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
FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived in February 2014 from Warner Bros. and Warner Animation Group, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and became a surprise commercial and critical success that reinvigorated the idea of a toy brand as genuine cinematic material. Its blend of stop motion aesthetics achieved through CGI, meta commentary on corporate franchising, and genuine warmth toward its plastic ensemble made it a defining animated feature of its decade, one that spawned sequels and spinoffs while still standing as a clever, self aware original.
This cell centers on Batman, voiced by Will Arnett, whose gravelly, self absorbed take on the Dark Knight became one of the film's most quoted comic inventions. Collectors prize Batman material for the character's crossover appeal, bridging Lego fandom and superhero fandom in a single frame. As a strip pulled from the reel rather than a posed publicity still, it preserves an actual frame of animation, a small piece of the character's screen presence within the larger Lego Movie print, valuable for its direct connection to the finished film itself.
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; spacing appears even and the punched edges look clean throughout the strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge between the perforations and the picture area, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block column visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight warm-amber tint consistent with a colour print stock; dye image reads as warm with strong yellow-orange rendering.
Projection history
No visible splices or cue marks; faint longitudinal lines are present across the frames, consistent with a print that has passed through a projector gate.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated character and environment visible are consistent with the CGI animated feature The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of Dolby Digital data blocks alongside a variable-area optical track is standard for 35mm theatrical release prints from the mid-1990s onward and is fully consistent with a 2014 release print.
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 000063887
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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