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, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and quickly became one of the most inventive animated features of its decade. Built almost entirely from Lego bricks and mixing traditional animation techniques with computer-generated imagery, the film balanced corporate satire with genuine warmth, earning both box office success and critical acclaim. Its blend of pop culture references, meta humor, and unexpected sincerity made it a defining animated release of the 2010s, one that spawned sequels and spinoffs while remaining a standalone achievement in family entertainment.
This cell preserves a frame of Vitruvius, the blind wizard voiced by Morgan Freeman who guides the story's mythology and its unlikely hero. As keeper of prophecy and mentor figure, Vitruvius anchors the film's larger themes of destiny and creativity, making him a natural draw for collectors assembling character-specific pieces from the production. A single 35mm frame like this one offers a tangible link to the physical film stock itself, a small remnant of the movie's theatrical run captured in celluloid form.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm colour positive release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm; the strip holds three frames, each with four perforations visible on the top edge and four on the bottom edge.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched holes appear cleanly formed with no torn or deformed edges visible.
Soundtrack
Not visible in this capture; the area beside the picture frames is obscured by the decorative border overlay on the scan.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight blue-teal tint consistent with a modern safety stock; dye image appears neutral with no visible fading or colour shift.
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks or cue marks are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, and the animated character imagery is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
A 35mm positive print with modern blue-tinted safety base and clean perforations is consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print era.
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 000063949
Original Film CaptureAs received
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