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 February 2014, a computer-animated feature built around the world's most enduring construction toy. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it surprised audiences and critics alike by turning a licensed property into a genuinely inventive piece of filmmaking, layering slapstick comedy with a sincere argument about creativity versus conformity. Its box office success and cultural footprint, from "Everything Is Awesome" to the wider franchise it spawned, cemented its place as a defining animated release of the decade.
This cell centers on Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for the prophesied Special, whose everyman nature drives the film's comedy and heart. Collectors seek Emmet material because he anchors the entire narrative, embodying the instruction-following citizen who becomes an accidental hero. A 35mm cell bearing his name preserves a physical fragment of that arc, a tangible piece of the print that carried his story through theaters during the film's original theatrical run.
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 both edges, evenly spaced, cleanly punched with no visible torn or deformed holes
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, appearing as a dual bilateral variable-area format; Dolby Digital data blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text
Base & colour
Base shows a cyan-blue tint consistent with a colour print stock; dye image appears neutral with no visible red shift or fading
Projection history
Light vertical scratching is visible across the frame area, consistent with a print that has passed through a projector gate
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the animated LEGO character imagery is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014)
Era check
The combination of dual bilateral variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, cyan-tinted polyester base, and colour positive stock is 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 000063855
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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