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 in 2014 from Warner Animation Group, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and became an unexpected triumph of both craft and commerce. Built to look like actual brick construction brought to motion, it turned a toy tie-in premise into a sharp, self-aware comedy about creativity and conformity. Its box office success and critical reception helped establish Warner's animation division and proved that a film about a beloved building toy could carry genuine wit and heart. The movie's legacy includes a franchise of spinoffs and sequels, but this original remains the benchmark.
This cell holds Vitruvius, the blind wizard and prophecy-keeper who guides Emmet toward believing he is the Special. He is a favorite among collectors for his role as mentor and comic anchor, blending mysticism with deadpan humor throughout the story. A cell bearing only his name and nothing more suggests a single frame of film pulled directly from the print, a physical fragment of the character's screen presence rather than a scene description. For collectors, that connection to the celluloid itself is the appeal.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm Dolby Digital theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm; the strip holds three complete frames with four perforations per frame visible on both edges.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges look clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, consistent with an analogue stereo print; Dolby Digital pixel blocks appear present in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, suggesting a Dolby Digital SR print.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read manufacturer codes or key numbers.
Base & colour
The base shows a cyan-tinted clear stock; the dye image reads with strong, saturated colour and no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or prominent scratches are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated imagery is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The combination of a cyan-tinted polyester base, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a variable-area optical track, and saturated dye image is consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2010s.
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 000063914
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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