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
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FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived from Warner Bros. in February 2014, a rare case of a toy-based film earning genuine critical acclaim alongside box office success. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it turned corporate branding into anarchic, self-aware comedy, celebrating imagination over instruction manuals. Its success reshaped how studios approached franchise animation, proving audiences would embrace clever, subversive storytelling even inside a marketing-friendly package.
This cell centers on Emmet Brickowski and Wyldstyle, the film's central pairing whose dynamic drives the entire story. Emmet, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for "The Special," and Lucy, the rebellious Master Builder who recruits him, represent the film's core tension between conformity and creativity. A 35mm cell bearing both names together holds particular value for collectors, marking the union of the story's two anchoring figures rather than a single character study, preserving a shared moment from a film built on unlikely partnership.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm colour positive 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, evenly spaced, cleanly punched with no torn or deformed holes visible.
Soundtrack
Not visible in this capture; the area beside the picture frame is obscured by the black rebate and the strip's edges are not fully exposed.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-blue tint consistent with modern safety stock; dye image reads as warm and saturated with no visible fading.
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the animated visual content is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
A cyan-tinted polyester safety base and saturated dye image are consistent with a 2014-era theatrical release print; no anomalies contradict that period.
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 000063925
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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