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Motion Picture | 2020
1985
Best Special Effects | 1985 | Chris
Best Music | 1985 | Jerry
Best Director | 1985 | Joe
Best Horror Film | 1985
Best Supporting Actress | 1985 | Polly
Best Family Motion Picture Adventure | 1985
Best Archival Release of an Existing Score | 2012 | Michael
Best Young Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Musical Comedy Adventure or Drama | 1985 | Corey
Best Supporting Actor | 1985 | Dick
Best Performance by a Younger Actor | 1985 | Corey
Best Writing | 1985 | Chris
Best MakeUp | 1985
Budget 11,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 153,083,102 USD
The set for Kingston Falls is the same one used for Back to the Future (1985). Both movies were filmed on the Universal Studios backlot.
Originally, Stripe and Gizmo were the same character. This changed when executive producer Steven Spielberg insisted one of the Gremlins be a good guy with whom the audience could identify. Director Joe Dante expresses that this decision was the reason why the film is fondly remembered.
In Cantonese, "mogwai" means "devil," "demon," or "gremlin." The Mandarin pronunciation is "mogui."
One of the studio notes to director Joe Dante and executive producer Steven Spielberg on seeing the first cut was that there were too many gremlins. Spielberg suggested cutting them all out and calling the movie "People."
An earlier attempt to have monkeys play the gremlins was abandoned because the test monkey panicked when made to wear a gremlin head.
"Kate Beringer: Now I have another reason to hate Christmas. Billy Peltzer: What are you talking about? Kate Beringer: The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus."
"Chinese Boy: Look Mister, there are some rules that you've got to follow. Billy Peltzer: Yeah, what kind of rules? Chinese Boy: First of all, keep him out of the light, he hates bright light, especially sunlight, it'll kill him. Second, don't give him any water, not even to drink. But the most important rule, the rule you can never forget, no matter how much he cries, no matter how much he begs, never feed him after midnight."
