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
FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived from Warner Bros. in early 2014, a co-production between Village Roadshow and Animal Logic that turned a toy license into one of the sharpest animated comedies of its decade. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it became a box office success and a critical favorite, prized for its wit, its meta commentary on storytelling, and its surprising heart beneath the gags. It expanded the brand into a franchise while standing on its own as a genuine achievement in family filmmaking.
This 35mm cell gathers the film's central trio: Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for a chosen hero, Wyldstyle, the resourceful rebel who recruits him, also known as Lucy, and Vitruvius, the blind mystic who guides their journey. Collectors seek this grouping because it represents the story's foundation, the moment its core dynamic takes shape. Cells uniting these three speak directly to the film's structure and its found-family theme, making this piece a compact record of the movie's emotional engine.
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; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean throughout the strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along the bottom edge, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone on the same edge; a DTS timecode line also appears present as a thin continuous stripe beside the optical track.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
The base appears with a slight cyan-blue tint consistent with modern polyester stock; the dye image reads as neutral with no visible fading or colour shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are seen.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the LEGO character imagery is consistent with the animated feature on record.
Era check
The combination of polyester base, Dolby Digital data blocks between perforations, DTS timecode stripe, and variable-area optical track is consistent with a mid-2010s theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
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 000063897
Original Film CaptureAs received
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