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.

Superlatives

 * Chiranjeevi with seven wins, has most awards than any other actor. Mahesh Babu has five wins, followed by Sobhan Babu, Venkatesh and Allu Arjun with four wins. Five actors have won the award thrice in chronological order they are Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Kamal Haasan, Krishnam Raju, N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan . Rajasekhar has two wins. Akkineni Nageshwara Rao and Uday Kiran were the oldest and youngest actors to win the awards, at 68 and 21, respectively.
 * Allu Arjun, and Venkatesh are the two 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 (1974–1976) and Chiranjeevi (1992–1993).
 * Chiranjeevi has the most nominations with 21, followed by Venkatesh with 18 and Nagarjuna with 16.

Multiple winners

 * 7 wins: Chiranjeevi
 * 5 wins: Mahesh Babu
 * 4 wins: Sobhan Babu, Venkatesh, Allu Arjun
 * 3 wins: N. T. R. Jr., Ram Charan, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Kamal Haasan, Krishnam Raju
 * 2 wins: Rajasekhar