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
FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived from Warner Bros. in February 2014, a co-production between Village Roadshow, Warner Animation Group, and Lord & Miller's own irreverent sensibility. Built almost entirely from licensed plastic bricks, it turned a toy tie-in into a genuine animation landmark, praised for its visual invention and its surprisingly sharp meditation on creativity versus conformity. Its box office success and critical reception helped establish Warner Animation Group as a serious studio player and set the stage for a franchise of spin-offs and sequels that followed in its wake.
This cell preserves Wyldstyle, also known as Lucy, the resourceful rebel who pulls Emmet into the Master Builders' world. As one of the film's defining figures, she draws collectors seeking pieces tied to the story's central pairing of ordinary hero and seasoned insurgent. A 35mm cell bearing her likeness represents a tangible fragment of the traditional animation-adjacent process used to visualize this frame, a physical artifact standing apart from the digital pipeline that built the feature itself.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm; the strip holds three frames, each with four perforations visible on the top edge; the bottom edge perforations are also present, confirming four-perforation-per-frame 35mm format.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even across all three frames; perforation corners are rounded and cleanly punched with no visible tearing.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical soundtrack track is visible along the bottom edge between the picture and the lower perforations, appearing as a dual bilateral variable-area pattern; Dolby Digital pixel blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the bottom edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read manufacturer text or key numbers.
Base & colour
The base appears with a slight cyan-blue tint consistent with modern polyester stock; the dye image shows rich, saturated colour with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are apparent on any of the three frames.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the animated character style is consistent with the CGI-animated film on record.
Era check
The combination of Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a variable-area optical track, on a cyan-tinted polyester base, is consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2010s era 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 000063955
Original Film CaptureAs received
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