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 Animation Group in early 2014, a co-production with Village Roadshow that turned a toy line into one of the sharpest animated comedies of its decade. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it married stop-motion-style CG with genuine wit, satirizing corporate conformity while celebrating creativity. Its box office success and critical acclaim proved family animation could carry sly, adult-aware humor without losing its core audience, and it spawned a franchise that reshaped how studios approached brick-built storytelling.
This cell centers on Vitruvius, the blind mystic who guides Emmet toward believing he is the Special. As one of the film's key mentor figures, he carries prophecy, humor, and gravity in equal measure, making him a favorite among collectors drawn to the film's mythic underpinnings. A 35mm cell bearing his likeness preserves a fragment of that guiding presence, a physical trace of the character who sets the plot's larger machinery into motion. For enthusiasts of the film's world-building, this piece offers a tangible link to its foundational lore.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm colour 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
Not visible in this capture; the area beside the picture frames is obscured by the decorative film-strip overlay.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
Base appears neutral to very slightly warm; dye image shows strong, saturated colour with no visible fading.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, consistent with an animated feature matching the film on record.
Era check
A saturated colour positive on what appears to be a neutral safety base is consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print era, though the soundtrack area cannot be confirmed.
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 000063945
Original Film CaptureAs received
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