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 Animation Group in 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and quickly became a rare case of a toy-brand feature earning genuine critical respect. Built from a mix of stop-motion aesthetics and CG animation, it balanced corporate satire with real warmth, turning a marketing property into a beloved piece of original storytelling. Its success launched a franchise and proved that family animation could be both commercially massive and creatively sharp, a distinction few studio productions of its kind manage to hold onto for long.
This cell preserves a frame of Benny, the 1980-something space guy whose single-minded devotion to building spaceships made him a fan favorite among the film's ensemble. Collectors seek him out for his specific, era-coded design and his role as comic relief with real heart beneath the joke. A cell bearing just his name points to a moment built around his presence alone, a quiet piece of character-driven film history rather than an ensemble tableau, making it a focused artifact for anyone assembling a set around this particular voice in the story.
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.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area; Dolby Digital data blocks appear present in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge.
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 as neutral 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 from the same continuous shot and the animated LEGO aesthetic is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The combination of polyester base, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a variable-area optical track, and the positive print format is consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2010s.
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 000063961
Original Film CaptureAs received
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