Padmarajan award for Best Short Story and Cinema.

It has been instituted by the Padmarajan Memorial Trust in memory of Malayalam cinema's highly-celebrated film maker Padmarajan.

The best director will get a cash prize of Rs. 20,000 and a citation, while the award for the best screenplay has a cash prize of Rs. 10,000 and a citation

The award for the year 2010 was won by vipin vijay for Chitrasoothram