The American Film Institute has announced its “Ten Most Outstanding Motion Pictures and Television Programs of the Year”. Their awards are “the only form of national recognition that honors the film and television creative ensemble as a whole – those people in front of and behind the camera-acknowledging the collaborative nature of film and television”. Finding Nemo was among this year’s film honorees. The rationale for the award according to the 13 member jury that made the selections was “Finding Nemo swam its way into America’s heart by combining a razor sharp script that harkens back to the comedy of Preston Sturges and a stunning animated world that entrances with each shift in the light. Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneris bring a funny, but always touching human element to the film that will make it an animation classic for generations to come”.