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 from Warner Bros. in early 2014, a studio production built around a licensed toy brand that few expected to yield genuine wit and heart. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it became a critical and commercial success, praised for its meta humor, visual invention, and surprisingly earnest message about creativity within a mass-produced world. It helped prove that adaptations of toy properties could carry real narrative ambition, and it launched a franchise that extended the film's playful philosophy across sequels and spinoffs.
This cell holds Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for "the Special," whose accidental rise to heroism anchors the entire story. Collectors seek him out because he represents the film's central joke and its emotional core at once: an unremarkable figure elevated by belief and community. A single 35mm frame of Emmet, without further context, works almost like a trailer beat or opening credits glimpse, introducing the everyman before the chaos of the plot unfolds around him.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no visible tearing or distortion.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the bottom edge beside the picture area, appearing as a dual bilateral variable-area format; a blue-tinted Dolby Digital data block pattern is also visible between the bottom perforations, consistent with a combined optical and digital soundtrack strip.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote any text or key numbers.
Base & colour
The base shows a cyan-tinted clear stock; the dye image reads as a warm, saturated positive with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or significant scratches are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, and the animated LEGO-style imagery is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The combination of a cyan-base polyester safety stock, dual bilateral variable-area optical track, and Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks is consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print production era.
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 000063852
Original Film CaptureAs received
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