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 reframed a toy line into a genuinely inventive piece of studio animation. It combined stop motion aesthetics with modern CG, wrapped around a story about creativity versus conformity, and it became a surprise critical and commercial hit, spawning a franchise. For collectors of animated film artifacts, it stands as a modern touchstone, the rare adaptation that transcended its commercial origins to earn lasting affection.
This cell centers on Lucy, known within the story's world as Wyldstyle, one of the film's central figures and a favorite among collectors for her role as guide and rebel within the Master Builders. Her dual identity, Lucy and Wyldstyle, speaks to the film's larger theme of hidden potential and self-invention. A cell bearing her name and likeness carries the character's core identity, the pairing of ordinary name and adopted persona that defines her arc throughout the picture.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm colour release print of The Lego Movie (2014)
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame visible on both edges; the strip holds three complete frames
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced, cleanly punched with no torn or deformed holes visible
Soundtrack
Not visible in this capture; the area beside the picture frames is obscured by the decorative card mount
Edge print
Not visible in this capture
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-teal tint consistent with modern polyester stock; dye image shows rich, saturated colour with no visible fading or red shift
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks, or cue marks visible in this capture
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, and the animated character style is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014)
Era check
The saturated dye image and apparent polyester base are consistent with a 2014-era release print; no soundtrack area is visible to confirm format further
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 000063858
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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