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
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FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived from Warner Animation Group in 2014, a bet on beloved building bricks that few expected to land with critics and audiences alike. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it turned a toy line into a sharp, self-aware comedy about creativity versus conformity, earning box office success and a devoted following that pushed the studio toward a lasting franchise. Its wit and visual invention made it more than a marketing tie-in, securing its place as one of the more surprising animated achievements of its decade.
This cell preserves the opening credit, the moment before Emmet Brickowski and the rest of the story begin, where a film announces itself and sets expectation before a single scene unfolds. For collectors, an opening credit cell holds a particular value: it is the threshold of the picture, the frame that carries the studio's name and the promise of what follows rather than any single character beat. As a piece of 35mm history from this release, it stands as a marker of the film's theatrical run, a tangible fragment from the reel that introduced audiences to this world.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced, cleanly punched with no visible torn or ragged edges.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track runs along the bottom edge beside the perforations, appearing as a dual bilateral waveform; Dolby Digital data blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the bottom edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
Base appears clear with a slight cyan tint consistent with modern polyester stock; dye image reads as neutral with no visible colour shift or fading.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen.
Picture
Positive image; all three frames appear to be from the same title-card shot and match the title on record.
Era check
The combination of Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a dual bilateral variable-area optical track is consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2010s, matching the 2014 release date 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 000063876
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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