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
The Lego Movie arrived from Warner Animation Group in early 2014, a rare theatrical gamble on beloved plastic bricks reimagined through inventive stop motion style computer animation. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it surprised audiences with sharp humor, genuine heart, and a message about creativity that resonated well beyond children's entertainment. Its box office success and critical acclaim helped establish Lego as a viable cinematic franchise, spawning sequels and spin offs while proving that IP driven animation could carry real wit and warmth.
This cell brings together Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker thrust into an unlikely destiny, alongside Vitruvius, the blind wizard whose prophecy sets the entire story in motion. Wildstyle's presence in the naming ties this moment to the film's central trio, a pairing collectors prize for representing the story's foundational dynamic. Emmet remains one of the most recognizable everyman heroes in modern animation, and Vitruvius anchors the mythic, prophetic thread running through the narrative. A cell built around these figures captures an essential early relationship in the film's structure.
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 Dolby Digital data-block pattern is visible in the inter-perforation gaps on one edge, consistent with a theatrical release print carrying multiple format tracks.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote any text or key numbers.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight blue-teal tint typical of modern polyester stock; dye image reads as neutral with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or prominent scratches are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the animated brick-world imagery is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The polyester base tint, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, and positive colour print format are all consistent with a 2014 theatrical 35mm 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 000063902
Original Film CaptureAs received
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