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 Animation Group in February 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and quickly became one of the studio's most acclaimed animated releases. Built around Lego's toy universe, the film balanced sharp comedy with genuine visual invention, earning praise for its wit and its surprising emotional depth. It proved that a movie built on a beloved construction toy could also work as satire on conformity and creativity, and it expanded the franchise into a long-running cinematic universe.
This 35mm cell isolates Batman, the film's scene-stealing take on the Dark Knight, reimagined here as a brooding, self-absorbed rock star of a hero. Collectors prize this character for his comic timing and his place in one of the era's most quotable ensemble casts. As a standalone frame, this piece works like a trailer or credits fragment, a single held image meant to represent the character's presence within the larger story, offering a physical artifact tied to a specific, easily recognized figure from the film.
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; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean throughout the visible strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the bottom edge, with what appears to be two Dolby-style bilateral variable-area tracks plus additional data stripes consistent with a Dolby Digital SR·D combined soundtrack area between the perforations and picture.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at readable resolution.
Base & colour
The base shows a cyan-tinted safety stock; the dye image presents warm amber-yellow tones with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated character and environment are consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combined optical soundtrack format, cyan-base safety stock, and positive colour print presentation are all consistent with a mid-2010s 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 000063860
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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