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.

Recipients

Year	Image	Honorees	Ref.
1983		S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
1984		Sowcar Janaki
1985		Padmini
1986		Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair
1988		Bhanumathi Ramakrishna
1989		Akkineni Nageswara Rao
1989		Ilaiyaraaja
1990		M. T. Vasudevan Nair
1992		L. V. Prasad
1993		Gemini Ganesan
1994		K. Balachander
		K. Viswanath
		B. Saroja Devi
		Madhu
		Hrishikesh Mukherjee
		Soumitra Chatterjee
1995		Nagesh
		Manorama
1996		Krishna
	–	Sarada
1997		S. Janaki
		Nedumudi Venu
1998		Allu Ramalingaiah
		Lakshmi
1999	–	Pandari Bai
	–	Sundaram
2000		D. Rama Naidu
		Sheela
2001		M. S. Viswanathan
		Dasari Narayana Rao
2002		K. Raghavendra Rao
		Vishnuvardhan
2003		K. J. Yesudas
	–	Vijayashanti
2004	–	K. R. Vijaya
		Ramoji Rao
2005		Thilakan
		Sukumari
2006		Krishnam Raju
		P. Susheela
2007		Sivakumar
		Jaya Prada
2008	–	Veturi
2009		Ambareesh
		K. P. A. C. Lalitha
2010		Chiranjeevi
	–	Jayasudha
2011		S. P. Muthuraman
		Seema
2012		Bapu
		Vani Jairam
2013		Balu Mahendra
		Jayabharathi
2014		IV Sasi
		Radhika
2015		Mohan Babu
2016	–	Vijaya Nirmala
2017	–	Kaikala Satyanarayana
2018		Hariharan
2020–21		Puneeth Rajkumar
		Allu Aravind