It was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards.

The movie’s core message — “‘Ohana” means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten” — is earned not through grand battles, but through messy, small-scale moments: a broken vase, a burned dinner, a social worker’s clipboard, and a blue alien learning to say “sorry.” That tonal tightrope (sadness + slapstick + sci-fi + sincerity) makes it unique in Disney’s canon.

It was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards (lost to Spirited Away —a fair loss, given the competition).