Unusually, the entire ensemble cast won a Golden Lion and was named Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival in 1983.
The movie's entire cast were male. The cast of director Robert Altman's previous picture, Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), were nearly all women.
The "Streamers" title is a slang / colloquial military term that refers to paratroopers whose parachutes fail to open.
This film was shot in sequence over the course of three weeks.