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. and Warner Animation Group in February 2014, a rare original property in a season crowded with sequels and franchise fare. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it became both a box office success and a critical favorite, praised for its wit, visual invention, and surprising emotional depth beneath the brick-built comedy. It helped establish Lego as a viable cinematic universe, spawning spinoffs and sequels, and remains a touchstone for how animation can satirize and celebrate its source material at once.
This cell isolates Wyldstyle, the sharp, independent master builder who pulls Emmet into the film's central adventure. Her hooded look ties to her guarded, rebellious identity within the story, a visual shorthand for the character's self-styled toughness. Collectors seek her out as one of the film's defining figures, second only to Emmet in recognition. A 35mm cell like this preserves a single frame from the movie's physical print history, a tangible artifact from an era when animation was still finished on film for archival and presentation purposes.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical colour release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame visible on the top edge; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on the top edge; bottom-edge perforations are also present and appear evenly spaced with cleanly punched rectangular rounded corners.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the bottom edge beside the perforations, appearing as a dual bilateral wavy pattern consistent with a stereo optical track; Dolby Digital pixel blocks are not clearly distinguishable at this capture resolution; DTS and SDDS tracks not visible in this capture.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
The base appears with a cyan-tinted surround consistent with a colour print stock; the dye image shows warm red and deep blue tones with no obvious fading or colour shift.
Projection history
No visible splices, cue marks, or heavy scratching are apparent; the image area appears clean.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, and the dark stylised subject with gold highlight is consistent with the animated visual style of the film on record.
Era check
The dual bilateral variable-area optical soundtrack, colour positive print stock with cyan base tint, and perforation style are all consistent with a 2014-era theatrical 35mm 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 000063888
Original Film CaptureAs received
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