Animal Logic · Village Roadshow Pictures · The Lego Group · 101 min
Box office
$469.2M worldwide on a $60M budget
Honors
British Academy Film Awards — 1 winNational Board of Review — 1 winAnnie Awards — 1 nominationCritics' Choice Movie Award — 1 winAll 3 wins · 2 nominations on record
British Academy Film Awards: BAFTA's Children & Young People Award - Feature Film
National Board of Review: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Critics' Choice Movie Award: Best Animated Feature
Scholarship
Named in the title of 14 peer-reviewed works
Examples
The LEGO Movie — University of Texas Press eBooks, 2020
The Lego Movie, 2022
The LEGO Movie as Savvy Cinema — University of Texas Press eBooks, 2020
Sources: Wikidata · OpenAlex · Library of Congress. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived in 2014 from Warner Animation Group, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and quickly became a landmark in animated features. Built almost entirely from digitally rendered "brick" aesthetics that mimicked physical stop motion, it married sharp meta humor with genuine sincerity about creativity and conformity. Its box office success and critical acclaim helped launch a franchise and reshaped how studios approached toy-based storytelling, proving family animation could be both commercially massive and formally inventive.
This cell centers on Vitruvius, the blind mystic Master Builder who guides Emmet toward the prophecy of the Special. As a mentor figure voiced with dry wit, Vitruvius carries much of the film's philosophical undercurrent about destiny, doubt, and choice, making him a favorite among collectors drawn to the story's quieter, wiser presence. A single character reel like this one isolates him from the ensemble chaos, offering a frame built around his specific narrative weight. Such cells appeal to those assembling character-focused sets, valuing the individual thread he contributes to the larger mythology.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on each edge; spacing appears even and the punched corners are rounded and cleanly cut.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone beside it, consistent with a dual-format optical track layout.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
The base shows a cyan-tinted clear stock; the dye image reads as a warm, fully saturated colour positive with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or prominent scratches are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the animated content is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The cyan-base colour stock, variable-area optical track with Dolby Digital data blocks, and fully saturated dye image are all consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2010s.
Read from the original intake capture shown below. Observations only — film is authenticated, not graded.
This original motion picture film element has been examined and authenticated by Crown Grading in partnership with National Film Vault, and encapsulated for archival preservation.
Why so little survivesRelease prints were leased to theaters, not sold. When the run ended they went back to the distributor to be destroyed, and most were. What collectors hold today came from the prints that escaped that order, and no new 35mm prints of these films are being struck.
CROWN SERIAL 000063850
Original Film CaptureAs received
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