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 quickly became a surprise triumph of tone and craft. Built from a toy line long dismissed as merely commercial, it earned praise for wit, visual invention, and a script that balanced corporate satire with genuine warmth. Its success launched a franchise and proved animated family films could carry sharp humor for adults without losing children. The picture remains a touchstone of 2010s animation, often cited alongside Pixar's best for its blend of craft and heart.
This cell pairs the opening card with Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker whose accidental rise to "Master Builder" drives the entire story. As the film's everyman hero, Emmet anchors collector interest as the character audiences are meant to see themselves in before the plot's twists arrive. A title card paired with a lead character is a classic archival pairing, marking the film's identity and its central figure together in a single frame of celluloid history.
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 visible strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone on the same edge; a DTS timecode line also appears present as a thin continuous stripe beside the optical track.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote characters reliably.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-teal tint consistent with modern polyester stock; dye image reads as neutral with no visible colour shift or fading.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks or cue marks are seen on this strip.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames run consecutively as a single continuous shot, and the animated LEGO imagery and title treatment are consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The combination of polyester base, Dolby Digital data blocks between perforations, DTS timecode stripe, and variable-area optical track is consistent with a mid-2010s theatrical release print, matching the 2014 release date 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 000063923
Original Film CaptureAs received
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