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 in 2014 from Warner Animation Group, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and reshaped expectations for what a toy-brand tie-in could be. Built on stop-motion-style CG animation and a script layered with satire and genuine warmth, it became both a box office success and a critical favorite, praised for turning corporate IP into a sincere meditation on creativity and conformity. Its cultural footprint extended well beyond children's entertainment, influencing animation style and franchise storytelling for years after.
This cell preserves Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker whose accidental rise to "Special" status drives the entire film. Emmet is the collector's entry point into the franchise, the everyman figure whose arc from instruction-following conformist to unlikely hero anchors the story's message. A 35mm cell bearing his name situates him as protagonist rather than background player, the kind of piece prized for representing the film's central figure at the heart of its narrative and marketing identity.
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, appearing cleanly punched with no visible torn or deformed holes.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone beside it, consistent with a dual-format optical track layout.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
The base appears with a slight warm-neutral tint; the dye image shows saturated colour with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks, or prominent scratches are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated LEGO-style imagery is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The combination of a Dolby Digital optical data track alongside a variable-area analogue optical track is standard for 35mm theatrical release prints from the 2010s, consistent with a 2014 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 000063937
Original Film CaptureAs received
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