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 studio bet that a toy-brick feature could carry genuine wit rather than coast on nostalgia. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it became a surprise critical and commercial hit, praised for its animation style mimicking stop motion with actual bricks and for a script that balanced corporate satire with real heart. Its success helped launch a wider Lego cinematic universe and proved family animation could be sharply funny for adults too.
This cell preserves the card that opens the picture, the frame where studio and film name first appear on screen before story begins. Collectors seek title cards because they mark a fixed, singular point in a print's sequence, the threshold before character or plot enters the reel. As a piece of 35mm from this release, it stands for the moment audiences first understood they were watching something built, quite literally, brick by brick.
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, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along the lower edge, appearing as a dual bilateral waveform stripe; a separate cyan-coloured band consistent with a Dolby Digital data-block strip runs adjacent to it.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote any text or key numbers.
Base & colour
Base appears with a cyan-tinted surround consistent with a colour print stock; dye image reads as a positive with strong, neutral colour balance and no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks or cue marks are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive image; all three frames appear to be from the same title-card shot and match the title on record for The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of dual bilateral variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital data blocks between the perforations, and colour positive print stock is consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2010s.
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 000063927
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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