards
  24. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 October 1999. Retrieved 16 December 2019.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  25. "Filmfare Awards". Archived from the original on 4 February 1997.
  26. https://archive.today/20170205063750/https://archive.org/details/42ndAnnualFilmfaresouthawardsTeluguMalayalamwinners
  27. https://archive.org/download/FilmfareBestTeluguDirectorAndMusicDirector/Filmfare%20Best%20Telugu%20Director%20and%20Music%20Director.jpg
  28. https://archive.org/download/40thFilmfareSouthBestActorActress/40th%20Filmfare%20South%20Best%20Actor%20Actress.jpg
  29. https://archive.today/20170207133748/https://archive.org/details/39thAnnualFilmfareBestActorDirectorTeluguWinners
  30. Sainik Samachar. 1993.
  31. https://archive.org/download/FilmfareBestTeluguDirectorAndMusicDirector/Filmfare%20Best%20Telugu%20Director%20and%20Music%20Director.jpg
  32. "Film majalah". 1990.
  33. "Frame by frame". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 8 August 2009.
  34. "The saga of a lensman". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 9 June 2003.
  35. https://archive.today/20170205141932/https://archive.org/details/35thAnnualFilmfareAwardsSouthWinners
  36. https://archive.today/20170528093416/https://archive.org/details/34thAnnualFilmfareAwardsSouthWinners
  37. "Collections". 1991.
  38. "Collections". 1991.
  39. "Collections". 1991.
  40. "Collections". 1991.
  41. Reed, Sir Stanley (1984). "The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who".
  42. "The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who". 1983.
  43. (Firm), Times of India (1982). "The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who".
  44. "Collections". 1991.
  45. "Collections". 1991.
  46. "Collections". 1991.
  47. Reed, Sir Stanley (1984). "The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who".
  48. "The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who". 1978.
  49. Reed, Sir Stanley (1976). "The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who".
  50. Reed, Sir Stanley (1974). "The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who".
  51. "The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who". 1973.

References
  • Ramachandran, T.M. (1973). Film world. 9.
  • Collections. Update Video Publication. 1991.
  • The Times of India directory and year book including who's who. Times of India Press. 1984.
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