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 in 2014 from Warner Animation Group, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and it became one of the studio's genuine surprises. Built almost entirely from a beloved toy line, the film balanced sly humor for adults with earnest spectacle for kids, and its success proved that a movie about a plastic construction system could carry real wit, style, and heart. It remains a touchstone for how licensed properties can still deliver something original.
This cell isolates one of the film's real-world cameo gags, pairing Shaquille O'Neal with his own LEGO minifigure counterpart. Cameos like this were part of the movie's larger joke about pop culture bleeding into the Lego universe, and collectors prize them because they mark a rare crossover between an athlete's actual likeness and his brick-built double. A cell like this captures that meeting point directly, without embellishment, offering a tangible frame of the joke rather than a description of it.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges, three frames visible on the strip.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced, cleanly punched with no visible torn or deformed holes.
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 are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read manufacturer codes or key numbers.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-blue tint consistent with modern polyester stock; dye image reads as neutral with no visible red shift or fading.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are apparent in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, and the animated LEGO imagery is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The combination of a Dolby Digital inter-perforation data track alongside a variable-area optical track is consistent with a theatrical release print from the mid-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 000063931
Original Film CaptureAs received
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