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 early 2014 as an animated feature that turned a toy line into a sharp, self-aware comedy about creativity and conformity. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it became a surprise critical and commercial hit, prized for blending stop-motion aesthetics with CGI polish and for its dense stream of pop culture cameos. Among its ensemble, one guest performer stood out enough to headline his own spinoff two years later.
This cell isolates that performer: Batman, voiced by Will Arnett, whose gravel-toned parody of the Dark Knight became one of the film's most quoted comic threads. Collectors seek this figure because he represents the movie's signature trick, folding a serious franchise icon into brick-built absurdity. A single frame built around him works as a character study piece, the kind of moment that anchors a reel to one instantly recognizable voice and silhouette within the larger ensemble story.
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
A variable-area optical track is visible along the lower edge, appearing as a dual bilateral waveform; Dolby Digital data blocks are also visible between the lower perforations, indicating a combined optical and digital soundtrack.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
Base appears with a cyan-teal tint consistent with a colour print stock; dye image shows warm amber and deep black tones with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks observed.
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
The combined Dolby Digital and variable-area optical soundtrack configuration is consistent with a theatrical release print from the mid-2010s, matching the 2014 release date of the film on record.
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 000063892
Original Film CaptureAs received
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