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
FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived from Warner Bros. in February 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and reshaped expectations for what a toy-brand feature could be. Built entirely from digitally rendered Lego elements, it married sharp meta-humor with genuine sentiment about creativity and conformity, earning both box-office success and lasting critical goodwill. Its blend of pop culture parody and earnest storytelling made it a rare franchise launchpad that critics and family audiences embraced together, and it remains a touchstone for animation collectors tracking the modern era of brick-built cinema.
This cell centers on Wyldstyle, also known as Lucy, the resourceful Master Builder who pulls Emmet into the film's central adventure. She stands among the most sought-after figures from the production, prized for her dual identity and her role as reluctant mentor and rebel. A Wyldstyle or Lucy cell speaks to that duality, the cool exterior masking deeper conviction, a frame collectors chase for character-defining presence rather than spectacle. As a single-frame artifact, it preserves one instant from a film built on thousands of tiny constructed images.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame visible on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, consistent with a standard optical stereo or mono track; Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks are not clearly resolvable at this size.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
The base appears with a slight warm-neutral tint; the dye image shows saturated colour 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; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated character style is consistent with the computer-animated feature on record.
Era check
The optical soundtrack format, saturated colour dye image, and four-perforation 35mm layout are all consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2010s era of the film on record.
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 000063859
Original Film CaptureAs received
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