Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu

The Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Telugu films. The awards were extended to "Best Actor" in 1972. The year indicates the year of release of the film. Chiranjeevi is the most nominated actor, with 21 nominations and the most awarded, with seven wins.

Winners and nominees

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Superlatives

• Chiranjeevi, with seven wins, has the most than any other actor in Telugu cinema. Mahesh Babu and Allu Arjun, with five wins each, have the second most awards, followed by Sobhan Babu and Venkatesh each with four wins. Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Kamal Haasan, Krishnam Raju, N. T. Rama Rao Jr., and Ram Charan have three wins each. Rajasekhar has two wins.
• Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Uday Kiran were the oldest and youngest actors to win the awards, at 68 and 21 respectively.
• Allu Arjun, Nani and Venkatesh are the three actors to win both Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor – South.
• Allu Arjun has won both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awards.
• Allu Arjun is the only actor to have won Filmfare Awards South in three different acting categories: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor – Critics.
• Allu Arjun became the first and only actor to win the Filmfare Award for Best Actor and National Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the same film, that is, '.
• Sobhan Babu was the most victorious actor with four wins in the 70s. Kamal Haasan ruled the 80s with three wins. In the 90s, Chiranjeevi outperformed every other actors with three wins. Chiranjeevi and Mahesh Babu were the two successful actors with two wins each in the 2000s. Mahesh Babu continued to be the most successful actor in the 2010s with three wins.
• Two actors have won the awards in consecutive years; in chronological order, they are Sobhan Babu (1974–1976) and Chiranjeevi (1992–1993).
• Chiranjeevi has the most nominations with 21, followed by Venkatesh with 18, Nagarjuna with 16 and Mahesh Babu with 12.

• 7 wins: Chiranjeevi
• 5 wins: Mahesh Babu, Allu Arjun
• 4 wins: Sobhan Babu, Venkatesh
• 3 wins: Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Krishnam Raju, Kamal Haasan, N. T. R. Jr., Ram Charan
• 2 wins: Rajasekhar