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
The Lego Movie premiered in 2014, a Warner Bros. animated release built around Lego's licensed universe. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it earned praise for wit that worked on adult and child viewers alike, and for animation that mimicked stop motion within a fully digital pipeline. The film's success expanded into sequels and spinoffs, cementing it as a modern animation touchstone rather than a simple toy tie in.
This cell brings together Emmet Brickowski, Wyldstyle, and Vitruvius, the trio at the center of the story's central quest. Emmet is the ordinary construction worker mistaken for the Special, Wyldstyle the skilled rebel who recruits him, and Vitruvius the blind prophet guiding their path. A grouping of these three points to a pivotal gathering moment, the kind studios favor for reels meant to represent the film's core relationships and momentum in a single frame sequence.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014)
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames
Perforations
Four per frame on each edge, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no visible tearing
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone on the same edge; a DTS timecode line also appears present as a thin stripe beside the optical track
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-blue tint consistent with modern polyester stock; dye image reads as neutral with no visible colour shift or fading
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks or cue marks seen
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the animated LEGO aesthetic is consistent with the film on record
Era check
The combination of polyester base, Dolby Digital data blocks between perforations, optical variable-area track, and DTS timecode stripe is consistent with a mid-2010s theatrical release print, matching the 2014 release date 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 000063904
Original Film CaptureAs received
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