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 early 2014, a rare studio bet on a toy-line adaptation that turned into a genuine critical and box office success. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it married rapid-fire animation built to mimic real brick construction with a script that satirized corporate conformity while still delivering broad family entertainment. Its success reshaped how studios approached franchise animation for the rest of the decade, proving audiences would embrace meta humor inside a children's film.
This cell holds Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for the Special, the film's central figure and the one collectors most want to represent from this release. As the lead, Emmet anchors nearly every reel of significance, making any strip bearing his likeness a natural cornerstone for a Lego Movie collection. Whether drawn from a trailer run, a title card insert, or a credits sequence, a 35mm frame naming him alone speaks to the character study angle prized by collectors focused on protagonists rather than ensemble shots.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm Dolby SR·D composite 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, 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, consistent with an analogue stereo print; Dolby Digital pixel blocks appear present 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 read manufacturer codes or key numbers.
Base & colour
Base appears neutral to very slightly warm; 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; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the animated LEGO character content is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
A composite Dolby SR·D optical track on 35mm release print stock is entirely consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print of this title.
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 000063942
Original Film CaptureAs received
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