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Lori Grimes
The Walking Dead character
Lori Grimes, as portrayed by Sarah Wayne Callies in the television series.
First appearance
Comic:
"Issue #2" (2003)
Television:
"Days Gone Bye"
(episode 1.01) (2010)
Last appearance
Comic:
"Issue #55" (flashback) (2008)
Television:
"Welcome to the Tombs"
(hallucination) (episode 3.16) (2013)
Created by
Robert Kirkman
Tony Moore
Charlie Adlard
Portrayed by
Sarah Wayne Callies
Information
Family
Jeffery Grimes (brother-in-law; comics)
Spouse(s)
Rick Grimes
Significant other(s)
Shane Walsh (ex-lover)
Children
Carl Grimes (son)
Judith Grimes (daughter)
Lori Grimes is a fictional character from the comic book series The Walking Dead and is portrayed by Sarah Wayne Callies in the American television series of the same name in the show's first three seasons. Created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore, the character made her debut in The Walking Dead #2 in 2003. In both forms of media, she is the wife of protagonist Rick Grimes and mother of Carl, and serves as the emotional core of the group. The character escaped the zombie apocalypse with Carl and Rick's partner Shane Walsh, and, believing her husband to be dead, started a relationship with Shane.
For her performance as Lori, Callies was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television in 2010, and was among the cast members of The Walking Dead winning the Satellite Award for Best Cast - Television Series in 2012.
Contents
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1 Appearances
1.1 Comic book series
1.2 Television series
1.2.1 Season 1
1.2.2 Season 2
1.2.3 Season 3
2 Development
2.1 Casting
3 Reception
3.1 Critical reception
4 References
5 External links
Appearances[edit]
Comic book series[edit]
Lori, as depicted in the comic book series.
Lori Grimes is an average middle-class housewife living in Cynthiana, Kentucky. As the outbreak begins, she and her son, Carl, are evacuated out of the city with help from her husband Rick's best friend and work partner, Shane Walsh, in hopes of getting to where her parents live. During the evacuation, the guilt that she has been wracked with over abandoning Rick leads her to have a sexual relationship with Shane,[1] which she deeply regrets afterward.[volume & issue needed] She continually brushes off Shane's attempts at advancing and ignores him even more when Rick miraculously arrives at their campsite.[volume & issue needed]
Lori soon finds out, after counting her missed periods, that she is pregnant; however, she hesitates to tell anybody until after Shane's death and their move back onto the road.[1]
Lori faces typical pregnancy issues such as morning sickness and mood swings throughout the first few months of her term. She and everyone else find relative stability at an abandoned prison, with hot showers, supplies, and security.[volume & issue needed] While at the prison, she also begins to deepen her bond with fellow survivor Carol Peletier.[volume & issue needed] Lori is frequently concerned with the well-being of both her family and the rest of the group. After giving birth to an infant girl that she and Rick name Judith,[volume & issue needed] she remains extremely protective over her.
During the final stages of the prison assault led by The Governor, Lori suffers a fatal shotgun blast to the back while she is carrying Judith by Lilly Caul. When Lori falls, Judith is crushed to death beneath her weight.[2]
Lori's death leaves Rick and Carl emotional wrecks. Rick suffers frightening hallucinations, both visual and auditory, at one point even using a phone to have what he believes are actual conversations with his deceased wife.[volume & issue needed] He confides in Michonne, who has also talked to a deceased loved one to help the coping process.[volume & issue needed] Carl frequently blames Rick for Lori and Judith's death.[volume & issue needed]
Television series[edit]
Season 1[edit]
After Rick is wounded in the line of duty and left in a coma during the outbreak, Lori, believing him to be dead, is accompanied by Rick's best friend, Shane, towards Atlanta. They befriend Carol and her family while on the road, and later both groups settle with other survivors on the outskirts of Atlanta near an abandoned quarry. Lori, convinced of Rick's death by witnessing the military bomb Atlanta, eventually succumbs to her distraught state and embarks on a passionate sexual relationship with Shane (about which Carl is oblivious). In the series premiere "Days Gone Bye", Lori is seen with Carl and Shane at the survivor camp outside of Atlanta. In the episode "Guts", Lori is in the camp when T-Dog makes contact as part of the group that went on a supply run to Atlanta. In the episode "Tell It to the Frogs", Lori is shocked (and overjoyed) when Rick returns with their scavenger group alive and well, though she quickly feels wracked with guilt over her affair with Shane. She bitterly ends her relationship with Shane, leaving him somewhat confused and leading to awkward confrontations between the two. In the episode "Vatos", walkers overrun the campsite, killing and injuring many quarry survivors. In the episode "Wildfire", Lori and the group travel to the CDC. In the season finale "TS-19", when the group briefly spends time at the CDC, Lori is nearly raped by a depressed and drunken Shane, but fights him off leaving him wounded, humiliated and embarrassed by his actions. Following the CDC's destruction, they start traveling again.
Season 2[edit]
In the season premiere "What Lies Ahead", the group becomes stalled on the highway as Carol's daughter Sophia becomes separated from the group and lost. Shane tells Lori that he is planning to leave the group, and they argue about this. In the episode "Bloodletting", Carl has accidentally been shot by Otis and taken to Hershel's farm, so Hershel's daughter Maggie came on horseback to retrieve Lori. Shane and Otis leave the farm to retrieve the needed medical supplies for Hershel to perform the surgery needed to save Carl's life. In the episode "Save the Last One", Hershel informs Rick and Lori that he may need to do the operation without the equipment, and as Rick and Lori relent, Shane returns with the needed supplies but reports that Otis gave his own life to ensure Shane's safety. In the episode "Cherokee Rose", days after arriving at the farm, Lori asks Glenn to bring something back from a pharmacy, which turns out to be a pregnancy test. Lori discovers much to her dismay that she is pregnant, and immediately realizes that the baby could be Shane's or Rick's. In the episode "Chupacabra", Glenn learns that Lori is pregnant, and she begs him not to tell Rick. Lori and Carol make a dinner for Hershel as thanks for letting them stay on his farm. In the episode "Secrets", after struggling with whether to keep the baby (going as far as having Glenn retrieve "Morning After" pills for her and swallowing several before forcing herself to throw them back up), she begins to accept the predicament. However, before she is able to fully come to terms with the pregnancy, Rick, having found the boxes for her pills, confronts Lori about keeping the pregnancy a secret. Lori confesses that she struggled with the pregnancy, admitting the affair with Shane to Rick (which he nobly, if reluctantly, accepts and seemingly forgives her for) and expressing her fears about bringing a child into the broken world, where it would know only fear, hunger and pain. Reinforced by Rick's support, she finally accepts the pregnancy and makes it clear that, regardless of the child's paternity, it will be raised by her and Rick. In the mid-series finale "Pretty Much Dead Already", Glenn tells the group that Herhsel's barn is full of walkers. Shane finds out that Lori is pregnant, and she insists that the baby is Rick's. Shane eventually breaks open the barn and the group kills the walkers as they shamble out; when Sophia is revealed to be a walker, the last one to leave the barn, Lori comforts Carl who had befriended her.
In the mid-season premiere "Nebraska", Hershel leaves the farm, and Rick and Glenn go to town to find him. Lori becomes concerns about Rick and goes off alone to find him, but crashes her car. In the episode "Triggerfinger", Shane goes looking for Lori, and tricks her into thinking that Rick had come back to the farm, to get her to come back with him. Shane and Lori have a private talk, where Shane reveals that his feelings during their relationship were real and that they should be together. When Rick does come back, Lori tells him that Shane thinks the baby is his, and that Shane had threatened Dale, and that Dale told her he felt that Shane killed Otis to save himself and may kill again. In the episode "18 Miles Out", Lori, Maggie, and Andrea take care of Hershel's younger daughter Beth, who was recovering from the shock of seeing her mother killed as one of the walkers in the barn. Beth becomes suicidal, and when Andrea encourages her to make her own choice about living, Lori and Maggie force themselves into the bathroom to find Beth had made an unsuccessful attempt to kill herself. In the episode "Judge, Jury, Executioner", Dale is mortally wounded by a walker and Daryl puts Dale out of his misery. In the episode "Better Angels", Lori's attitude toward Shane softens following Dale's death, as she apologizes for all that she had put him through since Rick's return. However, Shane still sees Rick as a threat and tries to kill him, but Rick was expecting an attack and kills Shane instead. When Shane reanimates as a walker, Carl shoots Shane in the head, but this gunshot attracts more walkers from the woods. In the season finale "Beside the Dying Fire", the group is forced to evacuate the farm and onto the road after a massive herd of walkers descends onto the property, during which time Lori is separated from Carl and Rick, fleeing with T-Dog and Beth. Shortly after reuniting with Rick and Carl at the original rendezvous point on the highway, Lori learns of the circumstances of Shane's death, and is deeply disturbed by Rick's lack of remorse over killing Shane, as well as the fact that Carl put him down when he turned.
Season 3[edit]
In the season premiere "Seed", Rick and Carl have both grown distant from Lori. The group finds a prison that they clear out to make a home out of, so that Lori and Rick can have a place to raise their baby. She has become paranoid about the baby, contemplating a variety of negative outcomes that include death for one or both of them. In the episode "Sick", Lori takes care of Hershel after he is bitten by a walker and has his leg amputated below the knee. In the episode "Killer Within", a swarm of walkers invades the prison, thanks to the escaped prisoner Andrew, forcing Lori, Maggie and Carl to venture deeper into the prison where Lori goes into labor. Due to complications, she ultimately gives birth by an improvised Caesarean section (C-section) with the help of Maggie. The lack of anaesthesia causes her to pass out from shock and presumably subsequently die from blood loss. Carl, present during the operation, insists on being the one to shoot Lori in order to prevent re-animation. Off-camera, the sound of a shot signifies Lori's death.
In the episode "Say the Word", Rick enters the boiler room where Lori gave birth, and finds her corpse missing, and it is suggested that it has been eaten by a single walker with a distended stomach, although there are no skeletal remains. Rick is about to cut open the bloated belly of the dead walker to see his wife's remains, but instead repeatedly stabs the belly in a rage. In the episode "Hounded", when Rick believes that he is receiving phone calls from people who can help his group survive, only to later hear voices of the people he has lost during their struggle for survival, Lori's voice being the last he hears. In the episode "The Suicide King", Rick sees a vision of Lori while deciding the fate for Tyreese's group. Rick lashes out at the vision and orders it to leave, while the rest of the group believe that Rick is lashing out at Tyreese's group, who leave in fear. In the episode "Home", Rick sees Lori first by the makeshift gravesite, then at the bridge outside of the Prison. Rick tells Hershel that he knows Lori isn't there, but he believes that seeing her is a sign of something. In the episode "This Sorrowful Life", Rick sees Lori standing on the prison catwalk as he searches for wire outside to tie up Michonne. Rick tries to convince himself that Lori isn't really there, although Lori doesn't disappear when he glances back up. Rick drops the wire and departs back inside the prison. In the season finale "Welcome to the Tombs", Lori once again appears to Rick on the prison catwalk as the group departs due to the impending attack by the Woodbury group. After Rick, Daryl, and Michonne return to the prison with Karen, Tyreese, Sasha, and the other Woodbury citizens, Rick looks back at the catwalk and notices that Lori's vision is no longer there.
Development[edit]
Casting[edit]
Lori Grimes is portrayed by Sarah Wayne Callies, who was cast in the series in April 2010.[3] Callies saw an issue of the comic book series while at a bookstore in Vancouver. "I was looking through for the latest issue that had just come out and the owner of the comic book store came up to me and said, 'I see you're checking out The Walking Dead," she stated. "It's amazing.' I said, 'Yeah, I'm a huge fan.' And he said, 'You know they're making a television show for AMC. It's supposed to be really good.' I kind of looked at him and I froze. I just went, 'I'll keep an eye out for it.' And I ran out of the store."[4]
In the comics, Kirkman resolved the love triangle between Lori, Shane, and Rick very quickly, but in the TV show he decided to spend more time exploring this relationship.[5]
Callies was in favor of Lori dying while in the Prison, just like the comic character. In an interview she stated, "I argued that it was necessary to kill Lori and I feel very strongly that for all of the other deviations we may have from the comic book, killing Lori does something to Rick that is vital for the story and can't be done any other way."[6]
Reception[edit]
Critical reception[edit]
Sarah Wayne Callies' performance received mixed reviews while the character of Lori received generally negative reviews.
Regarding the television adaptation of the character, Lori has received generally negative reviews, with Sarah Wayne Callies' performance receiving a mixed response from critics. Critics were polarized with the characters' reaction to Lori opting for an abortion in the episode "Secrets". Writing for The A.V. Club, Zack Handlen criticized the character's opposing views on the matter, and stated that their reasoning was invalid. Handlen wrote. "I'm not even sure it would be possible for her to abort the pregnancy at this point, but the show's working on the assumption that having a child in a world where death literally lurks around every corner is an unequivocal good. The only person who’s been anti-pregnancy is Lori, and the show hasn't managed to cast her in a very good light, so it’s not like her arguments hold much water—which is also ridiculous, because ultimately, her opinion is the only one that matters."[7] HitFix writer Alan Sepinwall reflected similar thoughts, and stated that Rick's arguments against Lori's attempts were obsolete.[8]
The love triangle involving Lori, Rick, and Shane, however, was commended. Meslow felt that the interactions between Lori and Rick possessed "as much rawness and honesty as could be hoped for."[9]
Commentators criticized the character development of Lori Grimes in the episode "Nebraska". Eric Goldman for IGN was angry upon viewing the crash sequence, avouching that it stunted any development intended for the scene. He stated, "The Walking Dead really needs to work on strengthening its female characters, and it doesn't help when Lori has a major accident for such a stupid reason, getting distracted as she looked at a map while she drove. Yeah, yeah, there was a zombie in the road, but it could have been an animal [...] just as easily, and it really undercut the intended drama of her situation when it just seems so stupid that it happened at all."[10] Zack Handlen for The A.V. Club thought that the foundation set up for furthering the storyline progression was contrived,[11] while Aaron Rutkoff of The Wall Street Journal said that the premise of the dilemma made no sense.[12]
Critics were divided upon the interaction between Rick and Lori after she discovers Shane had died. Commentators were critical of the performance of Sarah Wayne Callies. Although The Huffington Post's Maureen Ryan reacted positively to Lincoln's performance, she affirmed that the contradictory nature of Lori almost ruined the scene.[13] Similarly, New York's Starlee Kine criticized Callies' facial expressions during the sequence.[14] Josh Jackson, who writes for Paste wrote, "If that was a challenge from the writers, though, Sarah Wayne Callies has to feel like they're just messing with her at this point. Her character, Lori, basically tells Rick that Shane needs to be put down, and then treats him like a monster when he’s forced to follow through with it."[15]
The fates of Lori and the character of T-Dog in the episode "Killer Within" garnered favorable reviews from television commentators. According to HitFix writer Alan Sepinwall, the moment when Lori and Carl share their goodbyes was the most heartbreaking event since the ending of the second season episode "Pretty Much Dead Already".[16] Los Angeles Times columnist Laura Hudson felt it was a grim departure for a character who endured long bouts of grief for reasons beyond her control.[17] Erik Kain from Forbes magazine found Lori's death especially difficult to watch, and was shocked by T-Dog's "sudden" death despite the fact that he "was never as prominent a figure" on the program. "As hard as these deaths were to watch," Kain wrote, "they also give me faith in the show."[18] Even though he stated that T-Dog died "a hero's death", Michael Rapoport of the Wall Street Journal concluded that Lori's "gut-churning" demise was the more memorable.[19]
Lori's demise was featured in The Huffington Post's list of "The Biggest 'OMG' TV Moments of 2012",[20] and placed nineteenth in Slate's article covering the year's most noteworthy television moments. Journalist Chris Kirk said that the segment was "utterly surprising", and pointed out that the writers beguiled viewers by shedding light onto Lori's crumbled relationship with Rick.[21] In contrast, Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club in his review felt the episode "stumble[d]" in how [...] Lori [was] eliminated and in how the Woodbury storyline repeated what was already known. Handlen commented in his B+ review that "killing [...] Lori earned the show an immediate thrill, but it also meant crossing off [a] potential source[...] of drama, [someone] who had a history on the series, however thin or poorly developed that history might have been."[22]
Sarah Wayne Callies' performance in the episode was unanimously praised, however. IGN writer Eric Goldman commended Callies[23] Sepinwall added that Callies "absolutely sold" the portrayal of a mother saying "goodbye to the son who had to grow up much too quickly".[8]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Kirkman, Robert (w), Adlard, Charlie (p), Adlard, Charlie, Cliff Rathburn (gray tones) (i), Moore, Tony (cover) (col), Kirkman, Robert (let). "Miles Behind Us" The Walking Dead v2, 8: [22] (May 2004), 1071 N. Batavia St., Suite A, Orange, CA 92867: Image Comics
Jump up ^ Kirkman, Robert (w), Adlard, Charlie (p), Adlard, Charlie (inker, cover), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones, cover colors) (i), Wooton, Rus (let). "Made To Suffer" The Walking Dead v8, 48: [22] (April 2, 2008), 1942 University Avenue, Suite 305, Berkeley, CA 94704: Image Comics
Jump up ^ Patrick, Andy (April 30, 2010). "Exclusive: Sarah Wayne Callies Joins 'Walking Dead'". Entertainment Weekly. Time, Inc. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
Jump up ^ Fall, Christina (November 15, 2010). "Q&A - Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes)". AMC. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
Jump up ^ Collis, Clark (November 1, 2010). "'The Walking Dead': Comic book series creator Robert Kirkman answers our questions about last night's shocking pilot". Entertainment Weekly. Time, Inc. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
Jump up ^ Lesley Goldberg 'The Walking Dead's' Sarah Wayne Callies: Lori 'Has To Die' The Hollywood Reporter (June 20th, 2012)
Jump up ^ Handlen, Zack (November 20, 2011). "Secrets". The A.V. Club. The Onion. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b Sepinwall, Alan (November 20, 2011). "Review: 'The Walking Dead' - 'Secrets': Target practice". HitFix. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
Jump up ^ Meslow, Scott (November 21, 2011). "On 'The Walking Dead,' Love in the Time of Zombies". The Atlantic. Jay Leuf. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
Jump up ^ Goldman, Eric (February 12, 2012). "The Walking Dead: "Nebraska" Review". IGN. Retrieved February 20, 2012.
Jump up ^ Handlen, Zack (February 12, 2012). "Nebraska". The A.V. Club. The Onion. Retrieved February 12, 2012.
Jump up ^ Rutkoff, Aaron (February 13, 2012). "‘The Walking Dead,’ Season 2, Episode 8, ‘Nebraska’: TV Recap". Wall Street Journal. Les Hinton. Retrieved February 20, 2012.
Jump up ^ Ryan, Maureen (March 18, 2012). "'The Walking Dead' Finale Recap: The Best Episode Since The Pilot?". The Huffington Post. Arianna Huffington. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
Jump up ^ Kine, Starlee (March 19, 2012). "The Walking Dead Recap: Action at Last". New York. New York Media. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
Jump up ^ Jackson, Josh (March 19, 2012). "The Walking Dead: Review Beside the Dying Fire". Paste. Wolfgang's Vault. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
Jump up ^ Sepinwall, Alan (November 4, 2012). "Review: 'The Walking Dead' - 'Killer Within': Hard labor". HitFix. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
Jump up ^ Hudson, Laura (November 5, 2012). "'Walking Dead' recap: No more kid stuff". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
Jump up ^ Kain, Erik (November 4, 2012). "'The Walking Dead' Review: Because I Could Not Stop For Death". Forbes. Forbes Publishing. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
Jump up ^ Rapoport, Michael (November 5, 2012). "‘The Walking Dead,’ Season 3, Episode 4, ‘Killer Within’: TV Recap". Wall Street Journal. Les Hinton. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Brody's 'Homeland' Tape, Lane's 'Mad Men' Death And More: The Biggest 'OMG' TV Moments Of 2012". The Huffington Post. Arianna Huffington. December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
Jump up ^ Kirk, Chris (December 27, 2012). "2012: The Year in TV Moments". Slate. The Slate Group. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
Jump up ^ Handlen, Zack (November 4, 2012). "Killer Within". The A.V. Club. The Onion, Inc. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
Jump up ^ Goldman, Eric (November 4, 2012). "The Walking Dead: "Killer Within" Review". IGN. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
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63rd Filmfare Awards
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63rd Filmfare Awards
Date
20 January 2018
Site
NSCI Dome, Mumbai
Hosted by
Shah Rukh Khan
Karan Johar
Ayushmann Khurrana
Parineeti Chopra
Official website
Filmfare Awards 2018
Highlights
Best Film
Hindi Medium
Critics Award
for Best Film
Newton
Most awards
Jagga Jasoos (4)
Most nominations
Jagga Jasoos (10)
Secret Superstar (10)
Television coverage
Network
Colors TV
← 62nd
Filmfare Awards
64th →
63rd Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by the Filmfare Magazine, honored the best Hindi language Indian films of 2017. The ceremony was held on 20 January 2018 and hosted by Shah Rukh Khan, Ayushmann Khurrana, Parineeti Chopra and Karan Johar.[1]
Contents
[hide]
1 Winners and nominees
1.1 Main awards
1.2 Critics' awards
1.2.1 Special awards
1.2.2 Technical Awards
1.2.3 Multiple nominations
1.2.4 Multiple awards
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
Winners and nominees[edit]
Main awards[edit]
Nominees were announced on 18 January 2018.[2] Winners were announced on 20 January 2018.[3]
Best Film
Best Director
Hindi Medium - T-Series and Maddock Films - Dinesh Vijan, Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar
Badrinath Ki Dulhania - Dharma Productions - Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar and Apoorva Mehta
Bareilly Ki Barfi - BR Studios and Junglee Pictures - Renu Ravi Chopra and Vineet Jain
Secret Superstar - Aamir Khan Productions - Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha - Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, KriArj Entertainment and Friday Filmworks - Aruna Bhatia, Shital Bhatia, Prernaa Arora, Arjun N. Kapoor and Hitesh Thakkar
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari – Bareilly Ki Barfi
Advait Chandan – Secret Superstar
Saket Chaudhary – Hindi Medium
Shashank Khaitan – Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Shree Narayan Singh – Toilet: Ek Prem Katha
Best Actor
Best Actress
Irfan Khan – Hindi Medium as Raj Batra
Akshay Kumar – Toilet: Ek Prem Katha as Keshav Sharma
Ayushmann Khurrana – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan as Mudit Sharma
Hrithik Roshan – Kaabil as Rohan Bhatnagar
Shah Rukh Khan – Raees as Raees Alam
Varun Dhawan – Badrinath Ki Dulhania as Badrinath Bansal
Vidya Balan – Tumhari Sulu as Sulochana "Sulu" Dubey
Alia Bhatt – Badrinath Ki Dulhania as Vaidehi Trivedi
Bhumi Pednekar – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan as Sugandha
Saba Qamar – Hindi Medium as Meeta Batra
Sridevi – Mom as Devki Sabarwal
Zaira Wasim – Secret Superstar as Insia Malik
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Rajkummar Rao – Bareilly Ki Barfi as Pritam Vidrohi
Aamir Khan – Secret Superstar as Shakti Kumar
Deepak Dobriyal – Hindi Medium as Shyamprakash Kori
Manav Kaul – Tumhari Sulu as Ashok Dubey
Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Mom as Daya Shankar Kapoor aka DK
Pankaj Tripathi – Newton as Assistant commandant Aatma Singh
Meher Vij – Secret Superstar as Najma Malik
Ratna Pathak Shah – Lipstick Under My Burkha as Usha "Rosy" Buaji
Seema Pahwa – Bareilly Ki Barfi as Susheela Mishra
Seema Pahwa – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan as Sugandha's Mother
Tillotama Shome – A Death in the Gunj as Bonnie Bakshi
Best Music Director
Best Lyricist
Pritam – Jagga Jasoos
Amaal Mallik, Tanishk Bagchi, Akhil Sachdeva – Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Tanishk Bagchi, Samira Koppikar, Sameer Uddin and Vayu – Bareilly Ki Barfi
Mithoon, Tanishk Bagchi, Rishi Rich, Farhan Saeed, Rahul Mishra, Ami Mishra – Half Girlfriend
Pritam – Jab Harry Met Sejal
Amit Trivedi – Secret Superstar
Amitabh Bhattacharya – "Ullu Ka Pattha" – Jagga Jasoos
Amitabh Bhattacharya – "Galti Se Mistake" – Jagga Jasoos
Arko Pravo Mukherjee – "Nazm Nazm" – Bareilly Ki Barfi
Kausar Munir – "Maana Ke Hum Yaar Nahin" – Meri Pyaari Bindu
Kausar Munir – "Nachdi Phira – Secret Superstar
Santanu Ghatak – "Rafu" – Tumhari Sulu
Best Playback Singer – Male
Best Playback Singer – Female
Arijit Singh – "Roke Na Ruke Naina" – Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Akhil Sachdeva – "Humsafar" – Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Arijit Singh – "Zaalima" – Raees
Arko Pravo Mukherjee – "Nazm Nazm" – Bareilly Ki Barfi
Ash King – "Baarish" – Half Girlfriend
Sachin Sanghvi – "Kho Diya" – Bhoomi
Meghna Mishra – "Nachdi Phira" – Secret Superstar
Monali Thakur – "Khol De Baahein" – Meri Pyaari Bindu
Nikhita Gandhi – "Ghar" – Jab Harry Met Sejal
Ronkini Gupta – "Rafu" – Tumhari Sulu
Shashaa Tirupati – "Kanha" – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan
Shreya Ghoshal – "Thodi Der" – Half Girlfriend
Critics' awards[edit]
Nominations for the critics award was announced on 19 January 2018.[4]
Best Film (Best Director)
Newton – Amit V Masurkar
A Death in the Gunj – Konkona Sen Sharma
Lipstick Under My Burkha – Alankrita Shrivastava
Mukti Bhawan – Shubhashish Bhutiani
Trapped – Vikramaditya Motwane
Best Actor
Best Actress
Rajkummar Rao – Trapped
Irrfan Khan – Hindi Medium
Rajkummar Rao – Newton
Ranbir Kapoor – Jagga Jasoos
Vikrant Massey – A Death in the Gunj
Zaira Wasim – Secret Superstar
Kangana Ranaut – Rangoon
Sridevi – Mom
Swara Bhaskar – Anaarkali of Aarah
Vidya Balan – Tumhari Sulu
Special awards[edit]
Lifetime Achievement Award
Mala Sinha
Bappi Lahiri
RD Burman Award
Not Awarded
Best Debut Director
Konkona Sen Sharma – A Death in the Gunj
Technical Awards[edit]
Best Story
Best Screenplay
Amit V Masurkar – Newton
Amit Joshi – Trapped
Rahul Dahiya – G Kutta Se
Shanker Raman and Sourabh Ratnu – Gurgaon
Shubhashish Bhutiani – Mukti Bhawan
Suresh Triveni – Tumhari Sulu
Shubhashish Bhutiani – Mukti Bhawan
Advait Chandan– Secret Superstar
Amit Joshi and Hardik Mehta – Trapped
Mayank Tewari and Amit V Masurkar – Newton
Subhash Kapoor – Jolly LLB 2
Best Dialogue
Best Editing
Hitesh Kewaliya – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan
Mayank Tewari and Amit V Masurkar – Newton
Nitesh Tiwari and Shreyas Jain – Bareilly Ki Barfi
Subhash Kapoor – Jolly LLB 2
Suresh Triveni and Vijay Maurya – Tumhari Sulu
Nitin Baid – Trapped
Aarif Sheikh and Manas Mittal – A Death in the Gunj
Monisha R. Baldawa – Mom
Shweta Venkat Mathew – Newton
Best Choreography
Best Cinematography
Vijay Ganguly and Ruel Dausan Varindani for Galti Se Mistake – Jagga Jasoos
Ganesh Acharya for Badri Ki Dulhania – Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Shiamak Davar for Ullu Ka Pattha – Jagga Jasoos
Sudesh Adhana for Bloody Hell – Rangoon
Vijay Ganguly for Ban Ja Rani – Tumhari Sulu
Vijay Ganguly for Khaana Khaake – Jagga Jasoos
Sirsha Ray – A Death in the Gunj
Jessica Lee Gagne and Pankaj Kumar – Daddy
Pankaj Kumar – Rangoon
Ravi Varman – Jagga Jasoos
Swapnil S Sonawane – Newton
Best Production Design
Best Sound Design
Parul Sondh – Daddy
Anita Rajgopalan Lata and Donal Raegan Gracy– Raees
Siddharth Sirohi – A Death in the Gunj
Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray – Rangoon
Anish John– Trapped
Baylon Fonseca and Dhiman Karmakar – Raees
Nihar Ranjan Samal – Mom
Subhash Sahoo -Tumhari Sulu
Udit Duseja – Daddy
Best Costume Design
Best Background Score
Rohit Chaturvedi – A Death in the Gunj
Dolly Ahluwalia – Rangoon
Nidhi and Divya Gambhir – Daddy
Pritam – Jagga Jasoos
Alokananda Dasgupta – Trapped
A. R. Rahman – Mom
Naren Chandavarkar and Benedict Taylor – Daddy
Sagar Desai – A Death in the Gunj
Tajdar Junaid – Mukti Bhawan
Best Special Effects
Best Action
Not Awarded
Tom Struthers – Tiger Zinda Hai
Allan Amin– Jagga Jasoos
Franz Spilhaus – Commando 2
Harpal Singh Pali and Ravi Kumar – Rangoon
K Ravi Varma – Raees
Multiple nominations[edit]
Jagga Jasoos – 10
Secret Superstar – 10
Tumhari Sulu – 9
A Death in the Gunj – 8
Badrinath Ki Dulhania – 8
Bareilly Ki Barfi – 8
Newton – 8
Trapped – 7
Hindi Medium – 6
Mom – 6
Raees – 5
Daddy – 5
Rangoon – 5
Shubh Mangal Saavdhan – 5
Mukti Bhawan – 4
Half Girlfriend – 3
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha – 3
Lipstick Under My Burkha – 2
Jolly LLB 2 – 2
Meri Pyaari Bindu – 2
Multiple awards[edit]
Jagga Jasoos – 4
Secret Superstar – 3
A Death in the Gunj – 3
Trapped – 3
Bareilly Ki Barfi – 2
Hindi Medium – 2
Newton – 2
See also[edit]
Filmfare Awards
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Shah Rukh Khan to host the 63rd Jio Filmfare Awards 2018".
Jump up ^ "63rd Jio Filmfare Awards 2018 Nominations". 18 January 2018.
Jump up ^ "63rd Jio Filmfare Awards 2018: Complete winners' list". The Times of India. 21 January 2018.
Jump up ^ "Critics' Award nominations for the 63rd Jio Filmfare Awards 2018". 19 January 2018.
External links[edit]
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Lucky Strike
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For other uses, see Lucky Strike (disambiguation).
Lucky Strike
Lucky Strike logo launched in 2013.
Product type
Cigarette
Produced by
British American Tobacco
Japan Tobacco
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (in the U.S.)
Introduced
1871; 146 years ago (1871)
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lucky Strike (cigarettes).
Lucky Strike is an American brand of cigarettes owned by the British American Tobacco groups. Often referred to as "Luckies", Lucky Strike was the top-selling cigarette brand in the United States during the 1930s.[1]
Contents
[hide]
1 Name
2 History
2.1 Post World War II
3 In popular culture
3.1 In art
3.2 In music
3.3 In television
3.4 In other uses
4 Cigarette camp
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Name[edit]
Lucky Strike brand was introduced in 1871 by the company R.A. Patterson in the USA as chewing tobacco. The founder of Luckies was inspired by the era's rush for gold searching. Only some of the gold diggers (about four out of 1000) were fortunate enough to find gold and this was often referred to as a lucky strike. By choosing this expression as the product's name, it meant consumers who were choosing the brand were lucky, as they were choosing a top-quality blend. Lucky Strike was a brand of chewing tobacco, and by the early 1900s, it had evolved into a cigarette.
A well circulated myth is that the name "Lucky Strike" refers to the fact that some cigarette packs contained marijuana, thus getting a "lucky strike" in receiving one of these. This, according to Snopes however, is considered simply an urban legend, and not true.[2]
History[edit]
Advertising photo for Lucky Strike by Nickolas Muray, 1936
The brand was first introduced by R.A. Patterson of Richmond, Virginia, in 1871 as cut-plug chewing tobacco and later a cigarette. In 1905, the company was acquired by the American Tobacco Company (ATC).
The "It's Toasted" ad as explained, from 1917
In 1917, the brand started using the slogan, "It's Toasted", to inform consumers about the manufacturing method in which the tobacco is toasted rather than sun-dried, a process touted as making the cigarettes taste delicious.
In the late 1920s, the brand was sold as a route to thinness for women, one typical ad said, "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet." Sales of Lucky Strikes increased by more than 300% during the first year of the advertising campaign. Sales went from 14 billion cigarettes in 1925 to 40 billion sold in 1930, making Lucky Strike the leading brand nationwide.[3]
Lucky Strike's association with radio music programs began during the 1920s on NBC. By 1928, the bandleader and vaudeville producer B. A. Rolfe was performing on radio and recording as "B.A. Rolfe and his Lucky Strike Orchestra" for Edison Records. In 1935, ATC began to sponsor Your Hit Parade, featuring North Carolina tobacco auctioneer Lee Aubrey "Speed" Riggs (later, another tobacco auctioneer from Lexington, Kentucky, F.E. Boone, was added). The weekly radio show's countdown catapulted the brand's success, remaining popular for 25 years. The shows capitalized on the tobacco auction theme and each ended with the signature phrase "Sold, American".[4]
The company's advertising campaigns generally featured a theme that stressed the quality of the tobacco purchased at auction for use in making Lucky Strike cigarettes and claimed that the higher quality tobacco resulted in a cigarette with better flavor. American engaged in a series of advertisements using Hollywood actors as endorsers of Lucky Strike, including testimonials from Douglas Fairbanks, concerning the cigarette's flavor, often described as delicious due to the tobacco being toasted.[4]
Lucky Strike was also a sponsor of comedian Jack Benny's radio and TV show, The Jack Benny Program, which was also introduced as The Lucky Strike Program.
Lucky Strike factories in Durham, NC
The brand's signature dark-green pack was changed to white in 1942. In a famous advertising campaign that used the slogan "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war", the company claimed the change was made because the copper used in the green color was needed for World War II.[5] American Tobacco actually used chromium to produce the green ink, and copper to produce the gold-colored trim. A limited supply of each was available, and substitute materials made the package look drab.[6]
The white package actually was introduced to modernize the label and to increase the appeal of the package among female smokers; market studies showed that the green package was not found attractive to women, who had become important consumers of tobacco products. The war effort became a convenient way to make the product more marketable while appearing patriotic at the same time.[6]
Famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy was challenged by company president George Washington Hill to improve the existing green and red package, with a $50,000 bet at stake. Loewy changed the background from green to white, making it more attractive to women, as well as cutting printing costs by eliminating the need for green dye. He also placed the Lucky Strike target logo on both sides of the package, a move that increased both visibility and sales. Hill paid off the bet.[7]
British Lucky Strike pack with a cigarette alongside a government health warning
The message "L.S./M.F.T." ("Lucky Strike means fine tobacco") was introduced on the package in 1945.
Lucky Strike was one of the brands included in the C-rations provided to US combat troops during the Second World War. Each C ration of the time included, among other items, nine cigarettes of varying brands because at the time, top military brass thought that tobacco was essential to the morale of soldiers fighting on the front lines. The other cigarette brands included in the C-rations were Camel, Chelsea, Chesterfield, Craven "A"-Brand, Old Gold, Philip Morris, Player's, Raleigh, and Wings. The practice of including cigarettes in field rations continued during the Korean and Vietnam wars, ending around 1975 or 1976 with the growing knowledge that smoking caused various kinds of health problems.[8]
Post World War II[edit]
Jenson Button driving for BAR at Indianapolis in the 2005 US Grand Prix. In response to restrictions on tobacco advertising in F1 the livery does not explicitly mention Lucky Strike
As a result of British American Tobacco (BAT) buying out American Tobacco Company in 1976, Lucky Strike came under control of BAT. The company acquired Formula 1's Tyrrell Racing team in 1997 and rebranded it as British American Racing the following year, sponsoring the team with its Lucky Strike and stablemate 555 brands. The team was bought outright by partners Honda by 2006, though Lucky Strike continued to sponsor the team until the end of that year.
In 1978 and 1994, export rights and U.S. rights were purchased by Brown & Williamson. In the 1960s, filtered styles were launched in addition to a mentholated version called "Lucky Strike Green". This time "Green" was referring to menthol and not to the overall package color. In late 2006, both the Full Flavored and Light filtered varieties of Lucky Strike cigarettes were discontinued in North America. However, Lucky Strike continued to have marketing and distribution support in territories controlled by BAT as a global drive brand. In addition, R. J. Reynolds continues to market the original, nonfilter Lucky Strikes in the United States. Lucky Strike currently has a small base of smokers.[9][10]
In 2007, a new packaging of Lucky Strikes was released, with a two-way opening which split seven cigarettes from the rest. In the same year, the company used the world's smallest man, He Pingping, in their ad campaigns.
In 2009, Lucky Strike Silver (the brand marketed as lighter) changed their UK packs from the quintessential red design to blue, albeit with a red teaser outer covering the packet.
In popular culture[edit]
The cigarette brand is referenced in many modern forms of media.
In art[edit]
American Colonial-Cubist artist Stuart Davis represented the brand in his 1921 painting, Lucky Strike. [11]
In music[edit]
Jazz saxophonist Lucky Thompson's 1964 album Lucky Strikes depicted the logo from the cigarette pack on its cover.
"Give It Back to the Indians" composed by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, from the 1939 musical Too Many Girls (later popularized by Ella Fitzgerald in 1956) contains the lyric "Two cents more to smoke a Lucky" [12]
Billy Joel's 1983 song "Keeping the Faith", from the album An Innocent Man, mentions the brand in the lyric: "I took a fresh pack of Luckies and a mint called Sen-Sen. My old man's Trojans and his Old Spice aftershave."[13]
Minneapolis Indie Rock band Howler based the artwork of their debut album America Give Up on a pack of Lucky Strikes.[14]
In The Ataris' song "All You Can Ever Learn is What You Already Know", an empty box of Lucky Strikes is referred to in the second verse.[15]
In Rodney Atkins' song "These Are My People", he mentions "Chokin' on the smoke from a Lucky Strike somebody lifted off his old man."[16]
In Jason Aldean's song "Back In This Cigarette", he mentions an ash tray being full of "Lucky Strikes" while inside of a hotel room.[17]
In ZZ Top's song "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide", they mention the passengers in their car are "smokin' Lucky Strikes" as they cruise the highway.[18]
In Dropkick Murphys's song "Sunday Hardcore Matinee", there is a line mentioning a "Pack of Luckies" among the possessions of those en route to the show.[19]
In Tom Waits's song "Kentucky Avenue", he mentions having "half a pack of Lucky Strikes" in the first verse.[20]
In Pistol Annies song "Takin' Pills", one of the women in the song is portrayed as smoking Lucky Strikes in the first verse with the line: "Although she ain’t gonna smile till she lights up her Lucky. No filter on her mouth or her cigarettes".[21]
In John Hiatt's song Trudy and Dave he sings "Well David put a match to a Lucky Strike And the smoke curled up 'round his head how he liked...". [22]
Merle Travis's 1947 song So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed borrows its eponymous line from a Lucky Strike advertising slogan.
In television[edit]
In the acclaimed AMC television series Mad Men, Lucky Strike is a major client for the fictional advertising agency Sterling Cooper. A fictitious plot is also presented for the birth of the legendary slogan "It's Toasted".[23] The main character, Don Draper, is often seen smoking Lucky Strikes.
"The Jack Benny Program" was sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes for most of the show's run.[citation needed]
In other uses[edit]
Former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms (R–North Carolina) handed out Lucky Strike cigarettes, which were his personal brand of choice, in his Senate office to meeting attendants until it became "utterly unfashionable".[24]

Cigarette camp[edit]
"Lucky Strike" was the name of one of a number of temporary U.S. Army "tent cities" known as Cigarette Camps situated around the French port of Le Havre following its capture in the wake of the Allied D-Day invasion in mid-1944.[25]
See also[edit]
Tobacco smoking
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Brandt, Allan (January 6, 2009). The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America. Avalon Publishing Group. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-7867-2190-0. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Marijuana in Lucky Strike". Snopes.com. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
Jump up ^ Columbia University National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (2006). Women Under the Influence. JHU Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8018-8227-2. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
^ Jump up to: a b Lum, K. L.; Polansky, J.R.; Jackler, R.K.; Glantz, S.A. (28 September 2008). "Signed, sealed and delivered: 'Big tobacco' in Hollywood, 1927-1951". Tobacco Control. 17 (5): 313–323. doi:10.1136/tc.2008.025445. PMC 2602591  . PMID 18818225.
Jump up ^ Heide, Robert; Gilman, John. Home Front America: Popular Culture of the World War II Era. pp. 128–129. ISBN 0-8118-0927-7. OCLC 31207708.
^ Jump up to: a b Mikkelson, Barbara (2015). "Lucky Strike Logo Color Change". Snopes.com. Retrieved August 28, 2015. [not in citation given]
Jump up ^ "Raymond Loewy: Biography". raymondloewy.com. 2015. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
Jump up ^ "U.S. Army Rations - C-rations". Usarmymodels.com. March 30, 1943. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Company - Brands - Brand Portfolio". R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. 2008. Archived from the original on August 22, 2008. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Our brands". British American Tobacco. 2015. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
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