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
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FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived in 2014 from Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, fresh off their reinvention of 21 Jump Street. Built from a toy line few expected to yield a genuine feature, the film became a critical and commercial surprise, praised for its animation style blending stop motion aesthetics with CG, its meta humor, and its surprisingly resonant message about creativity within structure. It helped legitimize toy based cinema as a vehicle for genuine storytelling rather than pure merchandising, and remains a touchstone for modern animated comedy.
This cell holds Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for the Special, the film's everyman protagonist whose accidental heroism drives the entire plot. Collectors seek Emmet material because he anchors the film's identity, the blank slate figure who becomes extraordinary through belief and improvisation. A 35mm cell isolating him alone suggests a character study frame, the kind used in promotional materials or credits sequences to introduce or honor the lead before the ensemble arrives, a quiet marker of his centrality to the story.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm Dolby Digital theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three complete frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on each edge, evenly spaced; punched holes appear cleanly cut with no visible tearing.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, showing two bilateral variable-area waveforms; cyan-coloured Dolby Digital data blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, indicating a Dolby Digital SR·D composite track.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote characters reliably.
Base & colour
Base carries a distinct cyan-blue tint consistent with Kodak Vision colour print stock; dye image appears neutral with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are apparent in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the animated LEGO character and environment are consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The Dolby Digital SR·D optical composite track, cyan-base colour print stock, and four-perforation 35mm format 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 000063941
Original Film CaptureAs received
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