

Nemo is placed in an aquarium in a dentist's office in Sydney, Australia. The scent sends one of the sharks into a feeding frenzy, but they flee after accidentally setting off a ring of old naval mines, which knock Marlin and Dory unconscious. Marlin discovers a diver's mask that fell from the boat he accidentally hits Dory with it, giving her a nosebleed. The two encounter three sharks who've sworn to abstain from eating fish. Marlin pursues the boat in vain and meets Dory, a blue tang who suffers from acute short-term memory loss, who offers her help. While Marlin is talking to Nemo's teacher, Nemo defiantly approaches a nearby speedboat, where he is captured by a pair of scuba divers. On Nemo's first day of school, Marlin embarrasses Nemo, and the two fight. Years later, Marlin is overprotective of Nemo. Only one damaged egg remains, which Marlin names Nemo. His wife, Coral, and most of their eggs are killed in a barracuda attack. Marlin is a clownfish who lives in an anemone in the Great Barrier Reef.

It was also nominated in three more categories, including Best Original Screenplay.

Released on May 30, 2003, Finding Nemo won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the first Pixar film to do so. Along the way, Marlin learns to take risks and comes to terms with Nemo taking care of himself. It tells the story of an overprotective clownfish named Marlin who, along with a regal blue tang named Dory, searches for his missing son Nemo. The film stars the voices of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, and Willem Dafoe. Directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton with co-direction by Lee Unkrich, the screenplay was written by Bob Peterson, David Reynolds, and Stanton from a story by Stanton. Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer-animated adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
