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 Bros. in early 2014, a gamble on turning a toy line into a feature that satirized corporate sameness while celebrating imagination. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it surprised audiences with its wit, visual density, and emotional turn late in the runtime, becoming a box office hit and a critical favorite that spawned a franchise. For animation collectors, it represents a rare case of a studio product achieving genuine cultural staying power, praised for its craftsmanship as much as its humor.
This cell centers on Red Lego Build, a piece tied to the film's ongoing gag of construction and reconstruction as a visual language. Red bricks recur throughout the story as raw material for improvisation, tying directly to the film's core theme that anyone can build anything from what is available. A 35mm frame preserving this motif appeals to collectors interested in the film's formal identity, its constructive imagery, and the physical print history of a movie defined by assembly itself.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm; the strip holds three frames, each with four perforations visible on the upper edge and four on the lower edge.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched holes appear cleanly formed with no visible torn or deformed edges.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track runs along the lower edge beside the perforations, appearing as a dual bilateral waveform consistent with a stereo optical track; Dolby Digital data blocks are not clearly distinguishable at this size, and no DTS timecode line or SDDS outer-edge tracks are visible in this capture.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
The base appears with a cyan-tinted surround consistent with a modern polyester safety base; the dye image shows strong red and blue saturation with no visible fading.
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 or near-identical composition, consistent with a single held shot; the brick-built characters and colour palette are consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The dual bilateral optical soundtrack, polyester base tint, and saturated dye image are all consistent with a 2014-era 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 000063906
Original Film CaptureAs received
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