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, an animated feature built around a licensed toy line that few expected to yield genuine cinematic wit. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it became a critical and commercial success, praised for its visual invention and self-aware humor about corporate mascots and chosen ones. The film's success proved that studio properties tied to merchandise could still produce something surprising, and it launched a franchise while cementing Lord and Miller's reputation for smuggling sharp ideas into broad entertainment.
This cell preserves Wildstyle in her hooded appearance, the sharp-tongued rebel who guides Emmet through the Master Builder underground and remains skeptical of prophecy until events force her hand. Collectors favor her because she anchors the film's central romance and its running joke about destiny versus competence. The hood marks her as concealed, cautious, operating outside the surveillance of the establishment she opposes. A 35mm cell from this stretch of footage represents a physical fragment of that identity, a single frame of a character built for disguise and independence.
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 torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
Not visible in this capture; the area beside the picture frames is obscured by the decorative border overlay.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture; the decorative border overlay covers both edges entirely.
Base & colour
Base appears neutral to slightly cool; dye image shows strong, saturated colour with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, consistent with an animated feature matching the film on record.
Era check
A saturated positive 35mm print with this dye profile is consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print, though soundtrack type cannot be confirmed due to the overlay.
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 000063889
Original Film CaptureAs received
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