Malayalam films

Malayalam cinema
Number of screens	1015 Single-screens in Kerala state of India.
Main distributors	Aashirvad Cinemas August Cinema Graand Production Galaxy Films Anto Joseph Film Company Maxlab Entertainments Mulakuppadam Films Sree Gokulam Films Navodaya Studio Merryland Studio LJ Films
Produced feature films (2014)
Total	201
Gross box office (2016)
National films	India: ₹900 crore (US$130 million)

Malayalam cinema is the Indian film industry based in the southern state of Kerala, dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalam language. Although the industry's gross box-office is smaller, when compared to larger market driven Indian industries such as Hindi cinema, Telugu cinema, and Tamil cinema, Malayalam films have gained unique recognition in world cinema for their technical finesse and craft. Malayalam films are released in India, and a handful of them being released in the United States, Australia, Germany, U. K . and the Persian Gulf. Works such as Marana Simhasanam and Vanaprastham were screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.Marana Simhasanam had garnered the coveted Caméra d'Or ("Golden Camera") for that year.

In 1982, Elippathayam won the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film Festival, and Most Original Imaginative Film of 1982 by the British Film Institute. Rajiv Anchal's Guru (1997) and Salim Ahamed's Adaminte Makan Abu (2011) are the Malayalam films to be sent by India as its official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards. Adoor Gopalakrishnan has garnered the International Film Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) for his works such as Mukhamukham (1984), Anantaram (1987), Mathilukal (1989), Vidheyan (1993), Kathapurushan (1995), and Nizhalkkuthu (2002).