# 5th Vijay Awards

The 5th Vijay Awards ceremony honoring the winners and nominees of the best of Tamil film industry in 2010 was held on 25 June 2011 in Chennai.

## Award categories

Winners from 32 various categories like Best Film, Best Actor Male/Female, Best Supporting Actor Male/Female, Best Comedian, Best Villain, Best Playback Singer Male/Female, Best Debut Actor Male/Female, Best Choreographer, Best Film Editor, Best Lyricist, Best Art Director, Best Dress Designer, Best Dialogue Writer are few of the awards that would be selected by the Jury members.

## Jury members

The Jury members for the Fifth Annual Vijay Awards are the Popular Writer/Director/Producer Yugi Sethu, Actress Radhika Sarathkumar, Karthik, Director A. R. Murugadoss and Cinematographer Ravi. K. Chandran.

## Award winners and nominees

Winners are highlighted and nominees are listed in the list below.

### Jury awards

| Best Film | Best Director |
| Angadi Theru - Ayngaran International Mynaa - Shalom Studios Thenmerku Paruvakaatru - Jotham Media Works Nandalala - Ayngaran International Madrasapattinam - AGS Entertainment | Vasanthabalan - Angadi Theru A. L. Vijay - Madrasapattinam Gautham Vasudev Menon - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa Prabu Solomon - Mynaa Seenu Ramasamy - Thenmerku Paruvakaatru |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Vikram - Raavanan Arya - Madrasapattinam Karthi - Naan Mahaan Alla Silambarasan - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa Suriya - Ratha Charithram | Anjali - Angadi Theru Reema Sen - Aayirathil Oruvan Aishwarya Rai - Ravanan Amala Paul - Mynaa Trisha Krishnan - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Thambi Ramaiah - Mynaa Ganesh - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa Madhavan - Manmadan Ambu Parthiban - Aayirathil Oruvan Sampath Raj - Goa | Saranya Ponvannan - Thenmerku Paruvakaatru Susan - Mynaa Snigdha Akolkar - Nandalala Abirami - Angadi Theru Sangeetha - Manmadan Ambu |
| Best Comedian | Best Villain |
| Santhanam - Boss Engira Bhaskaran Ganja Karuppu - Kalavani M. S. Baskar & Chams - Irumbukkottai Murattu Singam Vadivelu - Nagaram Vivek - Singam | Rajinikanth - Enthiran A. L. Azhagappan - Easan A. Venkatesh - Angadi Theru Prakash Raj - Singam Vinod - Naan Mahaan Alla |
| Best Debut Actor | Best Debut Actress |
| Vidharth - Mynaa Adharvaa - Baana Kaathadi Arulnidhi - Vamsam Mahesh - Angaadi Theru Myshkin - Nandhalala | Amala Paul - Mynaa Amy Jackson - Madrasapattinam Samantha - Baana Kaathadi Nandhagi - Aval Peyar Thamizharasi Oviya - Kalavani |
| Best Music Director | Best Cinematographer |
| A. R. Rahman - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa D. Imman - Mynaa G. V. Prakash Kumar - Madrasapattinam Ilayaraaja - Nandalala Rahnananthan - Thenmerku Paruvakaatru Yuvan Shankar Raja - Paiyaa | R. Rathnavelu - Enthiran Santhosh Sivan - Raavanan Nirav Shah - Madrasapattinam M. Sukumar - Mynaa Richard M. Nathan - Angadi Theru |
| Best Editor | Best Art Director |
| Kasi Viswanathan - Naan Mahaan Alla Anthony - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa LVK Dass - Mynaa A. Sreekar Prasad - Angadi Theru V. T. Vijayan - Singam | Selvakumar - Madrasapattinam Muthuraj - Irumbukkottai Murattu Singam Rajeevan - Naan Mahaan Alla Sabu Cyril - Enthiran T. Santhanam - Aayirathil Oruvan |
| Best Male Playback Singer | Best Female Playback Singer |
| Vijay Prakash - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa Karthik - Raavanan Haricharan - Paiyaa Roop Kumar Rathod - Madrasapattinam Alphonse Joseph - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa | Shreya Ghoshal - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya Chinmayi - Endhiran Shreya Ghoshal - Raavanan Harini - Madarasapattinam Andrea Jeremiah - Goa Anuradha Sriram - Raavanan |
| Best Lyricist | Best Story, Screenplay Writer |
| Vairamuthu - Thenmerku Paruvakaatru Gangai Amaran - Goa Na. Muthukumar - Angadi Theru Thamarai - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa Yugabharathi - Mynaa | Prabhu Solomon - Mynaa |
| Best Choreographer | Best Stunt Director |
| Dinesh - Easan Remo Fernandez - Enthiran Kandaas - Angadi Theru Raju Sundaram - Enthiran Flexy Stu - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa | Anal Arasu - Naan Mahaan Alla Anal Arasu - Singam Peter Hein - Enthiran Kanal Kannan - Paiyaa Rambo Rajkumar - Aayirathil Oruvan |
| Best Make Up | Best Costume Designer |
| Banu - Endhiran | Deepali Noor - Madrasapattinam Erum Ali - Aayirathil Oruvan Nalini Sriram - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa Manish Malhotra - Enthiran Sai - Irumbukkottai Murattu Singam |
| Best Find of the Year | Best Crew |
| Remo D'Souza for Endhiran Madhan Karky for Endhiran | Mynaa |
| Contribution to Tamil Cinema | Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan Award for Excellence in Indian Cinema |
| Sundaram Master | K. Balachander |
| Entertainer of the Year | Cinema for Social Responsibility Award |
| Surya Sivakumar - Singam | Raghava Lawrence |

### Favorite Awards

| Favorite Hero | Favorite Heroine |
| Rajinikanth - Enthiran Ajith Kumar - Aasal Kamal Haasan - Manmadan Ambu Suriya - Singam Vijay - Sura (film) | Trisha Krishnan - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa Aishwarya Rai - Enthiran Anushka Shetty - Singam Nayantara - Boss Engira Bhaskaran Tamannaah Bhatia - Paiyaa |
| Favorite Film | Favorite Director |
| Endhiran - Sun Pictures | S. Shankar - Enthiran Gautham Vasudev Menon - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa Hari - Singam Mani Ratnam - Raavanan N. Linguswamy - Paiyaa |
| Favourite Song |
| En Kadhal Solla - Paiyaa - Yuvan Shankar Raja Hosanna - Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya Kadhal Vandhale - Singam Kilimanjaro - Endhiran Un Mela Aasadhaan - Aayirathil Oruvan | |