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 became an unexpected critical and commercial triumph. Built around Lego's vast toy license, the film balanced corporate satire with genuine warmth, turning a marketing property into a celebrated piece of animation history. Its blend of stop motion aesthetics rendered in CG, sharp humor, and a surprisingly touching finale earned it lasting affection well beyond typical franchise fare.
This cell captures Emmet Brickowski and Wyldstyle, the film's everyman construction worker and the resistance fighter who pulls him into a larger destiny, alongside Lord Business, the antagonist whose control obsession drives the plot. A falling moment between the two leads suggests a pivotal turn in their journey, the kind of shared peril that cements a partnership. Collectors seek these leads for their central role in the story's emotional core and their status as the faces of the franchise.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical 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 with no visible tearing.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible on the lower edge alongside what appears to be a Dolby Digital data block pattern in the inter-perforation gaps, consistent with a dual-format optical track layout.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
The base shows a warm amber-orange cast across all three frames; dye image appears intact with no visible fading.
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks or cue marks are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated character style is consistent with the CGI-animated film on record.
Era check
The combination of a variable-area optical track with apparent Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks is consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print from 2014, when that dual-format soundtrack configuration was standard.
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 000063952
Original Film CaptureAs received
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