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
FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived from Warner Bros. in February 2014, a co-production between Animal Logic and Warner Animation Group directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Built entirely from a toy line, it became a genuine cultural surprise, praised for its wit, its meta-commentary on creativity and conformity, and its animation style that mimicked stop-motion within a fully digital pipeline. Its success reshaped how studios approached brand-driven family films, proving audiences would embrace a licensed property treated with sincerity and craft.
This cell preserves a Michelangelo cameo, placing the Renaissance master among the film's sprawling roster of pop culture and historical figures pulled into Emmet's world. Cameo appearances like this are prized by collectors precisely because they are fleeting, a single frame capturing a joke of scale and juxtaposition. Sharing space with a Hazmat Guy and a Crash Test Dummy, this moment reflects the film's signature technique: dropping recognizable minifigures into absurd company, reinforcing the anything-goes logic of the Lego universe.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame visible 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 sprocket holes visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, and a band consistent with Dolby Digital data blocks appears in the inter-perforation gaps on the opposite edge, alongside what appears to be a DTS timecode stripe.
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 a dye-transfer or modern print stock; colour dyes appear fully saturated with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are apparent in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated LEGO character content is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of a variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, and DTS timecode stripe 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 000063959
Original Film CaptureAs received
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