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 February 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and redefined what a toy tie-in feature could be. Built entirely from digitally rendered brick assets designed to mimic real stop motion, it married slapstick comedy with genuine formal invention, becoming both a box office success and a critical favorite. Its meta commentary on creativity, conformity, and play resonated with audiences well beyond the target demographic, cementing it as a defining animated film of the decade and spawning a franchise of sequels and spinoffs.
This cell centers on Wyldstyle, also known as Lucy, the sharp, independent Master Builder who pulls Emmet into the wider Lego universe. She remains one of the film's most sought after figures among collectors, prized for her dual identity as both rebel artist and reluctant mentor. A 35mm cell bearing her name preserves a fragment of that era of hand assembled animation reference, a physical artifact from the production pipeline rather than a mere promotional still, tying the character's dual naming directly to her arc of self discovery within the story.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm colour release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm; the strip holds three frames, each with four perforations visible on the upper edge and four on the lower edge.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched holes appear cleanly formed with no torn or deformed edges visible.
Soundtrack
Not visible in this capture; the area beside the picture frame is obscured by the decorative border overlay on both edges.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture; the decorative teal border overlay covers both edges where key numbers and safety text would appear.
Base & colour
The base shows a cyan-teal tint consistent with a colour print stock; the dye image appears warm and saturated with no visible fading.
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated character style is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The colour positive print stock and perforation layout are consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print from the 2010s, matching the release period of the film on record.
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 000063875
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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