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
Released by Warner Bros. in 2014, The Lego Movie arrived as an unlikely triumph, a studio production built around a beloved toy brand that turned out to be sharp, self-aware, and genuinely inventive. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it became a critical and commercial success, praised for its wit and its willingness to poke fun at franchise filmmaking while still delivering one. The film's blend of stop-motion styled animation, meta humor, and an all-star voice cast helped it stand apart from typical family fare of its era, and it remains a touchstone for how a licensed property can be transformed into something artistically ambitious.
This cell preserves a cameo appearance by Michelangelo, the Renaissance artist reimagined within the film's sprawling, anachronistic universe of historical and pop-culture figures. Cameos like this are prized by collectors precisely because they capture the movie's signature device: dropping recognizable names into unexpected company for a single beat of comic surprise. A cell of this kind, whether drawn from a trailer, a credits sequence, or a stray scene, functions as a memento of that gag, a small piece of the film's larger joke about history, culture, and Lego's boundless capacity to mash them together.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm colour theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014)
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges, three frames visible on the strip
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced, cleanly punched with no visible torn or deformed holes
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, appearing as a single bilateral track
Edge print
Not visible in this capture
Base & colour
Base appears neutral to very slightly warm; dye image shows strong, saturated colour with no visible fading
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks or cue marks are visible on the strip
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, consistent with an animated feature matching the film on record
Era check
A single variable-area optical track on a colour positive 35mm print is consistent with a standard theatrical release print of a 2014 animated feature
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 000063960
Original Film CaptureAs received
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