Submit your Nominations here! Visit Awards Info page for more details.
Schedule of Events
October 31
Release of Schedule of Events
November 1
Start of Nomination Process
December 10
Release of the list of Best 15 Movies of 2025
December 15
End of Nomination Process
December 20
Release of Nominees List
December 21
Start of Voting Process
December 30
End of Voting Process
December 31
Conferment of Awards
Important Note:
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The release of Nominees list & subsequent announcement of winners are delayed due to technical reasons. Both are expected by June 2026.
Update (2324 hours,Dec. 10)
The list of Best 15 Movies of the year is released now. Click here for the list.
Update (2324 hours, Nov. 15)
Submit your Nominations here! Visit Awards Info page for more details.
Schedule of Events
November 10
Release of Schedule of Events
November 15
Start of Nomination Process
December 10
Release of the list of Best 15 Movies of 2024
December 15
End of Nomination Process
December 20
Release of Nominees List
December 21
Start of Voting Process
December 30
End of Voting Process
December 31
Conferment of Awards
Important Note:
Our website is still functioning without any maintenance and therefore, kindly expect delays in page updates with respect to new changes. We are trying to update the pages with new info asap. Volunteers needed, WhatsApp: +91 88706 27354
Warm greetings to all the esteemed members of the CM’s SATC.
As we step into the second decade of the Common Man’s Standardized Awards for Tamil Cinema, we would like to thank each and everyone who supported us throughout our 10-year journey. At this juncture, we are elated to announce that our official WhatsApp channel is live now and we request all the members to join the channel as all the important updates will be shared through the channel from this year onwards.
Coming to the business, the 11th Annual Awards is around the corner and as usual, the rituals have started already. The CM’s SATC Year is back to normal (Dec. 15/16 to Dec. 15) for this calendar year, after the last two got adjusted for the pandemic-affected period.
Here we present the schedule of events. Do join us in celebrating the best of Tamil cinema this year!
Schedule of Events
Important Note:
Our website is still functioning without any maintenance and therefore, kindly expect delays in page updates with respect to new changes. We are trying to update the pages with new info asap.
The much-awaited 9th Annual Awards is around the corner. Yes, the Common Man’s Standardized Awards for Tamil Cinema – 2021 (for the combined years 2020 & 2021) which got delayed due to the pandemic is happening now.
The list of films considered for the Awards can be found here.
Schedule of Events
Important Note:
Our website is still functioning without any maintenance and therefore, kindly expect delays in page updates with respect to new changes. We are trying to update the pages with new info asap.
Technically, this should have been the eleventh year & statistically, this should have been the ninth year — the last conferment was the 8th Annual CM’s SATC for the year 2019.
So, yes, the 9th Annual Awards would be presented later for the years 2020 & 2021 combined, as the pandemic hit period has had less number of releases. Later because the films from those two years haven’t been evaluated yet — we were against direct OTT releases then, due to various reasons.
Therefore, the 10th Annual CM’s SATC = the Common Man’s Standardized Awards for Tamil Cinema – 2022
What’s changed:
🔻We are considering ALL the films that are listed in Wiki, which includes direct OTT releases. This means we are essentially removing the clause that requires a film to have been screened in a theatre for more than 3 days outside City area.
🔻We have also reduced the minimum running length of films from 100 to 90 minutes to be eligible for consideration.
❌The third criteria remains unchanged — movies dubbed into Tamil are NOT eligible for consideration.
We are elated to add few more exclusive, ad hoc Award categories which will ensure complete evaluation of all the films and appreciation of everything that stood out among & inside them. The following 5 will take the total tally of Awards presented from 40 to 45*.
1) Best Shot/Frame
2) Best Scene Choreography — Staging
3) Best Scene Choreography — Writing
4) Best Intermission Block
5) Best Ending Block
*This addition will be applicable from the 10th Annual Awards only.
Schedule of Events
Important Note:
Our website is still functioning without any maintenance and therefore, kindly expect delays in page updates with respect to new changes. We are trying to update the pages with new info asap.
As the theatres all over India are closed for more than two months now due to COVID-19 pandemic, there is a stagnation in the release of films. The release of some major films have been postponed sine die and of some have been pushed to next year. At this juncture, we at the CM’s SATC are forced to take an important decision regarding the 9th Annual Awards — 2020.
We had a similar situation the year before last (2018) when Tamil cinema production was shut down for almost 2 months. But normalcy was restored soon and we had more than enough releases throughout the rest of the year. Unfortunately, the current situation is so grim that a film’s release is amongst of least priority.
We don’t, as yet, see the reopening of theatres especially in Tamilnadu, happening anytime soon. So, we have decided to spell out the cut-off date for any chance of this year’s Awards to happen. The cut-off date would be July 31, 2020. If the theatres across TN do not reopen by the date mentioned, it will be — we are extremely saddened to announce — the last nail in the coffin for this year’s Awards.
We deeply regret and share your grief of missing out on movies.
Our list of Best 15 Movies from 2019* — another year, similar to 2018, reminding the serious dearth of comedy — is out now. Check out the list here.
If there is any update to the list with respect to new releases from next two weeks, the same will be carried out asap. The updated, final list — with or without any changes — will be available at the same URL from Dec. 15, 2019.
*The CM’s SATC Year 2019: Dec. 16, 2018 to Dec. 15, 2019
This is that time of a year again. Everybody is in a hurry to bring out different, inventive, and quirky “lists.” And it seems like there is a virtual race as to who comes up with these lists first (P.S: we never participate in the race). So, with 2 more months to go before 2019 gets wrapped up, here we have one of them already from Film Companion, which has been prepared by India’s finest film critic Baradwaj Rangan.
Though, CM’s SATC reckons, a few great films are missing on the list, the ones on it are thoroughly deserving except 3 not-so-great movies — VTV, VIP, and NRD — that could have been replaced by movies like Onaayum Aattukkuttiyum. In the making of an immensely important list of the entire decade, the self-imposed limit of one film per director — which explains certain obvious exclusions — is a heavy blow to the authenticity and credibility of the list. Also, while BR may prefer the term “memorable” to “best,” the title uses the term “Greatest,” leave alone “best.” It is only fortunate that some of the films on the list are in fact both great and memorable. Here’s that solid list: “25 Greatest Tamil Films Of The Decade“
It’s no surprise that the CM’s SATC threw its weight behind and celebrated almost all the films on that list when they were released.
Oh, yes, we hear you. Our version of the list — Best Movies Of The Decade (2010-2019) — will be out in 2020.
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