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 early 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and quickly became a rare case of a toy-based feature earning genuine critical respect. Built on stop-motion-inflected CG animation designed to mimic real brick construction, the film balanced corporate satire with genuine warmth, turning a marketing property into a sharp, self-aware comedy about creativity versus conformity. Its success reshaped how studios approached brand-driven animation for the rest of the decade, and it remains a benchmark for that hybrid of commerce and craft.
This cell centers on Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for the Special, the film's unlikely everyman hero. His placement at a construction site ties him to his origin as a rule-following minifigure suddenly swept into a larger destiny, a foundational beat collectors prize for its connection to his character arc. As a 35mm cell drawn from that setting, it preserves a piece of the film's early world-building, the ordinary before the extraordinary, a touchstone for anyone tracing Emmet's transformation across the story.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014)
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges, three frames visible on the strip
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced, cleanly punched with no visible torn or deformed holes
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 appears with a slight cyan-teal tint typical of modern color print stock; dye image reads as a warm, saturated positive with no visible fading or red shift
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen
Picture
Positive color image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, and the animated CG imagery is consistent with a release print of The Lego Movie (2014)
Era check
The combination of analog variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, and cyan-tinted modern color print stock is consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print from the 2010s
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 000063868
Original Film CaptureAs received
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