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 rare case of a toy-tie-in animated feature earning genuine critical acclaim alongside box office success. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it turned a licensed property into a sly meditation on conformity, creativity, and corporate storytelling, all while remaining a fast, funny adventure. Its success reshaped how studios approached brand-based animation, proving that a film built around a construction toy could carry real wit and heart, and it launched a franchise that expanded across spin-offs and sequels.
This 35mm cell preserves Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker whose accidental rise to "Special" status drives the entire film. Emmet is the everyman entry point for audiences, an unremarkable figure mistaken for a prophesied hero, and his presence anchors the movie's themes of individuality within mass-produced sameness. Collectors seek Emmet cells because he represents the film's central joke and its emotional core simultaneously. A single-character cell like this one functions almost like a character introduction frame, isolating the protagonist away from the sprawling ensemble he eventually gathers 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 and 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, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone 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 appears with a slight cyan-teal tint consistent with a modern colour print stock; dye image reads as neutral with no visible red shift or fading.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks or cue marks seen in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot and are consistent with an animated feature matching the film on record.
Era check
The combination of a variable-area optical track with apparent Dolby Digital data blocks and a cyan-tinted modern base stock is consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print.
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 000063857
Original Film CaptureAs received
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