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
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FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived from Warner Bros. in February 2014, a co-production spanning Village Roadshow and Animal Logic, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Built entirely from a toy line, it defied expectations by becoming a sharp, self-aware comedy about creativity and conformity, earning both box office success and lasting critical goodwill. Its blend of stop-motion aesthetics achieved through CGI made it a technical benchmark, and its cultural footprint spawned a franchise that still resonates with fans of animation and collectible cinema alike.
This 35mm cell captures Emmet Brickowski and Wyldstyle together in a falling moment, a pairing central to the film's emotional and comedic core. Emmet, the everyman construction worker mistaken for a prophesied hero, and Wyldstyle, the resourceful rebel who first pulls him into the story's chaos, anchor the narrative's central relationship. A falling sequence suggests movement through the film's imaginative universe, the kind of dynamic, high-stakes moment collectors prize for capturing two leads mid-adventure, a physical embodiment of the story's momentum and partnership.
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, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no torn or deformed holes visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible on one edge, accompanied by 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 alongside.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-blue tint consistent with modern polyester stock; dye image reads warm amber-orange with no visible fading or colour shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, consistent with an animated feature matching the film on record.
Era check
The combination of polyester base, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, DTS timecode stripe, and variable-area optical track is consistent with a mid-2010s theatrical release print, 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 000063953
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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