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
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FILM NOTES
FILM NOTES
Released by Warner Bros. in 2014, The Lego Movie arrived as an unlikely triumph, a studio production built from a toy license that turned into one of the sharpest animated comedies of its decade. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it married stop-motion aesthetics with computer animation and a script that satirized corporate conformity while celebrating imagination. Its box office success and critical acclaim reshaped how studios approached brand-driven animation, proving that a film about building blocks could carry genuine wit, heart, and visual invention.
This cell brings together the trio at the center of the story's momentum: Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for a chosen hero, Wyldstyle, also known as Lucy, the resourceful rebel who recruits him, and Vitruvius, the blind prophet whose guidance sets the plot in motion. Collectors seek this pairing because it represents the film's core dynamic, the moment when three mismatched personalities become bound to one shared purpose. A cell holding all three suggests an early gathering point, the kind of frame studios use to introduce audiences to the central relationships that carry the entire narrative forward.
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 both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, 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 stripe along that edge.
Edge print
Upper edge reads (mirrored): '7383 BBC 1S1 1 DS M HOUR 38'; lower edge shows a textured gold strip with no legible alphanumeric text visible.
Base & colour
Base shows a cyan-tinted clear stock consistent with modern safety film; dye image appears neutral with no visible red shift or fading.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks or cue marks are seen in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be the same or near-identical shot, consistent with a release print of an animated feature matching the film on record.
Era check
The combination of cyan-base safety stock, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, DTS timecode stripe, and variable-area optical track is consistent with a mid-2010s theatrical release print, matching the 2014 release date 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 000063898
Original Film CaptureAs received
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