Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor
Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor is a film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards. The award honours Kannada-language films.
Recipients
The first recipient was Rajkumar who was honored in 1967 for his performance in Bangaarada Hoovu. As of 2019 he is the most honored actor with nine awards. Vishnuvardhan was honored in seven occasions. Two actors Anant Nag, Shiva Rajkumar have been honored four times, while Lokesh honored thrice and three actors Ramesh Aravind, Sudeepa and Puneeth Rajkumar have won twice. The award was tied in the year of 1998–99 between Vishnuvardhan and Ramesh Aravind. Shiva Rajkumar, Raghavendra Rajkumar and Puneeth Rajkumar are the only siblings to have bagged this award. The most recent recipient is Rakshit Shetty who is honored in 2021 for his performance in the film 777 Charlie.The following is a complete list of award winners and the name of the films for which they won.