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 premiered in 2014 as a Warner Bros. production, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Built entirely from animated Lego bricks, it became a surprise critical and commercial success, praised for its wit, visual invention, and genuine heart beneath the comedy. The film's blend of pop culture satire and earnest storytelling helped it transcend its origins as a toy tie-in, earning it a lasting place among modern animated classics and spawning a franchise of sequels and spin-offs.
This cell preserves a frame of Vitruvius, the blind wizard and prophecy-keeper who guides Emmet toward his destiny as the Special. As one of the film's central mentor figures, Vitruvius carries much of its mythic weight, tying the Master Builders' world together with humor and gravity in equal measure. Collectors seek him out for that duality, since his presence anchors the film's larger narrative arc. A single 35mm frame like this one offers a tangible artifact from that thread of the story, a physical remnant of the film's celluloid history.
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
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the lower edge beside the picture area, appearing as two fine wavy white lines on a cyan/blue band, consistent with a stereo variable-area track; Dolby Digital data blocks are not clearly distinguishable in this capture; DTS timecode and SDDS tracks are not visible in this capture.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
The base shows a cyan-blue tint typical of a colour print stock; the dye image appears warm and saturated with no visible fading.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are seen.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated character style is consistent with the computer-animated feature on record.
Era check
The cyan-base colour print stock, stereo variable-area optical soundtrack, and KS-type perforations are all consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print from the 2010s era of the film 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 000063948
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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