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
Released in 2014 by Warner Animation Group, The Lego Movie arrived as an unlikely triumph, a feature built from a toy license that turned into one of the sharpest animated comedies of its decade. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it paired brick-built visual invention with genuine wit, winning over critics and audiences who expected a simple merchandising tie-in and instead found a clever meditation on creativity and conformity. Its ensemble voice cast, including a memorably self-serious take on Batman, helped cement the film's crossover appeal and its lasting place among modern animated classics.
This cell preserves a frame of Batman, the film's vain, brooding caped crusader reimagined as a preening rock-song-obsessed sidekick to the story's true hero. Collectors seek out this character for his singular comic reinvention, a send-up of decades of Batman mythology folded into Lego form. Whether drawn from footage, trailer, or credits, a 35mm cell like this preserves a single physical instant from the film's original release print, a tactile artifact of the character's screen presence within this celebrated animated feature.
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 visible tearing or distortion.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, accompanied by what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone on the same edge; a DTS timecode line also appears present as a thin stripe beside the optical track.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
Base carries a cyan-tinted anti-halation backing; the dye image reads warm-yellow with strong saturation, consistent with an intact colour print.
Projection history
No visible splices; faint longitudinal lines are present across the frame area, consistent with a print that has passed through a projector gate.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated character and environment visible are consistent with the CGI animated feature on record.
Era check
The combination of a hybrid optical/Dolby Digital/DTS soundtrack configuration and cyan-backed polyester stock is consistent with a mid-2010s theatrical release print, matching the 2014 release date 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 000063864
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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