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 Bros. in February 2014, a surprise critical and commercial hit that turned a toy-line adaptation into sharp, self-aware satire about creativity and conformity. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it married stop-motion aesthetics with CGI polish and struck a chord well beyond its target demographic, spawning a franchise and cementing Emmet Brickowski as one of the decade's most recognizable animated everymen.
This cell centers on Emmet at a construction site, the setting that defines him before the story upends his ordinary life. As a construction worker, Emmet embodies the film's everyman premise, an ordinary minifigure mistaken for someone extraordinary. A construction site placement roots him in his default identity, the world he inhabits before becoming "the Special." Collectors prize Emmet material for his ubiquity as the franchise's central face and for the way early-film cells like this one anchor the character's origin point.
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, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no visible tearing or distortion.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, appearing as two bilateral variable-area lines; Dolby Digital pixel blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, indicating a Dolby Digital SR·D combined track.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote characters reliably.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-blue 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 colour image; the first two frames appear to be near-identical consecutive frames from a single shot, while the third frame shows a different angle, indicating a cut; imagery is consistent with an animated LEGO-style production matching the film on record.
Era check
The combined Dolby SR·D optical track format, polyester base with cyan tint, and positive colour print are all 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 000063878
Original Film CaptureAs received
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