Raghupathi Venkaiah Award


The Raghupathi Venkaiah Award is an award issued by the Indian state government of Andhra Pradesh to recognise lifetime achievements in Telugu cinema. The award was introduced in 1981 in honour of Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu, one of India's film pioneers regarded as the "father of Telugu cinema". The winner is presented a Golden Nandi, a gold medal, a citation and a cash prize of at the Nandi Awards functions.

Recipients

YearRecipientField of work
1980L. V. PrasadDirector, producer
1981P. PullayyaDirector, producer
1982B. A. Subba RaoDirector, producer
1983M. A. RahmanCinematographer
1984Kosaraju RaghavayyaLyricist, poet, actor
1985BhanumathiActor, producer, singer, music director, director, writer
1986BapuDirector
1986Mullapudi Venkata RamanaWriter
1987B. Nagi ReddyProducer
1988D. V. S. RajuProducer
1989Akkineni Nageswara RaoActor
1990Dasari Narayana RaoDirector, producer, actor
1991K. ViswanathDirector
1992S. Rajeswara RaoComposer
1993D. Madhusudhana RaoProducer
1994Anjali DeviActress
1995K. S. Prakash RaoActor, cinematographer, director, producer
1996Inturi Venkateswara RaoFilm journalist
1997V. Madhusudhana RaoDirector, producer, screenwriter
1998GummadiActor
1999Santha KumariActress, producer
2000Tadepalli Lakshmi Kanta RaoActor, producer
2001Allu RamalingaiahActor
2002P. SusheelaPlayback singer
2003V. B. Rajendra PrasadProducer
2004KrishnaveniActress, producer
2005M. S. ReddyDirector, producer, writer
2006D. RamanaiduProducer, actor
2007Tammareddy Krishna MurthyProducer
2008Vijaya NirmalaActress, director, producer
2009K. RaghavaProducer
2010M. BalaiahDirector, producer
2011Kaikala SatyanarayanaActor, director, producer
2012Kodi RamakrishnaDirector
2013VanisriActress
2014Krishnam RajuActor
2015EswarWriter, publicity designer
2016ChiranjeeviActor