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 reshaped what a toy-brand feature could be. Built entirely from digitally rendered Lego pieces made to look stop-motion, it paired sharp comic writing with genuine visual invention, becoming both a box-office success and a critical favorite. Its "everything is awesome" ethos and meta-narrative twist gave it lasting cultural presence well beyond typical animated tie-ins.
This cell holds Wyldstyle, the sharp, capable rebel who guides Emmet through the Master Builders' world and stands as one of the film's most collected figures, prized for her independence and design. As a solo character piece, it isolates her presence on film, the kind of frame collectors seek to represent her role in the story rather than a specific plot beat. It works as a clean single-character reference, a quiet marker of her place within the Lego Movie ensemble.
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; punched edges appear clean with no torn or deformed holes visible.
Soundtrack
A blue-tinted band runs along the lower edge between the picture and the lower perforation row, consistent in appearance with a Dolby Digital data-block strip; no variable-area optical track or DTS timecode line is clearly resolved at this capture resolution.
Edge print
Upper edge reads, mirrored: '1 65 KODAK 28 38 13 C' — consistent with a Kodak edge-key sequence and safety-film stock identification.
Base & colour
Base carries a teal-blue tint on both edge strips; the dye image within the frames reads warm-amber with strong colour saturation and no visible fading.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or prominent scratches are visible on the frames or edges in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated character visible is consistent with the CGI animated feature on record.
Era check
The Kodak safety stock, teal base tint, and Dolby Digital inter-perforation data band are all consistent with a 2014-era 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 000063862
Original Film CaptureAs received
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