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 by Warner Bros. in February 2014, The Lego Movie arrived as an unlikely triumph, a studio production built from a toy line that critics expected to be a cynical exercise and instead found to be a sharp, inventive comedy. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it became a box office success and a critical favorite, prized for its animation style that mimicked stop motion, its voice cast, and its meta commentary on creativity and conformity. It remains a defining work of 2010s animated filmmaking and a touchstone for brand driven cinema done well.
This cell preserves a frame of Superman, voiced by Channing Tatum, one of the film's assembled Justice League cameos brought into the Master Builders' fold. Collectors seek this figure for the novelty of the casting and the character's brief but memorable presence among the ensemble. As a single 35mm frame, it stands as a physical artifact from the film's theatrical print, a tangible fragment of a movie built on plastic bricks and celluloid alike.
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 each edge, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, appearing as a dual bilateral variable-area pattern; a blue-tinted Dolby Digital data-block strip is also visible between the perforations on the same 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 cyan-blue tint consistent with a dye-transfer or modern colour print stock; dye image appears saturated with no visible fading.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks, or prominent scratches are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, and the animated LEGO character imagery is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The combination of a dual bilateral variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital data blocks between perforations, and cyan-tinted base stock is 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 000063936
Original Film CaptureAs received
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