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 Bros. in February 2014, a gamble on turning a toy line into a feature that few expected to succeed on wit alone. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it became a surprise critical and commercial hit, praised for its self-aware humor and stop motion style rendered through digital animation. It expanded the studio's animated slate and proved that a film built around a commercial product could still deliver genuine satire and heart, cementing its place as one of the more unexpected successes of that decade.
This cell preserves the opening credit sequence, the moment where the film's name is presented before the story begins. Such a frame carries no character or scene, only the film's identity as it announces itself to the audience. Collectors seek these pieces for their symbolic weight, marking the very first frames of celluloid that introduce a movie's world. As a piece of The LEGO Movie's original release print, it stands as a marker of beginnings, the threshold before Emmet, Wyldstyle, and the rest of the cast take their first steps into the story.
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 visible tearing or distortion.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along the bottom edge, appearing as a dual-band white waveform pattern on a blue-tinted strip, consistent with a stereo optical track; Dolby Digital pixel blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the lower edge.
Edge print
Upper edge reads, mirrored: '4K 38 2013 D'; no additional key numbers or SAFETY FILM text visible in this capture.
Base & colour
Base carries a cyan-teal tint on the upper strip and a gold-amber tint on the lower strip; the dye image in the picture area appears neutral with strong, saturated colour rendition.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to show the same title-card composition, consistent with a title sequence from The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a dual variable-area optical track is consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2010s, matching the 2014 release date of the film 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 000063929
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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