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 in 2014 from Warner Animation Group, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and reshaped expectations for what a toy tie-in feature could be. Built from Lego's sprawling licensed universe, it balanced brand spectacle with genuine wit, earning acclaim well beyond family audiences and cementing Lord and Miller's reputation as animation's sharpest satirists. Its success proved that a film built around a construction toy could carry real narrative ambition, and it left a lasting mark on studio animation's willingness to be self-aware.
This cell holds Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for the Special who anchors the entire story. Emmet is the everyman at the center of the film's joke about chosen ones, making him a natural focus for collectors drawn to origin points and character introductions. A 35mm cell bearing only Emmet speaks to his role as the audience's entry point, the figure through whom the wider Lego world is filtered before the ensemble expands around him.
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 each edge, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no visible tearing or distortion.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area; Dolby Digital data blocks appear present 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 read manufacturer codes or key numbers.
Base & colour
Base appears with a cyan-tinted surround strip; the dye image within the frames reads as neutral to slightly warm with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or prominent scratches are visible; the frames appear consistent with a projected release print showing no gross surface damage.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated brick-construction visual style is consistent with the CGI-animated feature on record.
Era check
The combination of a variable-area optical track with apparent Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks is consistent with a standard theatrical 35mm release print from 2014.
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 000063883
Original Film CaptureAs received
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