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 from Warner Bros. Animation in February 2014, a wide-release gamble built on a children's toy line that instead landed as one of the sharpest, most self-aware animated comedies of the decade. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it paired dense visual gags with genuine wit about creativity, conformity, and play, earning critical acclaim and a devoted adult following alongside its young audience. Its success reshaped how studios approached brand-based animation, proving that a film built around a toy could carry real ideas.
This 35mm cell preserves Vitruvius, the blind wizard who guides the story's hero and anchors the film's mythology of prophecy and imagination. Collectors seek him out because he represents the movie's connective tissue, the figure who bridges comedy and heart across the narrative. A single-character cell like this one offers a clean, focused artifact, isolating him from the ensemble chaos the film is known for and preserving a quieter piece of the production's physical history.
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 both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along the bottom edge, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone on the lower edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
The base shows a distinct cyan-teal tint consistent with a dye-based colour print stock; the dye image appears neutral with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the animated imagery is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The cyan-tinted base, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a variable-area optical track, and four-perforation 35mm format 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 000063944
Original Film CaptureAs received
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