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View Finding Nemo film page
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Spoiler-free premise

Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium.

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After Nemo is captured from the Great Barrier Reef and placed in a Sydney dentist's aquarium, his cautious father Marlin crosses the ocean to find him. The forgetful but fearless Dory becomes his unexpected traveling companion.

Why it belongs

In Finding Nemo, Pixar gives the ocean readable scale and species-specific movement while using Marlin and Dory's journey to examine fear and trust.

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Pixar gives the ocean readable depth, currents, scale, and species-specific movement, while the contrast between Marlin and Dory makes their rescue journey a rigorous study of fear, trust, memory, and parental release.

Major award record

Metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20
Academy Awards1 win2004 · official ceremony record ↗

Plus 1 additional win

No headline-category win to name

Totals include every recorded competitive win. Only Picture or top-film honors, Direction, Screenplay, and lead or supporting performances are named.

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Institutional reference ranks

Sight & Sound—IMDb Top 250160AFI 100—
Reference metadata only · not part of the 40/40/20 score

Great Cinema Master List scores

Greatness8.8
Engagement9.5
Ease9.6

English · G
Animated Feature
Mood: Imaginative & Accessible