Tamil Nadu State Film Honorary Award

The Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Honorary Award given by the Tamil Nadu State Government as part of its annual Tamil Nadu State Film Awards for Tamil cinema personalities who contributed in developing the Tamil cinema in India.

Arignar Anna Award

 * 1990 - Manivannan, K. S. Gopalakrishnan and K. Balachander
 * 1991 - A. S. Prakasam, Vietnam Veedu Sundaram
 * 1992 - P. Bhanumathi, Krishnan
 * 1993 - Akkineni Nageswara Rao
 * 1994 - Harur Das
 * 1995 - T. Rajendar
 * 1996 - Liakath Ali Khan
 * 1997 - C. V. Sridhar
 * 1998 - S. A. Chandrasekhar, K. Swarnam
 * 1999 - Mahendran
 * 2000 - Anjali Devi
 * 2001 - Bharathiraja
 * 2002 - K. Jamuna Rani
 * 2006 - Rama Narayanan

Thiyagaraja Bhagavathar Award

 * 1999 - S. S. Rajendran
 * 2000 - M. N. Rajam
 * 2001 - Vyjayanthimala
 * 2002 - G. Sakunthala
 * 2004- P Leela
 * 2006 - T. M. Soundararajan

Kalaivanar Award

 * 1989 - K. A. Thangavelu
 * 1992 - Vennira Aadai Moorthy, Y. G. Mahendran
 * 1996 - Urvashi
 * 1999 - Kaka Radhakrishnan
 * 2000 - Padmini
 * 2001 - Raja Sulochana
 * 2002 - P. B. Sreenivas
 * 2006 - Vivek

Kannadasan Award

 * 1999 - Kavingnar Kamakodiyan
 * 2000 - S. Varalakshmi
 * 2001 - Vanisri
 * 2002 - M. S. Viswanathan
 * 2006 - Pa. Vijay

M.G.R. Award

 * 1989 - Sivaji Ganesan, Kamal Haasan
 * 1990 - Gemini Ganesan, Sowcar Janaki, M. N. Nambiar, Manorama
 * 1991 - R. S. Manohar, Pandari Bai
 * 1992 - Srividya, T. R. Ramanna
 * 1993 - B. Sarojadevi
 * 1994 - Vijayakanth
 * 1995 - Arvind Swamy, Satyaraj
 * 1998 - Prabhu, Napoleon
 * 1999 - Jamuna, Bhagyaraj
 * 2000 - Vijay
 * 2001 - B. S. Saroja
 * 2002 - E. V. Saroja
 * 2003 - Kanchana
 * 2004 - Rajasree
 * 2005 - Prashanth, Vikram Kennedy
 * 2006 - AjithKumar

Raja Sando Award

 * 1992 - Suhasini, A. Vincent
 * 1999 - S. Shankar
 * 2000 - Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
 * 2001 - K. Balaji
 * 2002 - M. Saravanan
 * 2006 - Thangar Bachan

Sivaji Ganesan Award

 * 1995 - Kamal Haasan
 * 1996 - Arvind Swamy
 * 1997 - Arjun Sarja
 * 1998 - Prabhudeva
 * 1999 - Simran Bagga
 * 2000 - Sukumari
 * 2001 - Ravichandran
 * 2002 - M. Saroja
 * 2003 - Vijay Joseph
 * 2004 - Bharath Srinivasan
 * 2005 - Vishal, Jiiva
 * 2006 - Siddharth Narayan
 * 2007 - Karthi
 * 2008 - Suriya
 * 2009 - Vikram
 * 2012 - Vijay Sethupathi<
 * 2013 - Gautham Karthik
 * 2014 - Siva Karthikeyan

Paavender Bharathidasan Award

 * 1992 - Jikki, S. Janaki
 * 2006 - Thamarai

Jayalalithaa Award

 * 1992 - P. Vasu, Manorama, M. N. Nambiar
 * 1993 - K. Balaji