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 Bros. in early 2014 as an unlikely triumph, a film built on a toy license that critics and audiences alike embraced for its wit, visual invention, and surprising heart. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it became a cultural touchstone, praised for turning a marketing premise into genuine cinema, and its success reshaped how studios approached animated franchise filmmaking for years afterward.
This cell carries Benny, the 1980-something space guy whose one-track devotion to spaceships makes him one of the film's most quoted supporting players. Collectors seek him out for that specific comic identity, a character built entirely around a single joke that lands every time it appears. A frame like this, drawn from 35mm printing stock, preserves a single fragment of the theatrical run, the kind of physical artifact that once passed through projector gates during actual public screenings before prints of this sort became scarce.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame 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 missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, appearing as a dual bilateral variable-area pattern; Dolby Digital data blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, indicating a hybrid optical/digital soundtrack.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read manufacturer codes or key numbers.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-blue tint consistent with modern polyester stock; dye image appears 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 character imagery is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The hybrid Dolby Digital plus variable-area optical soundtrack combination, polyester base with cyan tint, and positive print format are all consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print.
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 000063963
Original Film CaptureAs received
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