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 Bros. in February 2014, a rare case of a toy-tie-in premise turning into a genuinely inventive piece of studio animation. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it paired brick-built spectacle with sharp, self-aware comedy and became both a box office success and a critical favorite, later spawning a franchise of spin-offs and sequels. Its willingness to satirize corporate franchise culture while embodying one made it a notable entry in the era's animated output.
This cell isolates the Shaquille O'Neal cameo, pairing the athlete himself with his Lego minifigure counterpart. Celebrity cameos were part of the film's playful blending of real-world figures into its brick universe, and O'Neal's appearance is one of the more offbeat, memorable inclusions collectors seek out. Having both the man and his miniature likeness together in one frame speaks to the film's dual-layered joke: a real NBA legend rendered as a toy inside a toy's world, a small but telling piece of the movie's larger stunt-casting fabric.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame visible on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced, cleanly punched with no torn or deformed holes visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, appearing as a dual bilateral variable-area track; Dolby Digital data blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, consistent with a SR-D composite track.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote any text or key numbers.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-teal tint consistent with modern safety polyester stock; dye image reads as neutral with no visible colour shift or fading.
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, and the LEGO-animated content is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The composite Dolby SR-D optical track format, polyester base stock, and colour dye image are all consistent with a theatrical release print from 2014.
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 000063939
Original Film CaptureAs received
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