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Plot Marlin an Ocellaris clownfish takes extra care of his only child Nemo after his wife Coral and the rest of their eggs were eaten by a barracuda Due to a crack in Nemo s egg he has grown up with one small weak fin but which Marlin assures him is his lucky fin On the first day of school the other kids tease Nemo about his overprotective widower father Nemo decides to swim into the open waters to prove that he is capable but is quickly captured by a scuba diver who climbs aboard a boat and drives off Marlin is unable to keep up after a frantic chase but meets Dory a regal tang with short term memory loss Together they discover a diver s mask on the ocean floor dropped from the boat and Dory is able to read the address on it as being Sydney Australia The two set off Marlin s story of determination quickly spreads about the oceans and various sea creatures quickly give aid to his search Meanwhile the diver a dentist returns to his office and places Nemo in a fish tank Nemo meets the other fish led by the Moorish idol Gill When they realize that the dentist plans to give Nemo to his niece Darla who has had a fateful history of dealing with pets before they devise a plan to help free Nemo by forcing the tank to become dirty requiring the dentist to remove the fish and allowing for their escape The plan requires Nemo the smallest of them to swim up the water filter and disable it the first attempt is nearly fateful for Nemo but is able to succeed on a second attempt when he hears from Nigel a Brown Pelican that Marlin is coming for him However the plan backfires as the dentist installs an automatic tank cleaner the next day and Nemo becomes dejected After several adventures Marlin and Dory arrive in Sydney and are met by Nigel who takes them to the dentist s office but find the dentist is already getting ready to give Nemo to Darla Nemo acts dead as to force him to be flushed down the drain and eventually into the sea but this also causes Marlin to believe him to be dead After Nigel s presence in the office causes a small pandemonium Gill helps Nemo to escape down a drain Despite the fact that Dory claims to have better memory when around him Marlin tells Dory to leave him alone once they are back in the sea Dory swims off but encounters Nemo though temporarily confused due to her memories she eventually remembers Marlin s goal and helps Nemo back to his father The two along with Dory happily celebrate but their joy is quickly cut short when Dory is caught along with a school of grouper in a fishing net Despite Marlin s worries Nemo swims to help the fish including Dory escape using a trick taught to him by Gill and the other aquarium fish The three return back home with Marlin less protective of Nemo now aware of his son s abilities Nemo s stories of his adventures impress the other children while Marlin is seen as an outstanding father by the other fish Meanwhile Gill and the other fish from the dentist s office have managed to make their escape via their original plan ending up safely in the ocean but still in plastic bags Voice cast Albert Brooks as Marlin a clownfish Ellen DeGeneres as Dory a regal tang Alexander Gould as Nemo a juvenile clownfish Willem Dafoe as Gill a Moorish idol Brad Garrett as Bloat a puffer fish Allison Janney as Peach a starfish Austin Pendleton as Gurgle a royal gramma Stephen Root as Bubbles a yellow tang Vicki Lewis as Deb Flo a four striped damselfish Joe Ranft as Jacques a Pacific cleaner shrimp Geoffrey Rush as Nigel a pelican Andrew Stanton as Crush a sea turtle Elizabeth Perkins as Coral a clownfish Nicholas Bird as Squirt a juvenile sea turtle Bob Peterson as Mr Ray an eagle ray Barry Humphries as Bruce a great white shark Eric Bana as Anchor a hammerhead shark Bruce Spence as Chum a mako shark Jordy Ranft as Tad a butterflyfish Erica Beck as Pearl a flapjack octopus Erik Per Sullivan as Sheldon a seahorse John Ratzenberger as the school of moonfish Bill Hunter as Dr Philip Sherman Lulu Ebeling as Darla Sherman Production This section requires expansion In an interview with National Geographic magazine Andrew Stanton stated that the idea for the character of Nemo came from a photograph of two clownfish peeking out of an anemone It was so arresting I had no idea what kind of fish they were but I couldn t take my eyes off them And as an entertainer the fact that they were called clownfisht was perfect There s almost nothing more appealing than these little fish that want to play peekaboo with you Pre production of the film took place in early 1997 Film production began according to IMDb in January 2000 with a crew of 180 In an interview Megan Mullally revealed that she was originally doing a voice in the film According to Mullally the producers were quite disappointed to learn that the voice of her character Karen Walker on the television show Will Grace wasn t her natural speaking voice The producers hired her anyway and then strongly encouraged her to use her Karen Walker voice for the role When Mullally refused she was fired The movie was dedicated to Glenn McQueen a Pixar animator who died of melanoma in October 2002 seven months before the film was released Reception Finding Nemo set a record as the highest grossing opening weekend for an animated feature making 70 million surpassed a year later in 2004 by Shrek 2 It went on to gross more than 864 6 million worldwide in the process becoming Pixar s most commercially successful film to date It was the second highest grossing movie of 2003 behind The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King It is also highly critically acclaimed as it currently holds a 98 fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes an average of 89 on Metacritic and four stars from Empire The film s prominent use of clownfish prompted mass purchase of the animal as pets in the United States even though the movie portrayed the use of fish as pets negatively and that saltwater aquariums are notably tricky and expensive to maintain As of 2003 update in Vanuatu clownfish were being caught on a large scale for sale as pets motivated by the demand At the same time the film had a central theme that all drains lead back to the ocean Nemo escapes from the aquarium by going down a sink drain ending up in the sea Since water typically undergoes treatment before leading to the ocean the JWC Environmental company quipped that a more realistic title for the movie might be Grinding Nemo However in Sydney much of the sewer system does pass directly to outfall pipes deep offshore without a high level of treatment although pumping and some filtering occur Additionally according to the DVD there was a cut sequence with Nemo going through a treatment plant s mechanisms before ending up in the ocean pipes However in the final product logos for Sydney Water Treatment are featured prominently along the path to the ocean implying that Nemo did pass through some water treatment Tourism in Australia strongly increased during the summer and autumn of 2003 with many tourists wanting to swim off the coast of Eastern Australia to find Nemo citation needed The Australian Tourism Commission ATC launched several marketing campaigns in China and the USA in order to improve tourism in Australia many of them using Finding Nemo movie clips Queensland Australia also used Finding Nemo to draw tourists to promote its state for vacationers Awards Main article List of Pixar awards and nominations feature films Finding Nemo Finding Nemo won the Academy Award and Saturn Award for Best Animated Film It also won the award for best Animated Film at the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards the National Board of Review Awards the Online Film Critics Society Awards and the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards The film received many awards including Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards for Favorite Movie and Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie Ellen Degeneres Finding Nemo was also nominated for Two Chicago Film Critics Association Awards for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress Ellen DeGeneres A Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Two MTV Movie Awards In June 2008 the American Film Institute revealed its Ten top Ten the best ten films in ten classic American film genres after polling over 1 500 people from the creative community Finding Nemo was acknowledged as the 10th best film in the animation genre It was the most recently released film among all ten lists and one of only three movies made after the year 2000 the others being Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring and Shrek Music Main article Finding Nemo soundtrack Finding Nemo The Musical Larger than life puppets in a scene from the stage adaptation of Finding Nemo at Disney s Animal Kingdom Entrance The stage musical Tarzan Rocks occupied the Theater in the Wild at Disney s Animal Kingdom in Orlando Florida from 1999 to 2006 When in January 2006 it closed it was rumored that a musical adaptation of Finding Nemo would replace it This was confirmed in April 2006 when Disney announced that the adaptation with new songs written by Tony Award winning Avenue Q composer Robert Lopez and his wife Kristen Anderson Lopez would combine puppets dancers acrobats and animated backdrops and open in late 2006 Tony Award winning director Peter Brosius signed on to direct the show with Michael Curry who designed puppets for Disney s successful stage version of The Lion King serving as leading puppet and production designer Anderson Lopez said that the couple agreed to write the adaptation of one of their favorite movies of all time after considering The idea of people coming in to see the musical at 4 5 or 6 and saying I want to do that So we want to take it as seriously as we would a Broadway show To condense the feature length film to thirty minutes she said she and Lopez focused on a single theme from the movie the idea that The world s dangerous and beautiful The forty