Awards and Nominations of Samantha

Samantha Ruth Prabhu is an Indian actress who primarily works in the South Indian film industry, where she has established herself as a leading actress. She is recipient several awards, including four Filmfare Awards, a Filmfare OTT Award, two Nandi Awards, a Vijay Award, six South Indian International Movie Awards, and three CineMAA Awards. Samantha made her acting debut in 2010 with a leading role in the Telugu film Ye Maaya Chesave, for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South and a Nandi Special Jury Award, in addition to her first Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu nomination. Samantha subsequently earned wide recognition with her role as a NIFT student in the romantic drama, Baana Kaathadi (2010). She then went on to feature in big-budget Telugu-language action comedy film, Dookudu (2012) opposite Mahesh Babu. The film's success made Samantha one of the most sought heroines in Telugu cinema. For her performance as the love interest of a police officer in the film, she received her second nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu. She also subsequently made guest appearances in the psychological thriller film, Nadunisi Naaygal (2011) and Ekk Deewana Tha (2012). Samantha next featured in S. S. Rajamouli's live-action Telugu-Tamil bilingual project Eega (2012), portraying a micro artist who runs an NGO and takes revenge for the murder of her lover. The film became a major commercial success earning her the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu. She also won Best Actress awards at other ceremonies, including CineMAA Awards, Santosham Film Awards and SIIMA Awards. Samantha played the leading female role of Nithya in the trilingual romantic drama film Neethane En Ponvasantham (2012), for which she won Best Actress at the Vijay Awards and the Ananda Vikatan Awards, in addition to a nomination in the same category at the SIIMA Awards. In 2013, Samantha starred in the comedy-drama film, Attarintiki Daredi, which emerged as the highest-grossing Telugu film upon release. Her performance saw her win Best Actress awards at the SIIMA Awards and the Santosham Film Awards. Portraying Anasuya Ramalingam, a naive girl trying to escape from the controlling behavior of her mother, her performance in the romantic comedy, A Aa, fetched her second Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu, in addition to Best Actress awards at the IIFA Utsavam Awards, the Santosham Film Awards, and a nomination in the same category at the SIIMA Awards.In 2021, for her performance in the Amazon Prime Video web series, The Family Man (Season 2), Samantha won widespread critical acclaim and accolades, including the Filmfare OTT Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series and the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Award for Best Performance (Female) in a Web Series.

Filmfare South Awards

Filmfare Awards South is the South Indian segment of the annual Filmfare Awards, presented by the Filmfare magazine of The Times Group to honor both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the South Indian film industry encompassing four languages, namely, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada.Samantha has won four awards from thirteen nominations which includes a rare double award in two languages in the same year, and only Revathi and Poornima have previously accomplished.

Filmfare OTT Recognition Awards

The Filmfare OTT Awards are a set of awards that honor artistic and technical excellence in the Hindi-language original programming over-the-top space of India. This is her second nomination in the OTT arena in the same year, for which she won her first Filmfare award in the OTT arena

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards were given for excellence in Tamil cinema in India. They were given annually to honour the best talents and provide encouragement and incentive to the South Indian film industry by the Government of Tamil Nadu. The awards were first given in 1967 and discontinued after 1970. The awards were given again in 1977 and continued till 1982. Since 1988, the awards were regularly given until it became defunct in 2008.[29] The awards were reinstated in July 2017 after the government announced the wins for 2009–2014.

Nandi Awards

Presented annually by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, the Nandi Awards are the awards that recognize the excellence in Telugu cinema, Telugu theatre, and Telugu television, and Lifetime achievements in Indian cinema. The Nandi awards for 2012 and 2013 could not be finalized because of the extremely volatile situation in the undivided state in light of the political uncertainty caused by the Telangana statehood movement. Therefore, the recipients were awarded in 2017.[26]

Samantha has won two awards.

SIIMA Awards

The SIIMA awards for the years 2019 and 2020 were awarded in 2021, as the award ceremonies were canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic in India.[38]

Samantha has won six awards.