Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
Direction
Stanton turned ocean lighting into pure visual poetry
Writing
Ellen improvised until she broke the script — thank god they kept it
Score
Thomas Newman made fear sound like wonder
Director
Andrew Stanton
Albert Brooks
Marlin (voice)
Ellen DeGeneres
Dory (voice)
Alexander Gould
Nemo (voice)
Willem Dafoe
Gill (voice)
Geoffrey Rush
Nigel (voice)
Brad Garrett
Bloat (voice)
Allison Janney
Peach (voice)
Austin Pendleton
Gurgle (voice)
Stephen Root
Bubbles (voice)
Vicki Lewis
Deb / Flo (voice)
Joe Ranft
Jacques (voice)
Andrew Stanton
Crush (voice)
Elizabeth Perkins
Coral (voice)
Nicholas Bird
Squirt (voice)
Bob Peterson
Mr. Ray / Additional Voices (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The entire crew got scuba certified and studied underwater cinematography — the 'dust' particles floating through scenes are called 'marine snow' and were obsessively animated by hand.
This film accidentally caused a clownfish population crisis — demand for 'Nemos' tanked wild populations until conservation groups begged Pixar to add 'leave fish in the ocean' messaging to home releases.
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