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 February 2014, a Warner Animation Group debut built on Lego's toy-and-media empire. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it earned praise for turning a corporate property into a genuinely inventive, self-aware comedy, becoming a box office hit and a rare case of a "toy movie" winning over critics and audiences alike.
This 35mm cell preserves Vitruvius, the blind wizard-mentor whose prophecy sets the entire story in motion. Voiced by Morgan Freeman in a knowing send-up of chosen-one narratives, he is a favorite among collectors for embodying the film's comic subversion of fantasy tropes while still delivering real warmth and guidance to Emmet. A single-character cell like this offers a clean, focused artifact from a film whose humor and heart rested heavily on this figure's presence.
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; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible on one edge, accompanied by what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip between the perforations on the same side, and a DTS timecode line is also discernible, indicating a multi-format optical soundtrack area.
Edge print
Upper edge reads, mirrored: KODAK 3A 5017-D
Base & colour
Base shows a cyan-tinted safety stock; the dye image appears well-saturated with no visible colour shift or 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 imagery is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
Kodak 5017-D is a Vision3 500T motion-picture negative stock designation; however, the cyan edge colour and positive image suggest this is a print stock, and multi-format optical soundtracks (Dolby Digital, DTS) are consistent with a mid-2010s 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 000063911
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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