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 studio bet that a toy tie-in could carry genuine wit and craft. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it became a box office success and a critical favorite, praised for balancing brick-built spectacle with real heart. Its blend of celebrity voice casting, meta humor, and handmade animation style made it a standout in an era crowded with franchise filmmaking, and it remains a benchmark for family films that respect adult audiences too.
This cell preserves a strip built around Vitruvius, the blind wizard-mentor whose prophecy sets the entire story in motion. He is a favorite among collectors for his role as the film's guiding voice, the one who names Emmet the Special and frames the whole quest in myth and humor at once. A cell bearing his name captures that foundational thread of the story, the moment where destiny and comedy intertwine. As a physical artifact, it stands as a small piece of the film's original theatrical print, a tactile link to its first run in cinemas.
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 each edge; spacing appears even and the punched holes appear cleanly cut with no visible tearing.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible on one edge, alongside what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone on the same edge; a DTS timecode line also appears present as a thin continuous stripe.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
The base appears with a blue-tinted safety stock tint; the dye image reads as warm and well-saturated with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are observed in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, consistent with an animated feature matching the film on record.
Era check
The combination of blue-base safety stock, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, DTS timecode stripe, and variable-area optical track is consistent with a theatrical release print from the mid-2010s, matching the 2014 release date on record.
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 000063946
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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