CPC Cine Awards is an annual awards' ceremony for films in Malayalam film industry, which is crowd-sourced and hosted by the Cinema Paradiso Club.
History
Cinema Paradiso Club, and also known as CPC, was formed by a group of cinephiles in the year 2010 in Kerala, India. The idea of honoring the best performances in Malayalam cinema evolved in mid-2015. The first crowd-sourced CPC Cine Awards was announced in 2016 for the films released in 2015 in malayalam film industry as CPC Cine Awards 2015. For CPC Cine Awards 2016, combination of votes from members and the score from the jury was used for declaring the winners. On 19 February 2017, the awards were distributed to the winners in a ceremony held at KochiCPC Cine Awards 2017 had a change in the polling system, that the poll was open to the public, which in the previous years were restricted to the members of the facebook group. Similar to the previous year, the Special Honorary Award, was selected by the special committee and was awarded to K. G. George for his contributions to Malayalam cinema. The winners were declared and announced to the public on 27 January 2018 CPC Cine Awards 2018 winners were declared on 28 January 2019 and distributed at the ceremony on 17 February 2019 at IMA House, Kochi
Awards ceremonies
CPC Cine Awards 2015 had no official ceremony. The 2016 award ceremony was held on 19 February 2017 at Cochin Palace Hotel, Kochi. Since it was a crowd sourced event, the program did not invite much media attention initially. The reactions from award winners like Vinayakan, Rajisha Vijayan, Indrans, Manikandan R Achari, Dileesh Pothan, Syam Pushkaran etc. made the news and as such awards received some media attention. CPC Cine Awards 2017 award ceremony was held on 18 February 2018 at IMA House, Kochi.. The event's major draw was honouring veteran filmmaker K G George. He was draped with a ‘ponnada’ by filmmakers Sathyan Anthikad, Sibi Malayil and Kamal.. Also a documentary film by the name '8 ½ Intercuts – Life and Films of K G George' that was based life and career of KG George was screened at the event. CPC Cine Awards 2018 award ceremony was held on 17 February 2019 at IMA House, Kochi. In the event, the senior stunt master Thyagarajan was honored with Special Honorary Award. He was draped with a ‘ponnada’ by actor Joju George and scriptwriter P. F. Mathews . CPC Cine Awards 2019 award ceremony was held on 16 February 2020 at IMA House, Kochi. In the event, the two film production houses Udaya Studios, Merryland Studios were honored with Special Honorary Award
Awards of Merit categories
CPC Cine Awards 2015 had only awards in 7 categories. For CPC Cine Awards 2016, award categories increased the number to 10. In CPC Cine Awards 2017, a new category for Best Editor was included and also change in labels to existing awards were implemented. Best Supporting Actor and Actress were renamed to Best Actor and Actress in a Character Role. For CPC Cine Awards 2018, the categories Best Background Score, Best Original Song and Best Sound Design were included and the category Best Music Director was discontinued changing the total count to 13. For CPC Cine Awards 2019, two more categories were included viz Best Costume Design and Best Production Design.
CPC Cine Awards 2018 was criticized for not including actors Dileep and Alencier Ley Lopez in the final nominations. The club had declared the removal of these actors from the 2018 awards with respect to their alleged involvement in serious abuse cases against certain women co-actors which awaited court judgment.
