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 arrived from Warner Animation Group in 2014, a surprise critical and commercial success that turned a toy line into a genuine piece of animated filmmaking. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it married stop motion aesthetics with CG animation and a script that balanced corporate satire with real warmth. The film's box office strength and cultural reach, from "Everything Is Awesome" to renewed interest in Lego as a medium for storytelling, cemented its place in modern animation history and led to a franchise of sequels and spinoffs.
This 35mm cell, marked Red LEGO Build, centers on the film's foundational visual idea: the humble red brick, the basic unit from which everything in this world is constructed. As a strip pulled from the movie's release print, it captures a piece of the actual theatrical presentation rather than a promotional reproduction. For collectors, such a cell speaks to the film's core metaphor, that construction, creativity, and individuality can begin with the simplest building block, making it a meaningful fragment for anyone assembling a physical record of the film's themes and legacy.
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 along one edge, with what appears to be a secondary digital data region consistent with a Dolby Digital or DTS timecode strip running between the perforations on the opposite edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read manufacturer codes or key numbers.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-teal tint consistent with modern safety stock; dye image shows strong, saturated colour with no visible fading.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks, or prominent scratches are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, and the animated brick-construction imagery is consistent with the animated feature on record.
Era check
The variable-area optical track, apparent digital soundtrack data, and saturated modern colour stock are all 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 000063905
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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