Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Malayalam

The Filmfare Best Music Director Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Malayalam films.

Filmfare Award for Best Music Director - Malayalam
2023 winner: Kailas Menon for Vaashi
Awarded for	Best Music Director in Malayalam Films
Country	India
Presented by	Filmfare
First award	Raveendran, His Highness Abdullah (1990)
Currently held by	Kailas Menon, Vaashi (2023)
Website	filmfare.com

Superlatives

Superlative	Best Music Director - Malayalam
Most awards	Vidyasagar & M. Jayachandran	5 awards each[1]
Second Most awards	Raveendran	4 awards
Third Most awards	Bombay Ravi, Ilayaraja, Gopi Sunder & Kailas Menon	2 awards

Winners

Year	Music director	Film	Ref
2024	Sam C. S.	RDX: Robert Dony Xavier	[2]
2022	Kailas Menon	Vaashi
2021 2020	M. Jayachandran	Sufiyum Sujatayum
2018	Kailas Menon	Theevandi	[3]
2017	Rex Vijayan	Mayaanadhi	[4]
2016	Bijibal	Maheshinte Prathikaaram	[5]
2015	M. Jayachandran	Ennu Ninte Moideen	[6]
2014	Gopi Sundar	Bangalore Days	[7]
2013	M. Jayachandran	Celluloid	[8]
2012	Vidya Sagar	Diamond Necklace	[9]
2011	M. Jayachandran	Pranayam	[10]
2010	Gopi Sundar	Anwar	[11]
2009	Vidya Sagar	Neelathaamara
2008	Sharreth	Thirakkatha
2007	Ouseppachan	Ore Kadal
2006	Raveendran	Vadakkumnadhan
2005	Ilaiyaraaja	Achuvinte Amma
2004	M. Jayachandran	Perumazhakkalam
2003	Ilaiyaraaja	Manassinakkare	[12]
2002	Vidya Sagar	Meesa Madhavan	[1]
2001	Suresh Peters	Raavanaprabhu
2000	Mohan Sithara	Joker
1999	Vidya Sagar	Niram	[1]
1998		Summer in Bethlehem	[13]
1997	Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri	Kaliyattam	[14]
1996		Desadanam	[15]
1995	Raveendran	Mazhayethum Munpe	[16]
1994	Bombay Ravi	Parinayam	[17]
1993	S. P. Venkatesh	Paithrukam	[18]
1992	Bombay Ravi	Sargam	[19]
1991	Raveendran	Bharatham	[20]
1990		His Highness Abdullah	[21]