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
Released in 2014 by Warner Animation Group, The Lego Movie arrived as a surprise critical and commercial success, blending stop-motion aesthetics with computer animation to celebrate the toy line's building philosophy while poking gentle fun at franchise culture and corporate control. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the film's blend of anarchic humor and genuine warmth made it a standout entry in modern animated cinema, spawning sequels and spinoffs while proving that a film built around a toy brand could carry real wit and heart. Its success reshaped how studios approached brand-driven animated features going forward.
This cell preserves the opening title card, the frame that announces the film before a single character speaks. For collectors, title card cells hold a particular appeal: they mark the threshold moment, the handoff from studio branding into story, and they carry none of the narrative baggage of a mid-film still. As the first physical artifact from a 35mm print of the film, this piece represents the picture's identity in its purest form, the name itself rendered on film stock, a keepsake of where The Lego Movie's theatrical journey formally begins.
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 appear clean throughout the strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the bottom edge beside the picture, appearing as two bilateral wavy lines consistent with a stereo variable-area format; Dolby Digital data blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the bottom edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-blue tint consistent with modern polyester stock; dye image appears neutral with no visible fading or colour shift.
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single title-card shot, and the logo visible matches the title on record.
Era check
The combination of polyester base, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a variable-area optical track is consistent with a theatrical release print from 2014.
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 000063921
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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