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 quickly became a landmark for computer animated features built to mimic stop motion charm. Its blend of corporate satire, meta commentary on franchise storytelling, and genuine warmth earned it critical acclaim and a devoted fan base, cementing its place as a modern animated classic and launching a franchise of spinoffs and sequels.
This cell preserves Emmet Brickowski, the unremarkable construction worker mistaken for the prophesied Special, whose accidental rise into heroism drives the entire film's plot and its message about creativity and individuality. Collectors seek out Emmet frames because he anchors the story's emotional core, an everyman figure surrounded by iconic characters yet defined by his own ordinary charm. As a single character cell from 35mm stock, this piece functions like a trailer or credits frame, isolating the protagonist from the wider ensemble for focused study and display.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean throughout the strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the bottom edge beside the perforations, appearing as two bilateral tracks with a Dolby Digital data-block strip also present between the picture and the optical track area.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
The base shows a cyan-tinted clear stock consistent with modern colour print film; the dye image appears neutral with no visible red shift or fading.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are seen in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the LEGO-animated imagery is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The cyan-base colour print stock, bilateral variable-area optical track, and Dolby Digital data blocks between the picture and perforations are all consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2010s.
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 000063938
Original Film CaptureAs received
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