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Miss Piggy | Sincere
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Best Music Original Song | 1980 | Paul Williams
Best Music Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score | 1980 | Paul Williams
Best Original Song Motion Picture | 1980 | Paul Williams
Best Music | 1980 | Paul Williams
Best Writing | 1980 | Jerry Juhl
Best Special Effects | 1980 | Robbie Knott
Best Dramatic Presentation | 1980 | Jerry Juhl
Budget 8,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 75,200,000 USD
Jim Henson was determined to use the larger budget of a feature film to push the technological limits and capabilities of puppetry. One of the most difficult feats (and one that appears deceptively easy on-screen) was making Kermit ride a bicycle.
Jim Henson spent an entire day in a 50-gallon steel drum submerged in a pond for the opening scene of Kermit the Frog in the swamp.
When Animal accidentally eats Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's Insta-Grow pills, he memorably balloons through the roof. Jim Henson refused to use a normal puppet on a miniature set to accomplish this effect, so his crew had to construct a gigantic Animal head that measured sixty feet.
The illusion of Fozzie driving the Studebaker was achieved by having a little person drive the car via remote control from the trunk, using a television monitor to guide his steering. The puppeteers would lie on the seat or floor and not see a thing. The first time they tested it, the television monitor went on the blink, and the driver had to be talked through the scene by an assistant director on a walkie-talkie ("A little to the right, now, to the left...hold it...").
Edgar Bergen died shortly after his scene was shot in 1978. It held particular meaning for Jim Henson, who cited, on many occasions, how Bergen and his wooden sidekick, Charlie McCarthy, influenced his interest in puppetry. The end credits include a dedication to Bergen.
"Fozzie: [walking into the church and seeing the Electric Mayhem] They don't look like Presbyterians to me."
"Fozzie: Ahh, a bear in his natural habitat - a Studebaker."
