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 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and reset expectations for what a toy tie-in feature could be. Built from a script that turned corporate branding into genuine satire, it followed Emmet Brickowski, an ordinary construction worker mistaken for a prophesied hero. The film was a commercial and critical success, praised for its animation style mimicking stop motion with actual bricks, its meta humor, and its surprisingly sincere message about creativity and conformity. It expanded into a franchise and cemented Lego's presence in mainstream cinema history.
This cell preserves Emmet at the construction site, the setting that establishes him before the story upends his routine. As the everyman protagonist, Emmet is central to collectors seeking material from the film's opening stretch, the ordinary world before he becomes entangled in the Master Builders' conflict. A 35mm cell from this moment holds the character in his baseline state, workman rather than chosen one, offering a physical trace of the film's premise before transformation begins.
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 complete frames and one partial frame.
Perforations
Four per frame on each edge, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no visible tearing or distortion.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, consistent with a stereo optical print.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read manufacturer text or key numbers.
Base & colour
Base appears neutral to very slightly warm; dye image shows strong, saturated colour with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks, or prominent scratches are visible; the surface appears consistent with a projected release print.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three legible frames appear to run consecutively within a single shot, and the animated LEGO imagery is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
A 35mm colour positive with variable-area optical soundtrack is consistent with a standard theatrical release print of a 2014 animated feature distributed in that format.
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 000063869
Original Film CaptureAs received
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