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
Warner Bros. released The Lego Movie in February 2014, a co-production with Village Roadshow that turned a toy-brick premise into a genuine box office event and a critical favorite. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it married stop-motion aesthetics with full CG animation, delivered a self-aware philosophy about creativity versus conformity, and became one of the most quotable animated features of its decade. Its success reshaped how studios approached brand-driven animation for years afterward.
This cell brings together the three figures at the story's core: Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for a prophesied hero; Vitruvius, the blind mystic who guides him; and Wyldstyle, the resistance fighter who first doubts his worth. Collectors prize this grouping because it represents the film's central triangle, the meeting point where destiny, mentorship, and skepticism collide. A frame holding all three together captures the engine of the entire plot in a single arrangement.
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 with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge; a Dolby Digital data-block strip also appears present between the perforations on that same edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
The base appears neutral to very slightly warm; dye saturation looks full with no visible fading or colour shift.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or prominent scratches are visible on this strip.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, and the animated LEGO-style imagery is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The combination of a positive colour print, Dolby Digital data blocks alongside a variable-area optical track, and neutral polyester-base stock is consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print.
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 000063900
Original Film CaptureAs received
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