<P> Recipient of several accolades, Coco was chosen by the National Board of Review as the Best Animated Film of 2017 . The film won two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song ("Remember Me"). Additionally, it also won the Best Animated Film at the BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Critic's Choice Movie Awards, and Annie Awards . </P> <P> In Santa Cecilia, Mexico, Imelda Rivera was the wife of a musician, who left her and their 3 - year - old daughter Coco, to pursue a career in music . When he never returns, Imelda banishes music from her life and that of her family and opens a shoemaking family business . </P> <P> Ninety - six years later, her great - great - grandson, 12 - year - old Miguel, now lives with Coco and their family . He secretly dreams of becoming a musician like Ernesto de la Cruz, a popular actor and singer of Coco's generation . One day, Miguel inadvertently damages the picture frame holding a photo of Coco with her parents at the center of the family ofrenda and removes the photograph, discovering that his great - great - grandfather (whose face had been torn out) was holding Ernesto's famous guitar . </P> <P> Concluding that Ernesto is his great - great - grandfather, Miguel leaves to enter a talent show for the Day of the Dead despite the objections of his grandmother Elena . He enters Ernesto's mausoleum and takes his guitar to use in the show, but becomes invisible to everyone in the village plaza . However, he can interact with his Xoloitzcuintli dog Dante and his skeletal dead relatives who are visiting from the Land of the Dead for the holiday . Taking him there, they realize that Imelda cannot visit, as Miguel removed her photo from the ofrenda . Discovering that he is cursed for stealing from the dead, Miguel must return to the Land of the Living before sunrise or he will become one of the dead; to do so, he must receive a blessing from a member of his family using an Aztec marigold petal that can undo the curse placed upon him when he stole Ernesto's guitar . Imelda offers Miguel a blessing but on the condition that he abandon his musical pursuits when he returns to the Land of the Living; Miguel refuses and attempts to seek Ernesto's blessing . </P>

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