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 from Warner Animation Group in early 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller after their success with Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street. Built almost entirely from Lego's own animation style, it became an unexpected critical and commercial hit, praised for its visual wit and for turning a toy tie-in into genuine cinema, with a script that balanced corporate satire against real sincerity. It helped prove that family animation could carry sharp humor for adults without losing its core audience, and it launched a franchise that expanded across sequels and spinoffs in the years after.
Vitruvius is the blind mystic Master Builder voiced by Morgan Freeman, the figure who sets Emmet's prophecy in motion and guides him toward becoming the Special. His temple marks the film's mythic register, the place where lore, prophecy and old-world Master Builder tradition are laid out before the story turns toward action and comedy. A cell tied to this setting draws collectors interested in the film's world-building side, the mentor figure, and the grounding mythology that gives the later chaos its shape and stakes.
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
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 the bottom edge, appearing as a dual bilateral waveform consistent with a stereo optical track; Dolby Digital pixel blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the lower edge
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text
Base & colour
Base appears with a warm amber-golden cast consistent with the dye image; no obvious fading or red shift detected
Projection history
No visible splices, cue marks, or significant scratching observed
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, consistent with an animated feature matching The Lego Movie (2014)
Era check
The combination of dual bilateral optical track and Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks is consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print era
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 000063872
Original Film CaptureAs received
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