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 it changed expectations for what a toy tie in feature could be. Built almost entirely from digital recreations of physical brick animation, it married slapstick comedy with genuine craft, turning a marketing premise into a sharp, self aware meditation on creativity and conformity. Its success established Warner Animation as a serious studio player and proved that a film built on a beloved construction toy could carry real wit and heart alongside its merchandising appeal.
This cell centers on Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for a chosen hero, alongside Wyldstyle and Vitruvius, the figures who pull him into the Master Builders' world. An ascent for Emmet marks a pivotal turn in his journey, the moment he rises from anonymity toward the role he is meant to fill, tying directly to the film's themes of unlikely heroism. Collectors prize Emmet cells for this arc, and the pairing with Wyldstyle and Vitruvius situates the piece firmly within the mentorship and awakening passages of the story, prized as a keepsake of the character's turning point.
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; spacing appears even and the punched holes have clean, rounded corners throughout.
Soundtrack
A narrow variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area; Dolby Digital pixel blocks appear present in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at the resolution provided.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight blue-teal tint consistent with modern polyester stock; the dye image reads as neutral with no visible colour shift or fading.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are observed on the strip.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the animated visual content is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of polyester base, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a variable-area optical track, and the positive print format 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 000063915
Original Film CaptureAs received
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