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 Animation Group in February 2014, a co-production with Village Roadshow that turned a toy license into one of the sharpest studio comedies of its decade. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it married stop-motion aesthetics with full CGI polish and a script that balanced corporate satire with genuine warmth. Its box office success and critical reception reshaped how studios approached brand-driven animation, proving audiences would embrace meta humor inside a film built from plastic bricks. It remains a touchstone for early 2010s American animation.
This cell carries Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for the "Special" who anchors the entire story. Collectors seek Emmet frames because he represents the everyman archetype at the heart of the film's central joke, a character defined by instructions and conformity before circumstance pulls him into something larger. As a 35mm cell, this piece preserves a physical frame of theatrical film stock, the same kind used for trailers, title cards, or studio credit sequences, offering a tangible link to projection history rather than a modern digital reproduction.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014)
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three complete 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 running along one edge beside the picture area, consistent with an analog stereo print; Dolby Digital data blocks appear present in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read manufacturer codes or key numbers
Base & colour
Base shows a cyan-teal tint typical of modern color print stock; dye image appears neutral with no visible red shift or fading
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or prominent scratches are visible; surface appears consistent with a lightly projected print
Picture
Positive color image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the animated LEGO character style is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014)
Era check
The combination of analog variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, and cyan-tinted color print stock is consistent with a 2014 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 000063865
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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