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[1][2][3] 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.

Akkineni Nageswara Rao,N.

T. R. Jr. and Uday Kiran were the oldest and youngest actors to win the awards, at 68,21 and 21 respectively.