To celebrate the upcoming Academy Awards on March 7 (and the five nominations for Up), I thought we would look back at past Pixar Oscar runs. It was the year 2003 and Finding Nemo had become the most successful animated film of all time. Here’s some gorgeous For Your Consideration Oscar Ads touting the film for Best Picture, Best Actor (Albert Brooks) and a host of actor/technical considerations. Finding Nemo was nominated for four Academy Awards (Best Animated Feature, Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing and Best Original Screenplay). It was the first Pixar film to win the Best Animated Feature award. Monsters, Inc. was previously nominated, but lost to Shrek.
Here’s a transcript of director Andrew Stanton’s acceptance speech:
“Finding Nemo” would have never been possible if it wasn’t for the extraordinary filmmaking environment created at Pixar Animation Studios by John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs. And I am going to be forever grateful to the entire cast and crew of “Nemo” for the giving of their incomparable talents to this little fish story that I had; in particular, my producer Graham Walters and my co-director Lee Unkrich, who should be up here with me right now accepting this. Thanks to Dick Cook and his incredible distribution team at Disney. Thanks to the Academy, to my loving parents, to my adoring children. And to my wife Julie, I wrote it to you in a note in eighth grade and now I can say it in front of a billion people–I love you.
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