The fast growing in popularity and rich in production values South Scope monthly film magazine exclusively for the South Indian film fraternity has instituted the maiden film awards for 2009 in its series of new attempts.

The nominations for the Kannada film awards for 2009 was released jointly by dimple star Diganth who is high in ranking after ‘Manasaare’ and ‘Pancharangi’ with the beautiful Sharmila Mandre, sweety Nidhi Subbaiah, charming Sanjan and buxom Jennifer Kotwal on Sunday afternoon at The Taj Residency in Bangalore.

This years slogan is ‘South is one’ says Srinivasamurthy of South Scope. Sun Network is the main sponsor and curtain raiser could be found in TV 9 Murthy mentioned. Another sponsor of South Scope film awards Rajendra Prasad said this year south film award will be never before. On October 3 the telecast of this is available in Sun Network.

THE NOMINATIONS FOR KANNADA FILM AWARDS ARE –

Best film – Maleyali Jotheyali, Manasaare, Savaari and Eddelu Manjunatha,
Best director – Guruprasad for Eddelu Manjunatha, Jacob Verghese for Savaari, Shivamani for Josh and Yogaraj Bhat for Manasaare,
Best actor – Ganesh, Jaggesh, Puneeth Rajakumar, Raghu Mukerjee,
Best actress – Radhika Pandit, Aindrita Ray, Priyamani and Rekha,
Best Supporting actor – Achyuth Kumar, Dilipraj, Rangayana Raghu, Tabala Naani,
Best Supproting actress – Thulasi Shivamani, Anjana Sukhani, Neetu, Yagna Shetty,
Best Comedian – Komal, Sadhu Kokila, Tennis Krishna, Umasri, Music director
Best Music director – V Harikrishna, Jaasie Gift, Joshua Sridhar, Arjun
Best Male Playback singer – Chetan, Karthik, Shaan, Tippu
Best Female Playback singer – Shamitha Malnad, Nandita, Sadhana Sargam, Shreya Ghoshal
Best Lyricist – Jayanth Kaikini, Kaviraj, Sudeep Attavar, Yogaraj Bhat
Best Cinematography – Sathya Hegde, Velraj, S Krishna, HC Venu

After South Scope Style Awards in October 2009, South Scope Calendar Girls 2010 and Tollywood Trophy-T20 this one maiden film awards for South Indian films of 2009 will conducted at HICC, Hyderabad, Asia’s biggest and most sophisticated convention center.

The glitter and glitz will be another hall mark of the maiden South Scope - South Film Awards on 19th September (Sunday) evening. All the top stars of South India converge at this function.