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
Released in February 2014, The Lego Movie was a Warner Bros. production that turned a beloved toy brand into a genuine cinematic surprise. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it married inventive stop-motion-style animation with sharp comedy and heart, becoming both a box office hit and a critical favorite. Its success proved that a film built around a construction toy could carry real wit and emotional resonance, spawning a franchise and cementing the directors' reputations as bold voices in animated filmmaking.
This cell preserves the opening title card, the frame that announces the film's arrival before a single character speaks. Such cards are prized by collectors because they mark the threshold between anticipation and story, often carrying the clean typographic identity of the production itself. As the very first strip of celluloid a viewer would encounter, it holds a foundational place in the film's physical history, a tangible fragment of the moment audiences first read the name that would define a new animated era.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on each edge, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge; a DTS timecode line also appears present as a thin stripe beside the optical track.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read manufacturer codes or key numbers.
Base & colour
Base appears neutral to very slightly cool; dye image shows strong, saturated colour with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to show the same title-card moment, consistent with consecutive frames from a single shot; the title lettering matches The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of a variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, and a DTS timecode stripe is consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2010s, 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 000063926
Original Film CaptureAs received
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