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 early 2014, a co-production with Village Roadshow and Animal Logic that turned a toy-brick premise into a genuine critical and commercial event. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it blended CG animation styled to mimic stop-motion plastic, sharp comic writing, and a knowing take on pop culture and corporate branding, all while functioning as a real story about creativity and conformity. Its box office success and the enduring "Everything Is Awesome" refrain cemented it as a defining animated feature of the decade.
This cell preserves the opening title card, the frame where the film formally announces itself before the story of Emmet Brickowski begins. For collectors, title card cells mark a picture's first handshake with its audience, the moment craft and branding meet on screen before character or plot enters. As the very first artifact of the reel, it stands apart from character or scene cells, valued for representing the film's identity itself rather than a single figure or gag, a clean entry point into any LEGO Movie collection.
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; punched edges appear clean with no visible tearing or distortion.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along the lower edge between the picture and the lower perforation row, appearing as a dual bilateral variable-area pattern; a cyan-coloured Dolby Digital data-block strip is also visible in the inter-perforation zone on the lower edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan tint consistent with a colour print stock; dye image reads as neutral 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 from the same title-card shot and match the title on record.
Era check
The combination of a dual bilateral variable-area optical track and Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks is consistent with a theatrical release print from the 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 000063934
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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