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 Bros. and Village Roadshow, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, following their run of sharp genre parodies. Built around Lego's toy universe, it became a rare case of a brand tie-in earning genuine critical praise, prized for its meta humor, relentless visual invention, and surprising emotional turn in its final act. It also launched a franchise and cemented the directing team's reputation for elevating unlikely material into something thoughtful and funny at once.
This cell holds Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for the Special, whose accidental rise into a prophecy-driven adventure anchors the entire story. Collectors seek him out because he is the everyman lens through which the film's satire and heart both operate, the figure who turns a toy-aisle premise into a meditation on creativity and belonging. A single-character 35mm cell like this one serves as a compact artifact of that arc, isolating the protagonist without needing supporting cast or spectacle to justify his presence in a collection.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm; the strip holds three frames, each with four perforations visible on the top edge; the bottom edge perforation count is partially obscured by the soundtrack area but consistent with 35mm layout.
Perforations
Four per frame on the top edge; evenly spaced and cleanly punched with no torn or deformed holes visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the bottom edge beside the perforations, appearing as a dual bilateral waveform consistent with a stereo optical track; a blue-tinted stripe adjacent to it suggests a Dolby SR or similar encoded optical format.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
The base appears with a slight cyan-blue tint consistent with a dye-transfer or modern colour print stock; the dye image reads as warm and well-saturated with no visible fading.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or significant scratches are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, and the animated LEGO-style imagery is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The dual bilateral optical soundtrack, cyan-tinted base stock, and colour dye saturation 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 000063867
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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