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
Released in 2014 by Warner Animation Group, The Lego Movie arrived as an unlikely triumph, turning a toy license into a sharp, self-aware comedy about creativity and conformity. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it earned acclaim for its visual invention, blending stop-motion aesthetics with CG animation to mimic the tactile charm of physical bricks. Its ensemble cast of pop culture and DC figures, rebuilt in Lego form, helped the film become both a box office hit and a genuine critical surprise, respected for balancing corporate ambition with real wit and heart.
This cell preserves a frame featuring Superman, rendered here as his Lego figure counterpart, one of the film's many licensed cameos that gave the movie its crossover appeal. Superman's presence reflects the film's playful use of DC's roster within Bricksburg's ensemble, a detail prized by collectors who track appearances of iconic heroes reimagined in miniature plastic form. As a single frame from the reel, it stands as a fragment of that larger assembly, a piece of the film's expansive, brick built universe.
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
Edge print
Not visible in this capture
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight warm-neutral tint; dye image shows saturated colour consistent with an intact chromogenic print
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 match the animated style of the film on record
Era check
A 35mm colour positive print with a variable-area optical soundtrack is consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print, as the format was still in wide distribution at that time
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 000063935
Original Film CaptureAs received
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