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 theatrical bet that a film built from a toy line could still carry real wit and heart. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it became a box office success and a critical favorite, prized for its animation style mimicking stop motion with actual brick physics, its meta commentary on creativity versus conformity, and the breakout "Everything Is Awesome" earworm. It remains a touchstone for how IP driven family films can still surprise.
This cell brings together Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for a prophesied hero, alongside Wyldstyle, also known as Lucy, the resistance fighter who recruits him, and Vitruvius, the blind wizard who guides them both. Grouping these three signals a foundational stretch of the story, where destiny, doubt, and mentorship first intersect. Collectors seek this pairing because it represents the film's core trio before the wider Master Builder world expands around them, a compact record of the story's starting alliance.
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 one edge beside the picture area; no Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, DTS timecode line, or SDDS outer-edge tracks are discernible in this capture.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
Base appears neutral to very slightly warm; dye image shows strong, saturated colour with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks, or prominent scratches are visible; the image surface appears consistent with a projected release print.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be the same or near-identical consecutive frames from one shot, and the animated LEGO character content is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The variable-area optical soundtrack, saturated dye image, and neutral base are all consistent with a 35mm release print from the 2014 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 000063895
Original Film CaptureAs received
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