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 off the strength of their Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street work. It reframed the Lego brand as a genuine piece of animated cinema, mixing stop-motion aesthetics with CG execution and a script that balanced corporate satire with real sincerity. Its box office success and critical praise, plus the Everything Is Awesome soundtrack, made it one of the defining family films of the decade and launched a franchise that still carries weight with collectors and fans alike.
This cell holds Vitruvius, the blind wizard who guides Emmet toward the Special and speaks the prophecy that sets the whole plot moving. He is a favorite among Lego Movie collectors for his mix of gravity and comic timing, voiced with theatrical flourish by Morgan Freeman in a role that plays on the actor's own narrator reputation. A frame naming only him points to a scene built around his presence, likely early exposition or a quieter character beat, the kind of single-character strip prized by collectors for isolating a key performance within the film's 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, cleanly punched with no torn or deformed holes visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data block pattern in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge; a DTS timecode line also appears present as a thin dashed line along the lower edge strip.
Edge print
Not fully legible at this size; partial characters and numbers are visible along the lower edge but cannot be reliably quoted.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-teal tint consistent with modern colour print stock; dye image appears neutral with no visible red shift or fading.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks, or significant scratches are visible; the print shows no evidence of heavy projection wear.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, consistent with a release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, DTS timecode line, variable-area optical track, and cyan-base colour print stock is 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 000063863
Original Film CaptureAs received
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