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 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who had already reshaped animated comedy with Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Built on stop motion aesthetics rendered in CG, the film became a box office surprise and a critical favorite, praised for its wit, its meta commentary on branded storytelling, and its surprisingly sincere message about creativity within structure. It also launched a franchise and cemented Lord and Miller as directors capable of turning corporate intellectual property into genuine cinema.
This cell centers on Vitruvius, the blind prophet voiced by Morgan Freeman, whose role as mentor and keeper of the Piece of Resistance mythology anchors the film's early world building. His temple is the seat of prophecy, the place where destiny, Master Builders, and the story's central quest are first established. Collectors seek Vitruvius material for his gravity within the ensemble and his connection to the film's larger themes of belief and instruction, qualities that make a frame tied to his temple a meaningful anchor point in any Lego Movie collection.
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 frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean with no visible tearing.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the lower edge between the picture and the lower perforation row, appearing as a dual bilateral variable-area track; Dolby Digital data blocks are also visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the lower edge, indicating a Dolby Digital / analogue hybrid soundtrack area.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote any text or key numbers.
Base & colour
The base carries a cyan-tinted safety stock tint; the dye image reads warm-amber with strong colour saturation and no visible fading.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or prominent scratches are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated imagery is consistent with a release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The cyan-tinted polyester safety base, dual bilateral variable-area optical track, and Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks are all consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2010s 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 000063873
Original Film CaptureAs received
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