Asianet Television Awards

The Asianet Television Awards (ATA) is one of Asianet's newer ventures. 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.[1][2][3][4][5]

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

The awards ceremony was co-sponsored by Lux in the year 2005 which was titled as Asianet Kudumbam awards[6] 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 Thiruvanathapuram 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 (2018), Vanambadi (2019)

Most awards

Film	Wins	Nominations
Gayathri Arun	6	13
Vivek Gopan	5	13
Pradeep Panicker & Archana Suseelan	5	6
Rekha Ratheesh & Sreejith	5	7
Roopa Sree	5	8
Kottayam Rasheed & Praveen Kadakkavoor	4	6
Sajan Surya Devi S.	4	7

Awards for Serial

Best Serial

Year	Winner
2005	Swapnam
2006	Sthree 2
2008	Ente Manasaputhri
2011	Harichandanam
2012	Kumkumapoovu
2013	Sthreedhanam
2014	Parasparam
2015	Karuthamuthu
2016	Parasparam
2017	Vanambadi
2018	Kasthooriman
2019	Vanambadi

Best Popular Serial

Year	Winner
2011	Devimahathyam
2013	Amma
2014	Sthreedhanam
2015	Chandanamazha
2016	Chandanamazha
2017	Bharya
2018	Vanambadi
2019	Neelakkuyil

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 oru Santhwanam
2006	Vinaya Prasad	Sthree 2
2008	Sreekala Sasidharan	Ente Manasaputhri
2011	Rasna	Paarijatham
2012	Asha Sarath	Kumkumapoovu
2013	Shelly Kishore and Divya Vishwanath	Kumkumapoovu and Sthreedhanam
2014	Rekha Ratheesh	Parasparam
2015	Gayathri Arun	Parasparam
2016	Meghna Vincent	Chandanamazha
2017	Chippy Renjith	Vanambadi
2018	Gayathri Arun	Parasparam
2019	Suchithra Nair	Vanambadi

Best Actor

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

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2005	Suresh Krishna and Anoop Menon	Swapnam and Megham
2006	Siddhique	Sthree 2
2008	Anand Kumar	Nomabarappoovu
2011	Arun Ghosh	Paarijatham
2012	Sajan Surya	Kumkumapoovu
2013	Sajan Surya	Kumkumapoovu
2014	Vivek Gopan	Parasparam
2015	Kishor Satya	Karuthamuthu
2016	Kishor Satya	Karuthamuthu
2017	Sajan Surya	Bharya
2018	Sajan Surya	Bharya
2019	Sreeram Ramachandran	Kasthooriman

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	Sthreedhanam
2015	Meghna Vincent and Chitra Shenoy	Chandanamazha and Sthreedhanam
2016	Gayathri Arun	Parasparam
2017	Alina Padikkal	Bharya
2018	Darshana Das	Karuthamuthu
2019	Rebecca Santhosh	Kasthooriman

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	Subramanian Gopalakrishnan	Chandanamazha
2018	Sai Kiran	Vanambadi
2019	Sai Kiran	Vanambadi

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	Sona Nair	Devimahathyam
2012	Mallika Sukumaran	Harichandanam
2013	Sudha Chandran	Ardram
2014	Roopa Sree	Chandanamazha
2015	Roopa Sree and Rekha Ratheesh	Chandanamazha & Parasparam
2016	Rekha Ratheesh and Thara Kalyan	Parasparam & Karuthamuthu
2017	Rekha Ratheesh	Parasparam
2018	Praveena	Kasthooriman
2019	Seema G. Nair	Vanambadi

Best Character Actor

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

Year	Winner	Serial(s)
2005	G K Pillai and Prem Prakash	Megham and Avicharitham
2006	Prakash Paul	Kadamattathu Kathanar
2008	Devan	Swami Ayyappan
2011	T.S.Raju	Kumkumapoovu
2012	T.S.Raju	Kumkumapoovu
2013	Vishnu Prakash	Sthreedhanam
2014	Pradeep Kottayam	Parasparam
2015	Santhosh Kurup	Karuthamuthu
2016	Santhosh Kurup	Karuthamuthu
2017	Pradeep Kottayam	Parasparam
2018	Santhosh Kurup	Karuthamuthu
2019	M. R. Gopakumar	Neelakkuyil

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

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

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	Aishwarya Bhaskar	Kishor	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 and Sthreedhanam
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

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	Sthreedhanam
2015	Kottayam Rasheed and Kanya Bharati	Sthreedhanam and Chandanamazha
2016	Jayakumar Parameswaran Pillai and Kanya Bharati	Karuthamuthu and Chandanamazha
2017	Senthil Krishna	Vellankalude Naadu
2018	Manoj Guinness and Harisree Martin	Badai Bungalow and Bharya
2019	Pria Menon	Vanambadi

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	Sanusha	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	Balaganapathy
2016	Akshara Kishor	Karuthamuthu
2017	Gauri Prakash	Vanambadi
2018	Sona Jelin	Vanambadi
2019	Gauri Prakash, Sona and Jelin	Vanambadi and Swami 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

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

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	K. K. Rajeev	Amma Manassu
2008	Suresh Unnithan	Swami Ayyappan
2011	Sujit Sunder	Autograph
2012	Praveen Kadakkavoor	Kumkumapoovu
2013	Krishnamoorthy	Sthreedhanam
2014	Harrison	Balaganapathy
2015	Praveen Kadakkavoor	Karuthamuthu
2016	Praveen Kadakkavoor	Karuthamuthu
2017	Praveen Kadakkavoor	Karuthamuthu
2018	Harrison	Parasparam
2019	Adithyan	Vanambadi

Best Screenplay

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

Year	Winner	Notes(s)
2011	Anil Bass
2012	Pradeep Panicker
2013	Pradeep Panicker
2014	Pradeep Panicker
2015	Pradeep Panicker	Girish Gramika and Cheruvanniyoor Jayaprakash won the Award for Best Dialogue (Sub Category)
2016	Pradeep Panicker
2017	J. Pallassery
2018	Vinu Narayanan
2019	Pradeep Karuvanthara

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
2018	B.Kumar
2019	Anurag Guna

Best Editor

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

Year	Winner	Notes(s)
2011	Joby Pannabra
2012	Rajesh Sugunan
2013	Rohith Roshan
2014	Rajesh Thrissur
2015	Lal Kannan
2016	Rajesh Thrissur
2017	Rajesh Thrissur
2018	Pradeep Bhagvath
2019	Ajayan

Best Audiography

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

Year	Winner	Notes(s)
2011	Sreejith
2012	Sreejith
2013	Aneesh J
2014	Sreejith
2015	Aneesh J
2016	Sreejith
2017	Sreejith
2018	Jeemol
2019	Aneesh J

Best Dubbing Artist

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

Year	Winner	Notes(s)
2012	Bhagyalakshmi
2013	Shobi Thilakan and Devi S.
2014	Sankar Lal and Nithuna
2015	Ambili
2016	Sidharth and Devi S.
2017	Sankar Lal and Devi S.
2018	Sidharth and Sera
2019	Shobi Thilakan and Devi S.

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
2012	Rony Raphel	Kumkumapoovu
2017	M. Jayachandran	Vanambadi

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 and Gayatri Asokan	Devimahathyam and Harichandanam
2012	Gayatri Asokan	Agniputhri
2017	Shreya Jayadeep	Vanambadi and Vezhambal

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