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
Released by Warner Bros. in February 2014, The Lego Movie arrived as an unlikely triumph, a big-budget adaptation of a toy line that turned out to be sharp, self-aware, and visually inventive. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it blended animation styles to mimic stop-motion within a CGI world, becoming both a critical darling and a box office hit. Its success reshaped how studios approached brand-based filmmaking, proving audiences would embrace irony and heart in equal measure from a film built on plastic bricks.
This cell marks the film's opening credit sequence, the moment before Emmet Brickowski and his world take shape on screen. Title card frames are prized by collectors for their graphic simplicity, often the first artifact confirming a print's origin and print run. As a threshold moment, it holds anticipation rather than narrative, a quiet marker before the story's momentum begins.
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 blue-tinted band runs along the bottom edge consistent with a Dolby Digital data-block strip between the perforations; a variable-area optical track region also appears present adjacent to the picture area
Edge print
Not visible in this capture
Base & colour
Base appears with a cyan-blue tint on the border strips; the image area shows a deep black background with saturated red and white dye, consistent with a colour print stock in good dye condition
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen in this capture
Picture
Positive colour image; three consecutive frames showing the same title-card composition, consistent with a title sequence from The Lego Movie (2014)
Era check
The Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks and the optical track alongside a 35mm positive print are consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2014 era of that format
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 000063881
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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