- Retrospective at the Kerala International Film Festival, India. (2000)
- Won the Kerala State Award for Best Film for Nirmalyam (1973), Bandhanam (1978), and Kadavu (1991). He won the Best Screenplay Award in 1986, and the Best Story Award for Oppol (1980), _Trishna (1981)_, Valarthu Mrugangal (1981), Aaroodam (1983), Amrutham Gamaya (1987), The Master Carpenter (1991), and Kadavu (1991) (also winning it in 1985 and 1989).
Nair was awarded Best Director for Nirmalyam (1973) and Oru Cheru Punchiri (2000), and Best Art Director for Nirmalyam (1973).
He was awarded Best Screenplay writer for Parinayam (1994) and Daya (1998), Best Scriptwriter for Olavum Theeravum (1969) and Nirmalyam (1973), and Best Story writer for Sukrutham (1994). - Nair scripted, produced and directed his debut film Nirmalyam (1973), which won the Indian President's Gold Medal (the national award for best film).
- The essence of his work is self-suffering and its emotional intensity and rhythms of love hold the readers sticking to him. He is also among Kerala's most popular scriptwriters and directors of mainstream cinema.
- Honored with the highest literary award the nation confers on a writer, the Jnanpith in 1995. Prior to that, he had received many awards and accolades like both state and center Sahitya Akademi Awards. He occupied and continues to occupy many important and powerful positions in various literary bodies including the presidency of Kerala Sahitya Akademi and the chairmanship of Tunchan Memorial Trust.
- Novelist and film-maker M.T. Vasudevan Nair is one of the most respected Indian writers today. He rose to eminence through his well-crafted novels and short stories in Malayalam whose romantic poignancy and tender portrayal of the human condition endeared the author to his readers. He captured in subtle detail the pain and anguish that marked the ebb of feudalism in Kerala in many of his novels.
- His wife is an expert teacher and guru in the Indian classical dance form of Mohiniyattam
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