Nandi Award for Best Actor

The Nandi Award for Best Actor was commissioned by the Nandi Awards committee in 1977. The winner is awarded a "Silver Nandi", "Shri Rajendra Prasad Gold Medal", cash award and a commendation certificate. Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Sobhan Babu, and Venkatesh are the actors to have won the best actor award five times, followed by Mahesh Babu with four wins.