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
Released in 2014 by Warner Animation Group and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, The Lego Movie arrived as an unlikely triumph, a feature built from a toy line that turned into one of the sharpest, funniest animated films of the decade. Its blend of stop-motion aesthetics with CGI, rapid-fire humor, and genuine heart made it a critical and commercial success, spawning a franchise while standing on its own as a clever meditation on creativity and conformity.
This cell captures the opening title card, the very first frame sequence audiences encountered before the story of Emmet Brickowski and his unlikely journey began. Title cards from beloved films hold particular appeal for collectors, marking the threshold moment where anticipation meets the film proper. As the introductory marker for a movie that redefined expectations for adaptations, this piece represents the doorway into the Lego universe itself.
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, cleanly punched with no torn or deformed holes visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible below the picture area on the lower edge strip, alongside what appears to be a Dolby Digital data block region between the perforations on the lower edge; a DTS timecode line also appears present as a thin continuous stripe beside the optical track.
Edge print
Upper edge reads, reversed: '2983 C388 1508 05 D' followed by additional characters; lower edge strip shows a gold-tinted perforation band with no legible text visible.
Base & colour
Base appears neutral to very slightly cool; dye image renders strong reds, whites and deep blacks with no visible fading or colour shift.
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks or cue marks are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to show the same title-card composition, consistent with a title sequence hold or near-identical consecutive frames; the logo matches the known title treatment of the film on record.
Era check
The combination of a composite optical soundtrack (variable-area plus Dolby Digital data blocks and DTS timecode) on a neutral-base colour positive is consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2010s era of the film 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 000063903
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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