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 February 2014, a co-production spanning Village Roadshow and Warner Bros. that upended expectations for a toy tie-in feature. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it paired dazzling stop-motion-style CG with genuine wit, becoming a box office success and a critical favorite that spawned a franchise. Its blend of meta-humor and heartfelt storytelling about creativity and conformity made it a defining animated film of the decade.
This cell places Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for "the Special," at Vitruvius's temple, the site where his journey as a would-be hero truly begins. Collectors prize Emmet as the everyman avatar of the film's message that anyone can build something extraordinary. A moment tied to Vitruvius carries weight as the narrative's turning point, where prophecy and destiny take root. As a single frame drawn from the reel itself, it preserves a tangible fragment of that pivotal setup.
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; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean throughout the strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, and a Dolby Digital data-block track appears in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, consistent with a dual-format optical release.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote any text or key numbers.
Base & colour
The base appears with a slight blue-cyan tint; the dye image reads as warm and saturated with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
Light vertical lines consistent with projection are visible across the frame area; no splices or cue marks are seen.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated visual style is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a variable-area optical track is consistent with a mid-2010s theatrical release print, 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 000063877
Original Film CaptureAs received
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