Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo
Directed by	Andrew Stanton
Screenplay by	Andrew Stanton Bob Peterson David Reynolds
Story by	Andrew Stanton
Produced by	Graham Walters
Starring	Alexander Gould Albert Brooks Ellen DeGeneres Barry Humphries Eric Bana Bruce Spence
Cinematography	Sharon Calahan Jeremy Lasky
Edited by	David Ian Salter
Music by	Thomas Newman
Production companies	Walt Disney Pictures Pixar Animation Studios
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Release dates	May 18, 2003 (2003-05-18) (Los Angeles) May 30, 2003 (2003-05-30) (United States)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$94 million[1]
Box office	$940.3 million[1]

Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer-animated comedy adventure movie written and directed by Andrew Stanton, released by Walt Disney Pictures and the fifth film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It tells the story of the over-protective clownfish named Marlin (Albert Brooks) who searches for his captured son Nemo (Alexander Gould), along with a regal blue tang named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) in Sydney Harbour. Along the way, Marlin learns to take risks and let Nemo take care of himself. It is Pixar's first film to be released in cinemas in the northern hemisphere summer. The film was re-released for the first time in 3D on September 14, 2012 and it was released on Blu-ray on December 4, 2012. A sequel, Finding Dory, was released on January 12, 2016.

The film received extremely positive reviews and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It was the second highest-grossing film of the year, earning a total of $921 million worldwide.^[1] Finding Nemo is also the best-selling DVD of all time, with over 40 million copies sold as of 2011,^[2] and was the highest money making G-rated film of all time before The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On the Run overtook it. It is also the 22nd highest money making film of all time, as well as the 3rd highest money making animated film. In 2008, the American Film Institute named it the tenth greatest animated film ever made during their Top 10.^[3]

The movie is dedicated to the memory of Glenn McQueen, who died in 2002, before the movie was released.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} "Finding Nemo (2003)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
2. ↑ Boone, Louis E.Contemporary Business 2011, Thomson South-Western, page 4 – ISBN 0-324-32089-2
3. ↑ Cite error: The named reference AFITop10 was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).