High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nutcracker Fantasy is an animated film by Sanrio, very loosely based on Tchaikovsky`s ballet The Nutcracker and E.T.A. Hoffman`s story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. It was nominated for the 1980 Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film and the 1980 Young Artist Award for Best Motion Picture featuring youth. It won the 1980 Young Artist Award for Best Musical Entertainment.