The 76th Annual Academy Awards2004

Andrew Stanton:
"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.