Finding Nemo (franchise) at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida. It is a musical adaption of the film with new songs written by Tony Award-winning Avenue Q composer Robert Lopez and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez. It would "combine puppets, dancers, acrobats and animated backdrops". In August 2016, Egmont Publishing launched a magazine, titled "Finding Dory". "Finding Nemo" is the soundtrack album of the film of the same name. The soundtrack was scored by Thomas Newman. The score was nominated for the 76th Academy Awards for Best Original Score but lost against "". It received 5/5 stars from the Film Score Reviews and 3.5/5
Finding Nemo was released on May 30, 2003; the film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and was nominated in three more categories, including Best Original Screenplay. "Finding Nemo" became the highest-grossing animated film at the time and was the second-highest-grossing film of 2003, earning a total of $871 million worldwide by the end of its initial theatrical run. The film is the best-selling DVD title of all time, with over 40 million copies sold , and was the highest-grossing G-rated film of all time before Pixar's own "Toy Story 3" overtook it. The film was re-released in 3D in