- Was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1993
- Dustin Hoffman was Ridley Scott's original choice to play Deckard but the script rewites he insisted on made Scott re-evaluate his choice. Other actors considered for the role were Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Tommy Lee Jones and Christopher Walken
- The ending that features Deckard and Rachel driving in the countryside contains unused footage from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
- In the sequence where Deckard and Gaff approach police headquarters in a spinner, a model of the Millennium Falcon, disguised as a building, can be seen in the lower left corner of the frame. The model was a personal project of one of the film's model builders, and was used as a building at the last minute
- Blade Runner was given poor ratings by most critics in 1982, including Siskel & Ebert. In 1992, the two critics re-evaluated their attitudes toward the film and gave it two enthusiastic thumbs-up
- All the replicants are called by their names and the humans are called by their surnames. Rick Deckard is called by both his name and surname
- The question whether Deckard himself is a replicant or not has been a hot subject of discussion ever since the movie opened. Ridley Scott has said that he is, Harrison maintains he isn't; he's the human with whom the audience identifies. It can safely be argued that the story's moral and existential dilemmas come out much clearer if Deckard is a replicant, and this is the favored view in science fiction and art critic circles
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