1. Thoppil Anto 1982
2. M.S.Baburaj (Postumous Award) 1983
3. Kamukara Purushothaman 1983
4. Thrissur P.Radhakrishnan 1985
5. K.P.Udhayabhanu 1986
6. Santha P.Nair 1987
7. P.Gokulapalan 1990
8. M.K.Arjunan 1992
9. A.P.Gopalan 1993
10. Perumbavoor G.Ravindranath 1994
11. M.G.Radhakrishnan 1995
12. Kanhangad Ramachandran 1996
13. M.S.Nazeem 1997
14. Sara Gul Muhammed (Special Award) 1997
15. C.O.Anto (Total contribution in the sphere) 1998
16. Amachal Ravi 1998
17. Kalavoor Balan (Music Directon) 1998
18. A.K.Sukumaran 1999
19. P.K.Medini (Janakeeya Sangeetham) 1999
20. Kumarakam Rajappan 2000
21. Dharman Ezhome 2000
22. Kallara Gopan 2000
23. Jerry Amaldev 2001
24. K.P.Brahmanandan 2002
25. Vadakara Krishnadas 2003
26. Darsan Raman 2003
27. Vidhyadharan 2004
28. Ayirur Sadhasivan 2004
29. Zero Babu 2005
30. Zebella Sadanandan 2005
31. K.P.A.C.Chandrasekharan 2006
32. Poovachal Khadhar (Lyrics) 2006
33. V.T.Murali 2007
34. Harippad K.P.N.Pillai (Direction) 2007
35. Latha Raju 2008
36. Dr.Cheravalli Sasi (Lyrics) 2008
37. Murali Sithara 2009
38. Dr.B.Arunthathi 2009
39. Girijavarma 2010
40. Selma George 2011
41. Poochakkal Shahul (Lyrics) 2011
42. Alleppey Vivekanandan (Direction) 2012
43. Rajeev Alungal 2012
44. R.K.Damodaran 2013
45. Vaikkom Vijayalakshmi 2013
46. K.Veeramani (Kottayam Veeramani) 2014
47. M.D.Rajendran 2014
