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 Bros. in February 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and reframed the branded-toy picture as something sharper and stranger than expected. Built almost entirely from digital renderings of actual brick geometry, it became both a box office success and a critical favorite, prized for its visual invention and its sly commentary on conformity versus creativity. The film's late arrival in the era of computer animation helped set a new benchmark for how far the medium could stretch while still honoring its physical source material, and it remains a touchstone for animated features that followed.
This cell centers on Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for the Special, alongside Vitruvius, the blind mystic who guides him toward that destiny. The phrase Ascends points to Emmet's rise from anonymous everyman to the film's central hero, a turning point collectors seek out for its narrative weight. As a frame drawn from actual release stock, it preserves a fragment of that transformation, offering a physical tie to the moment the story pivots from ordinary to extraordinary.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm colour release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame visible on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean and well-defined.
Soundtrack
Not visible in this capture; the area beside the picture frames is obscured by the decorative film-strip overlay.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
Base appears with a neutral-to-slightly-warm tint; the dye image shows saturated colour with no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are apparent in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the animated imagery is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
A 35mm colour positive release print with this perforation layout is consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print, as 35mm distribution was still active for that title.
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 000063917
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
Tap to enlarge
