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 with 21 nominations and the most awarded with seven wins.
Winners and nominees
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
| Year | Actor | Role | Film | |
| 2020 / 21 | Allu Arjun | Pushpa Raj | Pushpa: The Rise | |
| 2020 / 21 | Mahesh Babu | Ajay Krishna | Sarileru Neekevvaru | |
| 2020 / 21 | Naga Chaitanya | Revanth | Love Story | |
| 2020 / 21 | Nani | Shyam Singha Roy / Vasudev Ghanta | Shyam Singha Roy | |
| 2020 / 21 | Naveen Polishetty | Srikanth | Jathi Ratnalu | |
| 2020 / 21 | Rakshit Atluri | Mohan Rao | Palasa 1978 | |
| 2020 / 21 | Panja Vaisshnav Tej | Aasirvadham | Uppena | |
| 2022 | N. T. Rama Rao Jr. | Komaram Bheem | RRR | |
| 2022 | Ram Charan | Alluri Sitarama Raju | RRR | |
| 2022 | Adivi Sesh | Sandeep Unnikrishnan | Major | |
| 2022 | Dulquer Salmaan | Ram | Sita Ramam | |
| 2022 | Chiranjeevi | Brahma Teja | Godfather | |
| 2022 | Pawan Kalyan | Sarhad Bheemla Nayak | Bheemla Nayak | |
| 2022 | Siddhu Jonnalagadda | Bala Gangadhar Tilak | DJ Tillu | |
| 2023 | Nani | Dharani | Dasara | |
| 2023 | Anand Devarakonda | Anand | Baby | |
| 2023 | Nandamuri Balakrishna | Nelakonda Bhagavanth Kesari | Bhagavanth Kesari | |
| 2023 | Chiranjeevi | Waltair Veerayya | Waltair Veerayya | |
| 2023 | Dhanush | Bala Gangadhar Tilak | Sir | |
| 2023 | Nani | Viraj | Hi Nanna | |
| 2023 | Naveen Polishetty | Siddhu Polishetty | Miss Shetty Mr Polishetty | |
| 2023 | Prakash Raj | Raghava Rao | Rangamarthanda |
Superlatives
- Chiranjeevi, with seven wins, has the most than any other actor in Telugu cinema. Mahesh Babu, with five wins, has the second most in Telugu cinema, followed by Sobhan Babu, Venkatesh, and Allu Arjun each with four wins. Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Kamal Haasan, Krishnam Raju, N. T. R. Jr., and Ram Charan each have three wins. Rajasekhar has two wins.
- Allu Arjun, Nani (actor), 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 Filmfare Awards for Best Actor – Telugu and Best Supporting Actor -Telugu.
- 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 for the same film.
- 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 and Chiranjeevi.
- Chiranjeevi has the most nominations with 21, followed by Venkatesh with 18, Nagarjuna with 16 and Mahesh Babu with 12.