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 Animation Group in February 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and reshaped expectations for what a toy-brand tie-in could be. Built almost entirely from digital renderings of actual Lego elements, the film paired sharp meta-humor with genuine visual invention, becoming a box-office and critical success that spawned a franchise. Its wit, self-awareness, and willingness to satirize corporate storytelling while still delivering one made it a touchstone of 2010s animation, frequently cited alongside the best studio work of its decade.
This cell brings together Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for a prophesied hero, Wyldstyle, the resistance fighter and love interest whose real name is Lucy, and Vitruvius, the blind wizard who guides Emmet's journey. Grouping these three signals a foundational moment in the story, the meeting of the everyman with his mentor and ally. Collectors prize this trio because it represents the film's central relationship, the engine of its plot and comedy alike, making a 35mm cell featuring all three a compact emblem of the movie's premise.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm colour 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 visible strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, appearing as a dual-band waveform strip.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-teal tint consistent with a colour print stock; dye image reads as neutral with no visible red shift or fading.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or prominent scratches are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot and the animated LEGO character imagery is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The dual variable-area optical soundtrack, colour positive print stock, and cyan-tinted base are all consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print 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 000063899
Original Film CaptureAs received
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