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. Pictures in February 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and quickly proved that a film built around a beloved construction toy could carry real wit and heart. It became a box office success and a critical favorite, praised for its self aware humor, its animation style that mimicked stop motion, and its surprising sincerity beneath the jokes. The film helped cement Lego as a viable cinematic universe, spawning sequels and spin offs, and its blend of comedy and meta commentary on creativity and conformity gave it lasting cultural footing well beyond typical family fare.
This cell preserves a frame of Vitruvius, the blind wizard and mentor figure whose prophecy sets Emmet's journey in motion. Collectors seek him out for his role as guide and comic foil, a character who carries much of the film's mythology and its running gags about destiny and belief. A single character frame like this one, isolated from dialogue or action beats, functions almost like a character study reel, a quiet reference point for who Vitruvius is within the larger story, distinct from the busier ensemble cells that populate the rest of the film's 35mm run.
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, evenly spaced, cleanly punched with no torn or deformed holes visible.
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, consistent with a SR-D combined track.
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 fading or red shift.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or significant scratches are visible; the image surface appears consistent with a lightly projected print.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the animated imagery is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combined variable-area optical and Dolby Digital inter-perforation data track, polyester base, and colour dye image are all consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print.
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 000063933
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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