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
Warner Animation Group released The Lego Movie in February 2014, a co-production with Village Roadshow that turned a toy license into one of the most inventive studio animated features of its decade. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it paired brick-built spectacle with genuine wit, becoming a box office success and a critical favorite, later spawning sequels and spinoffs that never quite matched its original spark.
This 35mm cell draws together the ensemble at the heart of the picture: Chris Pratt as Emmet, the ordinary figure mistaken for a prophesied hero, Will Ferrell voicing the towering antagonist Lord/President Business, Elizabeth Banks as Wyldstyle, Will Arnett's scene-stealing Batman, Liam Neeson's Good Cop/Bad Cop, and Morgan Freeman as the sage Vitruvius. A cast credit or ensemble frame like this appeals to collectors precisely because it anchors so many voices in one physical strip, a compact record of the film's full comic register.
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 look clean throughout the visible length.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the lower edge beside the picture area, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone on the lower edge; a DTS timecode line also appears present as a thin continuous stripe.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-green tint typical of modern safety stock; the dye image reads as a strong black with vivid orange title text, showing no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen.
Picture
Positive image; all three frames appear to be consecutive title-card frames from the same sequence, showing cast billing text consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of a multi-format soundtrack cluster (variable-area optical, Dolby Digital data blocks, DTS timecode) on a cyan-base safety stock is 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 000063919
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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