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 Animation Group in February 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and quickly proved that a film built around a toy line could carry genuine wit, heart, and visual invention. It became a box office success and a critical favorite, praised for its meta humor and its send-up of chosen-one narratives, while spawning a franchise of sequels and spin-offs. For collectors of animated and family films from the 2010s, it stands as a defining piece of modern studio animation history.
This cell preserves an appearance by Michelangelo, part of the film's parade of cameo characters drawn from pop culture and history, a device that gave the story its layered, anything-goes universe. His inclusion reflects the movie's playful blending of real world figures into the Lego mythos, a hallmark that made the film distinct. For collectors, a cameo cell like this represents a single frame from that larger tapestry of guest appearances, a tangible artifact of the film's sprawling ensemble and its irreverent, everything-is-connected sense of humor.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on each edge, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no visible tearing or distortion.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, appearing as a two-track variable-area format; Dolby Digital pixel blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, indicating a hybrid optical/Dolby Digital soundtrack configuration.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read manufacturer codes or key numbers.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight warm-neutral tint consistent with a colour print stock; dye image shows saturated colour with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
Light vertical scratch lines are visible running through the frame area, consistent with projection wear.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the animated LEGO character content is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The hybrid variable-area optical plus Dolby Digital soundtrack configuration is consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print, as this combination was standard for wide-release 35mm prints of that period.
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 000063958
Original Film CaptureAs received
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