<P> 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 . </P> <P> The film is the best - selling DVD title of all time, with over 40 million copies sold as of 2006, 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 2012 . In 2008, the American Film Institute named it the 10th greatest animated film ever made as part of their 10 Top 10 lists . In a 2016 poll of international critics conducted by BBC, Finding Nemo was voted one of the 100 greatest motion pictures since 2000 . A sequel, Finding Dory, was released on June 17, 2016 in the United States . </P> <P> Two clownfish, Marlin and Coral, are admiring their new home in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and their clutch of hundreds of eggs, when a barracuda attacks . Marlin is knocked unconscious, and wakes up to find Coral and all but one of the eggs gone . He names this last egg Nemo, a name that Coral had chosen . </P> <P> On the first day of school, Marlin embarrasses Nemo during a field trip . While Marlin talks to the teacher, Mr. Ray, Nemo sneaks away from the reef toward a boat and is captured by a scuba diver . As the boat departs, one of the divers accidentally knocks his diving mask overboard . Marlin chases after the boat and meets Dory, a blue tang who suffers from short - term memory loss . The two encounter Bruce, Anchor, and Chum, three reformed sharks who have renounced eating other fish . While at their meeting, Marlin discovers the diver's mask and notices an address written on it . However, Dory and Marlin fight over the mask, giving Dory a bloody nose . The blood sends Bruce into a feeding frenzy, and he attacks Marlin and Dory, who narrowly escape . </P>

What kind of fish is at the beginning of finding nemo