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 Animation Group in early 2014, a studio bet on a toy-brick property that few expected to become a genuine critical and commercial event. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it paired inventive stop-motion-style animation with a self-aware script that skewered franchise filmmaking while indulging in it wholeheartedly. Its ensemble voice cast and cross-brand cameos helped it become one of the most quotable and rewatched animated films of its decade, expanding Lego's presence in cinema well beyond a one-off release.
This cell holds Batman, the film's scene-stealing take on the Caped Crusader, rebuilt here as a brooding, self-important addition to the Master Builders. His presence in a single 35mm frame is a natural draw for collectors, since Batman's parody of superhero gravitas became one of the movie's most quoted throughlines. Whether drawn from trailer material or a segment cut for promotion, a piece like this represents the character's outsized comic role, a small but recognizable fragment of one of the film's most enduring inventions.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm Dolby Digital theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, 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.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, and a Dolby Digital data-block strip appears in the perforation-gap zone on the opposite edge, consistent with a dual-format optical release print.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote any text or key numbers.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-blue tint typical of modern safety stock; dye image reads as warm-neutral with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated character and environment are consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of Dolby Digital data blocks between perforations and a variable-area optical track alongside a cyan-base polyester stock is consistent with a mid-2010s theatrical 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 000063894
Original Film CaptureAs received
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