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
FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived from Warner Animation Group in February 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and quickly proved that a film built around a toy line could still carry real wit and craft. It became a box office success and a critical favorite, praised for its stop-motion-style animation rendered entirely in CGI and its sly commentary on creativity versus conformity. The film's ensemble of licensed characters, celebrity cameos, and brick-built spectacle helped it stand apart from typical studio animation, and it remains a touchstone for how a modern franchise film can be both a marketing vehicle and a genuinely inventive piece of storytelling.
This cell preserves the Shaquille O'Neal cameo, a moment prized by collectors precisely because it sits at the crossroads of basketball history and pop culture novelty. Shaq appears in Lego minifigure form, a small but memorable joke rooted in the film's habit of populating its universe with real-world figures alongside its core cast. For fans of both the sport and the movie, a frame like this represents the specific pleasure of spotting a genuine celebrity rendered in brick form, a detail that rewards close attention on repeat viewings and makes this cell a niche but appealing piece of film history.
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 both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, appearing as a two-track variable-area format; Dolby Digital data blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, indicating a hybrid SR·D optical track.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote characters reliably.
Base & colour
Base appears neutral to very slightly warm; dye image shows saturated colour with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the animated LEGO imagery is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The hybrid Dolby SR·D variable-area optical track with inter-perforation digital data blocks is consistent with a theatrical 35mm release print from the mid-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 000063932
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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