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:
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
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.
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.
Here are some brief inferences from this year’s song ratings.
1. Justin Prabhakaran has clearly dominated the playlists of this year.
2. There is an increase in usage of old songs, tunes of old songs, traditional tunes, and copyright-free folk tunes.
3. A sort of resurrection has happened this year after the major slump in 2018 when the quality of songs plummeted.
4. Many a good songs ended up with same ratings — indicating a healthy trend — but all these songs have come from movies aplenty, which means there is a serious dearth of good song albums.
5. The descent of Ghibran! The most worrying thing. Among his 5 albums this year only 2 songs have found their way into the Top 100. Not a single song is featured in Top 50.
In this piece on The Hindu, Sreedhar Pillai observes how OTT platforms have become a major player in Tamil film industry.
Irrespective of the window period, casual movie goers would wait for movies to arrive on OTT if it is established before the release that they will eventually be available for streaming.
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
We have almost reached the end of another year. As is the tradition, come December 1, our annual process to bring out this year’s edition of the CM’s SATC would start. Here is our calendar of events for the 8th Annual Awards:
8th Annual CM’s SATC – 2019
We welcome each and every cinema consumer to participate in this joyous process, engineered by the purest award-presenting body of Tamil cinema.
Visit Awards Info for any assistance on selecting the nominees. For further clarifications, reach out to us at contact@cmsatc.com
Our members can vote for your favourites here! To enroll as a member, click here.
This invitation is jointly issued by:
All the Members of the CM’s SATC Family, All the Members of Jury Panels, The 5-Star Administrators (Awards Conferment | Website Management | Media and Marketing | Donations and Contributions | Public Relations), The CEO, and The Founder & Creative Director the Common Man’s Standardized Awards for Tamil Cinema
A few days ago yet another media group jumped into awards business: Zee Tamil. It is no earth-shattering news, but it demands our attention nevertheless. You may recall that after running a few editions, Star Vijay stopped its own version — Vijay Awards — citing lack of interest among audiences. However, Star group found a solid footing in the state with plenty of satellite and digital (Hotstar) rights acquisitions. Seen on that front, this venture by Zee Tamil, which is all set to present its first edition of awards from 2020, will help them become a major player among Tamil satellite channels through movie rights acquisitions. Considering this, we cannot really expect cent percent integrity from this group as well.
An interesting aspect though is the selection of members for the jury panel. They have got it right in their first ever edition itself by choosing five eminent personalities who, to quote Suhasini (one of the jury memebers herself), “have never compromised in [their] works” to serve as juries: Baradwaj Rangan, Suhasini Mani Ratnam, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Bharat Bala, and Karu. Palaniappan. One has to wait and watch if the jury body has complete authority over the selection of winners which will foster some sort of credibility to its name.
To weigh the worth of Zee Cine Awards Tamil, you can compare our set of winners and the one from Zee Tamil — though it is not certain if they would consider only the films from 2019 (a movie still from a 2018 release was seen in one of the launch posters) — after their event on January 4, 2020.
the Common Man's Standardized Awards for Tamil Cinema 