Asianet Television Awards

Asianet Television Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in Television achievements for Asianet TV serials
Country	India
Presented by	Asianet TV Channel
First award	2005

The Asianet Television Awards (ATA) is presented by Asianet TV Channel. It is a promotional platform of Asianet's TV shows. Since TV actors and actress' lack a strong society like Association of Malayalam Movie Artists, Asianet conducts functions to token their actors, directors, producers and production houses alternatively.

The awards ceremony was co-sponsored by Lux in the year 2005 which was titled as Asianet Kudumbam awards later Confident Group took up the sponsorship in the next 2 years. Then Ayu:Care, Nirapara, Doublehourse were the title sponsors. The function is normally held in Kozhikode, Palakkad, Kottayam, Angamaly and Thiruvananthapuram cities in Kerala. It was also held thrice in Al Saj Convention centre Trivandrum.

Serials with most awards Swapnam (2005), Sthree2 (2006), Ente Manasaputhri (2008), Autograph (2011) Kumkumapoovu (2012) Kumkumapoovu (2013), Parasparam (2014), Parasparam (2015), Parasparam (2016), Vanambadi (2017), Kasthooriman & Parasparam (2018), Vanambadi (2019), Swanthanam (2022), Chempaneerpoovu (2024)

Most awards

Winner(s)	Wins
Gayathri Arun Rekha Ratheesh Roopa Sree Sreejith V. J.	6
Vivek Gopan 'Praveen Kadakkavoor' Archana Suseelan Kottayam Rashid Pradeep Panicker Sajan Surya Sreejith V. J.	5
Devi S. Kottayam Rasheed	4

Awards for Serial

Best Serial

Year	Winner
2005	Swapnam
2006	Avicharitham
2008	Ente Manasaputhri
2011	Harichandanam
2012	Kumkumapoovu
2013	Sthreedhanam
2014	Parasparam
2015	Karuthamuthu
2016	Parasparam
2017	Vanambadi
2018	Kasthooriman
2019	Vanambadi
2022	Santhwanam
2024	Chempaneer Poovu
2026	Mazha Thorum Munpe

Best Second Serial

Year	Winner
2026	Chempaneer Poovu
	Patharamattu

Most Popular Serial

Year	Winner
2008	Swamy Ayyappan
2011	Devimahathyam
2012	Ammakkili
2013	Amma
2014	Sthreedhanam
2015	Chandanamazha
2016	Karuthamuthu
2017	Chandanamazha
2018	Bharya
2019	Neelakkuyil
2022	Kudumbavilakku
2024	Chempaneer Poovu
2026	Mazha Thorum Munpe

Long Running Serial

Year	Winner
2015	Amma
2026	Mounaragam

Awards for Actors/Actresses

Best Actress

The Asianet Television Award for Best Female Actor has been awarded since 2005.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2005	Praveena and Chippy Renjith	Swapnam and Sthree
2006	Vinaya Prasad	Sthree 2
2008	Sreekala Sasidharan	Ente Manasaputhri
2011	Rasna	Paarijatham
2012	Asha Sarath	Kumkumapoovu
2013	Shelly Kishore Divya Vishwanath	Kumkumapoovu Sthreedhanam
2014	Rekha Ratheesh	Parasparam
2015	Gayatri Arun
2016	Meghna Vincent	Chandanamazha
2017	Chippy Renjith	Vanambadi
2018	Gayatri Arun	Parasparam
2019	Suchithra Nair	Vanambadi
2022	Chippy Renjith Special jury - Anshitha and Avanthika Mohan	Santhwanam and Thoovalsparsham
2024	Aishwarya Ramsai	Mounaragam
2026	Sreelakshmi Special jury - Lakshmi Keerthana

Best Actor

The Asianet Television Award for Best Male Actor has been awarded since 2005.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2005	Suresh Krishna Anoop Menon	Swapnam Megham
2006	Siddique	Sthree 2
2008	Anand Kumar	Nomabarappoovu
2011	Arun Ghosh	Paarijatham
2012	Sajan Surya	Kumkumapoovu
2013
2014	Vivek Gopan	Parasparam
2015	Kishor Satya	Karuthamuthu
2016
2017	Sajan Surya	Bharya
2018
2019	Sreeram Ramachandran	Kasthooriman
2022	Rajeev Parameshwar	Santhwanam
2024	Arun Nair	Chempaneer Poovu
2026	Kishore Peethambaran Sreekanth Sasikumar (Special Jury)	Mazha Thorum Munpe and Pavithram

Best Popular Actress

The Asianet Television Award for Best Actress (Popular) has been awarded since 2011.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2011	Praveena	Devimahathyam
2012	Archana Suseelan	Ammakili
2013	Chitra Shenoy	Sthreedhanam
2014	Divya Padmini
2015	Meghna Vincent and Chitra Shenoy	Chandanamazha and Sthreedhanam
2016	Gayatri Arun	Parasparam
2017	Alina Padikkal	Bharya
2018	Darshana Das	Karuthamuthu
2019	Rebecca Santhosh	Kasthooriman
2022	Meera Vasudevan	Kudumbavilakku
2024	Gomathi Priya	Chempaneer Poovu
2026	Surabhi Santhosh	Pavithram

Best Popular Actor

The Asianet Television Award for Best Actor (Popular) has been awarded since 2008.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2008	Kaushik Babu	Swami Ayyappan
2011	Sarath Das	Harichandanam
2012	Shanavas Shanu	Kumkumapoovu
2013	Rajeev Roshan	Sthreedhanam
2014	Sarath Das	Amma
2015	Vivek Gopan	Parasparam
2016	Subramanian Gopalakrishnan	Chandanamazha
2017
2018	Sai Kiran	Vanambadi
2019
2022	K. K. Menon	Kudumbavilakku
2024	Arun Nair	Chempaneer Poovu
2026	Sreekanth Sasikumar	Pavithram

Best Character Actress

The Asianet Television Award for Best Actress (Character) has been awarded since 2005.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2005	Srividya	Avicharitham
2006	Vanitha Krishnachandran	Ammamanassu
2008	Sona Nair	Ente Manasaputhri
2011		Autograph
2012	Mallika Sukumaran	Harichandanam
2013	Sudha Chandran	Ardram
2014	Roopa Sree	Chandanamazha
2015	Roopa Sree Rekha Ratheesh	Chandanamazha Parasparam
2016	Rekha Ratheesh Thara Kalyan	Parasparam Karuthamuthu
2017	Rekha Ratheesh	Parasparam
2018	Praveena	Kasthooriman
2019	Seema G. Nair	Vanambadi
2022	Rekha Ratheesh	Sasneham
2024	Amrutha Nair	Geeta Govindam

Best Supporting Artist

Year	Winner (Male)	Winner (Female)	Serial(s)
2024	KPAC Shaji	Beena Antony	Chempaneer Poovu and Mounaragam
2026	VK Baiju	Anila Sreekumar	Pavithram
	Yadhu Krishnan	Meghna Vincent	Kattathe Kilikkodu and Santhwanam 2

Best Character Actor

The Asianet Television Award for Best Actor (Character) has been awarded since 2005.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2005	G. K. Pillai, Prem Prakash	Megham, Avicharitham
2006	Prakash Paul	Kadamattathu Kathanar
2008	Devan	Swami Ayyappan
2011	T. S. Raju	Kumkumapoovu
2012
2013	Vishnu Prakash	Sthreedhanam
2014	Pradeep Kottayam	Parasparam
2015	Santhosh Kurup	Karuthamuthu
2016
2017	Pradeep Kottayam	Parasparam
2018	Santhosh Kurup	Karuthamuthu
2019	M. R. Gopakumar	Neelakkuyil
2022	Balaji Sharma	Mounaragam
2024	K. P. A. C. Shaji	Chempaneer Poovu

Most Popular Character Artist

Year	Winner Female	Winner Male	Serial(s)
2026	Vaishnavi Saikumar	V K Baiju	Mazha Thorum Munpe and Pavithram

Best Star Pair

The Asianet Television Award for Best Star Pair has been awarded since 2011 later discontinued and reintroduced in 2016.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2011	Sarath Das, Sreekala Sasidharan	Amma
2016	Rajeev Roshan, Divya Padmini	Sthreedhanam
2017	Vivek Gopan, Gayathri Arun	Parasparam
2018	Balu Menon, Uma Nair	Vanambadi
2019	Anoop Krishnan, Dhanya Mary Varghese	Seetha Kalyanam
2022	Gopika Anil, Sajin	Santhwanam
2024	Sajan Surya, Binny Sebastian	Geeta Govindam
2026	Nikitha Rajesh, Rahul Suresh	Mazha Thorum Munpe
	Rebecca Santhosh, Arun Nair	Chempaneer Poovu

Most Popular Star Pair

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2026	Sreekanth Sasikumar, Surabhi Santhosh	Pavithram

Best New Face

The Asianet Television Award for Best New Face (Male/Female) has been awarded since 2011.

Year	Winner Female	Winner Male	Serial(s)
2011	Shaalin Zoya	Pradeep Chandran	Autograph and Kunjali Marakkar
2012	Shelly Kishore	—N/a	Kumkumapoovu
2013	Dr.Divya	Midhun	Padasaram and Sthreedhanam
2014	Gayathri Arun	Prathish Nanda	Parasparam and Chandanamazha
2015	Premi Viswanath	Richard NJ	Karuthamuthu
2016	Gowri Krishnan and Dilsha Prasannan	Srinish Aravind	Kanakanmani and Pranayam
2017	Aishwarya Midhun	Sai Kiran	Bharya and Vanambadi
2018	Haritha G Nair	Kiran Aravindakshan	Kasthooriman
2019	Snisha Chandran	Nithin Jake Joseph	Neelakkuyil
2022	Sreethu Krishnan and Aishwarya Ramsai	Naleef Gea	Ammayariyathe and Mounaragam
2024	Gomathi Priya	Sathyajith	Chempaneer Poovu and Gouri Shankaram
2026	Tessa Mariya	Kaushik Songster	Kattathe Kilikkoodu and Advocate Anjali

Best Performance in a Negative Role

The Asianet Television Award for Best Negative Role has been awarded since 2005.

Year	Winner (Female)	Winner (Male)	Serial(s)
2005	Chandra Lakshman	—N/a	Swantham
2006	Chandra Lakshman	—N/a
2008	Archana Suseelan	Jayan Cherthala	Ente Manasaputhri
2011	Aishwariyaa Bhaskaran	Kishore Peethambaran	Paarijatham and Harichandanam
2012	Ashwathy	Rajesh Hebbar	Kumkumapoovu and Ammakkili
2013	Ashwathy and Sonu Satheesh Kumar	Devendranath	Kumkumapoovu and Sthreedhanam
2014	Kanya Bharathi	Shobi Thilakan	Chandanamazha and Parasparam
2015	Shalu Kurian and Sonu Satheesh Kumar	Jishin Mohan	Chandanamazha, Sthreedhanam and Amma
2016	Archana Suseelan	Naveen Arakkal	Karuthamuthu and Pranayam
2017	Archana Suseelan	Naveen Arakkal	Karuthamuthu and Pranayam
2018	Suchithra Nair	Arun G Raghavan	Vanambadi and Bharya
2019	Roopa Sree	—N/a	Seethakalyanam
2022	Saranya Anand	Subhash	Kudumbavilakku and Ammayariyathe
2024	Soumya	Subhash	Chandrikayilaliyunna Chandrakantham and Janakiyudeyum Abhiyudeyum Veedu
2026	Sajna Noor	Fazil Rihan	Ishtam Mathram and Snehakkoottu
	Anjali Hari	—N/a	Chempaneer Poovu

Best Performance in a Comical Role

The Asianet Television Award for Best Comedian (Male/Female) has been awarded since 2011.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2011	Pradeep Prabhakar
2013	Kottayam Rasheed	Sthreedhanam
2014	Senthil Krishna
2015	Kottayam Rasheed
	Kanya Bharati	Chandanamazha
2016	Jayakumar Parameswaran Pillai	Karuthamuthu
	Kanya Bharati	Chandanamazha
2017	Senthil Krishna	Vellankalude Naadu
2018	Manoj Guinness	Badai Bungalow
	Harisree Martin	Bharya
2019	Pria Menon	Vanambadi
2022	Karthik Prasad	Mounaragam

Best Child Artist

The Asianet Television Award for Best Child Artist (Male/Female) has been awarded since 2005.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2005	Sanusha	Orma
2006		Amma Manassu
2008	Nikitha
2011	Jeevan and Sandra	Alavudeente Albudhavilakku
2012	Malavika	Amma
2013	Lekshmipriya	Devimahathyam
2014	Sidharth, Biswas Chaitanya, Niranjana, Sebin and Aditya	Balaganapathy
2015	Sidharth
2016	Akshara Kishor	Karuthamuthu
2017	Gauri Prakash	Vanambadi
2018	Jelina p
2019	Gauri Prakash, Jelina p
2024	Eithal Evana, Aarav Umesh	Malikappuram: Apathbandhavan Ayyappan

Life Time Achievement Award

The Asianet Television Award for Lifetime Achievement has been awarded since 2012 occasionally.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2012	G.K.Pillai	Kumkumapoovu
2014	Valsala Menon	Parasparam
2016	T. R. Omana and Sreelatha Namboothiri	Chandanamazha and Karuthamuthu
2017	K. P. A. C. Lalitha	Under the category Malayalathinte Amma
2018	Raghavan	Kasthooriman
2019	Innocent
2022	Sreelatha Namboothiri Murugan Merryland	Paadatha Painkili
2024	Sethu Lakshmi, Suresh Gopi, K. S. Chithra, Jagadish Mukesh	Mounaragam Jananayakan Star Singer Comedy stars various shows
2026	Roslin	Mazha Thorum Munpe

Youth Icon

The Asianet Television Award for Youth Icon has been awarded since 2016.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2016	Vivek Gopan	Parasparam
2017	Ronson Vincent	Bharya
2018	Sreeram Ramachandran	Kasthooriman
2022	Nikhil Nair	Ammayariyathe

Technical Awards

Best Director

The Asianet Television Award for Best Director has been awarded since 2005.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2005	K. K. Rajeev	Swapnam
2006		Amma Manassu
2008	Suresh Unnithan	Swami Ayyappan
2011	Sujith Sunder	Autograph
2012	Praveen Kadakkavoor	Kumkumapoovu
2013	Krishnamoorthy	Sthreedhanam
2014	Harrison	Balaganapathy
2015	Praveen Kadakkavoor	Karuthamuthu
2016
2017
2018	Harrison	Parasparam
2019	Adithyan	Vanambadi
2022	Aadithyan and Praveen Kadakkavoor	Santhwanam and Ammayariyathe
2024	Unni Pooruruthathi	Chandrikayilaliyunna Chandrakantham
2026	Sunil Kariattukara and Shyju Sukesh	Pavithram and Patharamattu

Popular Director

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2026	Binu Vellathooval	Mazha Thorum Munpe

Best Screenplay

The Asianet Television Award for Best Script has been awarded since 2005

Year	Winner	Serial(s)	Notes
2011	Anil Bass	Autograph
2012	Pradeep Panicker
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017	J. Pallassery
2018	Vinu Narayanan
2019	Pradeep Karuvanthara
2022	Pradeep Panicker
2024	Ganesh Olikkara	Etho Janma Kalpanayil
2026	Joycee	Mazha Thorum Munpe	Original Screenplay
	K Gireesh Kumar	Pavithram and Kattathe Kilikkkoodu	Adapted Screenplay

Best Videography

The Asianet Television Award for Best Cameraman has been awarded since 2005 later renamed as Videography

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2011	Pushpan
2012	Hemachandran
2013	Krishna Kodanadu
2014	Manoj Kumar
2015	Hemachandran
2016	Manoj Kumar
2017	Vimal	Vanambadi
2018	B. Kumar	Karuthamuthu
2019	Anurag Guna	Kasthooriman Pournamithinkal
2022	Manoj Kumar	Koodevide
2024	Vaidy	Janakiyudeyum Abhiyudeyum Veedu
2026	Priyadarshan PS	Pavithram
	Gessal Sebastian	Mazha Thorum Munpe

Best Editor

The Asianet Television Award for Best Editor has been awarded since 2011.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)	Ref.
2011	Joby Pannapara	Autograph
2012	Rajesh Sugunan
2013	Rohith Roshan
2014	Rajesh Thrissur
2015	Lal Kannan
2016	Rajesh Thrissur
2017		Bharya Parasparam
2018	Pradeep Bhagvath	Vanambadi
2019	Ajayan	Kasthooriman
2022	Jishnu S. Kuryathi
2024	Ajith Arinellore	Chempaneer Poovu
2026	Vishnu Pradeep	Pavithram Snehakkoottu

Best Audiography

The Asianet Television Award for Best Sound Recordist has been awarded since 2011 and later renamed as Audiography.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2011	Sreejith V. G.
2012
2013	Aneesh J.
2014	Sreejith V. G.
2015	Aneesh J.
2016	Sreejith V. G.
2017		Karuthamuthu
2018	Jeemol Payyappilly	Vezhambal
2019	Aneesh J.	Shabarimala Swami Ayyappan
2022	Sreejith V. G.	Ammayariyathe, Palunk
2024	Jithu S. Prem	Kaathodu Kaathoram
2026	Sreejith V. G.	Santhwanam 2

Best Dubbing Artist (Male)

The Asianet Television Award for Best Dubbing has been awarded since 2013.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)	Dubbed For
2013	Shobi Thilakan
2014	Sankar Lal	Parasparam	Vivek Gopan
2016	Sidharth	Chandanamazha	Subramanian
2017	Sankar Lal	Bharya, Parasparam	Ronson Vincent, Vivek Gopan
2018	Sidharth	Bharya, Kasthooriman	Arun G Raghavan, Kiran Aravindakshan
2019	Shobi Thilakan	Vanambadi	Sai Kiran
2022	Sankar Lal	Ammayariyathe, Santhwanam	Nikhil Nair, Sajin T. P.
2024	Sidharth	Chempaneer Poovu	Arun Nair
2026

Best Dubbing Artist (Female)

The Asianet Television Award for Best Dubbing has been awarded since 2012.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)	Dubbed For
2012	Bhagyalakshmi	Kumkumapoovu	Asha Sarath
2013	Devi S.	Sthreedhanam, Kumkumapoovu	Divya Padmini, Shelly Kishore
2014	Nithuna	Parasparam	Sneha Divakaran
2015	Ambili	Chandanamazha	Kanya Bharathi
2016	Devi S.	Parasparam	Gayatri Arun
2017		Vanambadi Parasparam Bharya Karuthamuthu	Chippy Renjith and Suchitra Nair Gayathri Arun Sonu Satheesh Kumar Renu Soundar
2018	Sera	Vezhambal
2019	Devi S.	Vanambadi Kasthooriman	Suchitra Nair Rebecca Santhosh
2022	Parvathy	Santhwanam Thoovalsparsham Ammayariyathe Padatha Painkili	Gopika Anil Sandra Babu Parvathy P Nair Maneesha Mahesh
2024	Athira Sukumaran	Janakiyudeyum Abhiyudeyum Veedu	Reneesha Rahiman
2026	Devayani	Kattathe Kilikkoodu	Tessa Mariya
	Neena Babu	Mounaragam	Aiswarya Ramsai

Awards for Music

Best Music Director

The Asianet Film Award for Best Music Director has been awarded since 2011 occasionally.

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2011	Ani Saras	Harichandanam
2013	Saanand George Grace	Kumkumapoovu
2012	Rony Raphel
2017	M. Jayachandran	Vanambadi
2024	Sreevalsan J. Menon and Saanand George	Etho Janma Kalpanayil

Best Lyricist

The Asianet Television Award for Best Music Director has been awarded since 2011 occasionally

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2011	Rajeev Alunkal	Harichandanam
2012	Prayar Geethanandan	Kumkumapoovu
2017	B.K.Harinarayan	Vanambadi

Best Playback Singer

The Asianet Television Award for Best Singer has been awarded since 2008 occasionally

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2008	Madhu Balakrishnan	Swami Ayyappan
2011	Madhu Balakrishnan	Devi Mahathmyam
	Gayatri Asokan	Harichandanam
2012	Gayatri Asokan	Agniputhri
2017	Shreya Jayadeep	Vanambadi and Vezhambal