TheFilmfare Lifetime Achievement Award is given by theFilmfare magazine as part of its annualFilmfare Awards South ceremony.

Year	Image	Honorees	Nature of work	Age when awarded	Ref.
1993		L. V. Prasad	Director / Producer	86	[1][2]
1994		Gemini Ganesan	Actor	73	[3]
1995		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
1996		Nagesh	Actor	62	[5]
		Manorama	Actress	59
1997		Krishna	Actor	54	[6]
	–	Sarada	Actress	52
1998		S. Janaki	Singer	60	[7]
		Nedumudi Venu	Actor	50
1999		Lakshmi	Actress	51	[8]
		Allu Ramalingaiah	Actor	76
2000		Pandari Bai	Actress	71	[9]
	–	Sundaram	Choreographer	64
2001		D. Rama Naidu †	Producer	64
		Sheela	Actress	56
2002		M. S. Viswanathan	Music Director	73	[10]
		Dasari Narayana Rao	Director	59
2003		Vishnuvardhan	Actor	52	[11]
		K. Raghavendra Rao	Director	61
2004		Vijayashanti	Actress	37	[12]
		K. J. Yesudas	Singer	64
2005	–	K. R. Vijaya	Actress	56	[13]
		Ramoji Rao	Producer	68
2006		Thilakan	Actor	71
		Sukumari	Actress	65
2007		Krishnam Raju	Actor	67	[14][15]
		P. Susheela	Singer	72
2008		Sivakumar	Actor	66	[citation needed]
		Jaya Prada	Actress	46
2009		Veturi	Lyricist	73	[citation needed]
2010		Ambareesh	Actor	58	[16]
		K. P. A. C. Lalitha	Actress	63
2011		Chiranjeevi	Actor	55	[17][18][19]
		Jayasudha	Actress	52
2012		S. P. Muthuraman	Director	77	[20]
		Seema	Actress	55
2013		Bapu	Director	79	[21]
		Vani Jairam	Singer	67
2014		Balu Mahendra(posthumous)	Cinematographer	74
		Jayabharathi	Actress	60
2015		IV Sasi	Director	67	[22]
		Radhika	Actress	52
2016		Mohan Babu	Actor	64	[23]
2017		Vijaya Nirmala	Actress	71
2018		Kaikala Satyanarayana	Actor	82	[24]
2019		Hariharan	Director	64
2022		Puneeth Rajkumar(posthumous)	Actor	46
		Allu Aravind	Producer	73
2023	No award
2024		Srinath	Actor	80

• Filmfare Editorial (10 July 2014)."Lifetime Achievement Award (South) winners down the years..."Filmfare. Retrieved29 August 2014.Here is a list of the legendary stars who won the Lifetime Achievement Award (South)

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