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
FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived from Warner Animation Group in February 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and reshaped expectations for what a toy-brand feature could be. Built entirely from stop-motion-style CG designed to mimic real Lego construction, it balanced corporate satire with genuine sentiment, becoming both a box-office success and a critical favorite. Its voice cast, humor, and "Everything Is Awesome" earworm cemented it as a defining animated release of the decade, one that treated its plastic universe with surprising philosophical weight while still delivering pure family entertainment.
This cell centers on Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for the prophesied Special, alongside Vitruvius, the blind wizard who guides him toward that destiny. Emmet remains the collector's touchstone for the film, the everyman elevated into hero. Naming this moment an ascent points to Emmet's rise into his role, a turning point tied directly to Vitruvius's mentorship. As a 35mm frame from this passage, it preserves a piece of the arc that gives the whole story its emotional and narrative lift.
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, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
Not visible in this capture; the area beside the picture frames is obscured by the heavy black border and no track detail can be resolved.
Edge print
Upper edge reads, mirrored: characters consistent with 'KODAK 5383 1 50' and partial numeric key codes; lower edge shows a gold-tinted strip with no legible text at this size.
Base & colour
Base carries a cyan-teal tint consistent with Eastman color print stock; dye image appears warm with strong color saturation and no visible fading.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or prominent scratches are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive color image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the animated imagery is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
Kodak 5383 Vision color print stock and the cyan base tint are consistent with a 2010s theatrical release print, matching the 2014 production date of the film on record.
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 000063916
Original Film CaptureAs received
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