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
Released by Warner Bros. in February 2014, The Lego Movie arrived as an unlikely triumph, a studio production built from a toy license that critics expected to be disposable and audiences embraced as genuinely inventive. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it became a box office phenomenon and a cultural touchstone, praised for its wit, its animation style, and its surprisingly sincere message about creativity and conformity. It remains a defining piece of 2010s family filmmaking.
This cell preserves Emmet Brickowski and Vitruvius together, pairing the film's ordinary construction worker hero with the blind wizard whose prophecy sets his journey in motion. Their scenes together carry the mentor and chosen one dynamic that drives the story's early momentum, making this pairing especially desirable to collectors tracing character introductions and thematic setup. As a 35mm frame from this pivotal relationship, it offers a tangible link to the film's foundational storytelling, the moment ordinary meets destiny.
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, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the bottom edge, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation gaps on the lower edge; a DTS timecode line also appears present as a thin stripe beside the optical track.
Edge print
Upper edge reads, mirrored: 'CB 358 F-050 K KODAK 398 5017 D'; lower edge perforations are gold-tinted stock edge.
Base & colour
Base shows a cyan-tinted safety stock; dye image appears warm and well-saturated with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the animated imagery is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
Kodak 5017 Vision3 500T stock, combined with Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks and a DTS timecode stripe, is consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2010s 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 000063901
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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