Awards, Honours and Recognitions
Mammootty has won three National Film Awards, Five Kerala State Film Awards, eleven Filmfare Awards, eleven Kerala Film Critics Awards and five Asianet Film Awards (from fourteen nominations). In 1998, Government of India honored Mammootty, with its fourth highest civilian award, Padma Shri, awarded for his national service, including his contribution to the Indian film industry. In 2009 he won the maiden COSINE Award instituted by Chaldean Syrian Higher Secondary School, Thrissur. He was conferred with Doctor of Letters degree by University of Calicut and University of Kerala in 2010.
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