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 from Warner Animation Group in February 2014, a co-production with Village Roadshow that turned a licensed toy property into a genuine critical and commercial success. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it married Warner's marketing muscle with a sly, self-aware script that satirized corporate conformity while celebrating creativity. Its cultural reach extended well beyond children's entertainment, earning acclaim for its animation style and voice cast, and cementing Lego as a viable cinematic universe that would spawn sequels and spin-offs.
This cell preserves a strip built around Emmet Brickowski and Lucy, also known as Wyldstyle, the film's central pairing. Emmet, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for "the Special," and Lucy, the resistance fighter who recruits him, anchor the story's emotional and narrative arc together. Collectors seek reels featuring this duo because their dynamic drives the film's themes of self-belief and partnership. A 35mm cell from this pairing likely comes from a scene, trailer segment, or promotional strip highlighting their shared screen time, a piece of the physical film stock that carried their story to theaters.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on the visible top edge; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on the top edge, evenly spaced and cleanly punched; the bottom edge perforations are also visible and appear evenly spaced.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, appearing as a single-track waveform; Dolby Digital pixel blocks appear present in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-blue tint consistent with modern polyester stock; the dye image reads as warm-toned and fully saturated with no visible fading.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are seen on this strip.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the animated LEGO content is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The combination of a cyan-tinted polyester base, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a variable-area optical track, and fully saturated positive image is consistent with a 2014 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 000063924
Original Film CaptureAs received
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