The 56th Filmfare Awards South ceremony honored its selection of the best South Indian films of 2008 and was held on Friday, 31 July 2009, in Hyderabad, India.

Nominations

The nominees for the 56th Filmfare Awards were announced live on Monday, 16 June 2009, at 12:00 a.m. IST (7:30 UTC) by Filmfare chief editors in Mumbai. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony scheduled to take place on 31 July 2009, in Hyderabad. The Filmfare Best Film Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films. The award was first given in 1954. Here is a list of the award winners and the nominees of the respective years. Each individual entry shows the title followed by the production company, and the producer.

Multiple nominations and awards

The following films received multiple nominations.

Kannada

Malayalam

Tamil

Telugu

Awardees

Kannada cinema

Malayalam

Tamil

Telugu

Other awards

(No nominees for these awards)