State film awards for Thanmatra, Mohanlal, Navya
Blessy's Thanmathra excelled in this years Kerala state film awards winning the major awards including Best Film and best director. Mohanlal won the best actor award for his role in the film while Blessy won the award for direction and screenplay. Navya Nair is the best actress for her performance in 'Saira' and `Kanna Madanguka.' Bhavana made it to the second best actress (Film: Daivanamathil). Salim Kumar is the second best actor and Lal Jose second best director(Achan Urangatha Veedu).Achuvinte Amma was declared the best popular film and Roshan Andrews won the best debut director(Udayannanu tharam). Ananthabhadram bagged several awards including best cinematographer(Santhosh Shivan), best music director(M G Radhakrishnan),best editing (Sreekar Prasad), art direction (Sunil Babu) and make-up (Pattanam Rasheed). M Jayachandran best playback singer and K S Chithra the best female playback singer; both won for their songs in 'Nottam'
