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. Animation in February 2014, a studio bet on a toy-line adaptation that few expected to become one of the sharpest, most self-aware animated features of its decade. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it married dense visual gags with genuine sentiment about creativity and conformity, becoming both a box office success and a critical favorite, later spawning a franchise built on its wit and warmth.
This cell gathers the film's central trio: Emmet, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for a prophesied hero; Wyldstyle, the sharp, independent-minded rebel who recruits him; and Vitruvius, the blind wizard whose prophecy sets the plot in motion. Together they represent the story's core dynamic, the unlikely partnership between accident and destiny. For collectors, a shared appearance of all three signifies a foundational grouping, the kind of frame that anchors the film's mythology and its found-family arc in a single piece of reel.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm 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 each edge, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no torn or deformed holes visible.
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 stripe, 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 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 and the animated LEGO character imagery is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
A 35mm positive print with a variable-area optical soundtrack track is consistent with a standard theatrical release print of a 2014 animated feature, as digital cinema had not yet fully eliminated 35mm release prints at that date.
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 000063896
Original Film CaptureAs received
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