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 became an unexpected cultural event. Built from a toy line into a self-aware comedy about creativity and conformity, it won over critics and audiences alike, later spawning a franchise of spinoffs and sequels. Its animation style, mimicking stop motion within a fully computer generated world, was praised as a technical marvel, and the film's humor, heart, and meta commentary on corporate storytelling cemented it as one of the defining animated features of its decade.
This cell preserves Batman, voiced by Will Arnett, whose brooding parody of the Dark Knight became one of the film's most quoted creations. Collectors prize this character for his scene stealing arrogance, a send up of superhero self seriousness that resonated far beyond the Lego universe. As a piece of the movie's fabric, this frame stands for that comic tone, the vain, gravel voiced hero who mocks his own myth even as he plays it straight, a small artifact of the film's larger joke about identity and performance.
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 visible tearing or distortion.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the lower edge beside the picture, appearing as a dual bilateral variable-area pattern; Dolby Digital data blocks are also visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the lower 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 cyan-teal tint consistent with modern polyester stock; the dye image reads warm with strong amber and gold tones, no visible fading.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, consistent with a release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of polyester base, dual bilateral variable-area optical track, and Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks is consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print from the 2010s era.
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 000063891
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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