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 reset expectations for what a toy-licensed feature could be. Built almost entirely from Lego brick assets, it paired sly humor with genuine visual invention, becoming both a box office success and a critical favorite. Its willingness to satirize corporate franchise culture while operating inside one gave it lasting credibility, and it launched a franchise of its own, spawning sequels and spin-offs that never quite matched the original's wit.
This 35mm cell carries the name Wyldstyle, the alias of Lucy, one of the film's central figures and a key member of the Master Builders resisting Lord Business. Paired here with Emmet Brickowski, the accidental hero mistaken for "the Special," the frame reflects the partnership at the story's core. Collectors prize Wyldstyle material for her design, a rare female lead built with real agency in a toy-based property. Her dual identity, Wyldstyle and Lucy, marks a defining thread of the narrative, making this cell a meaningful artifact of the character's dual nature.
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; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean throughout the visible strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the bottom edge beside the perforations, appearing as a dual bilateral waveform pattern consistent with a stereo optical track; Dolby Digital pixel blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the bottom edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
The base appears with a cyan-tinted surround consistent with a colour print stock; the dye image reads as neutral with no visible red shift or fading.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are seen in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the animated brick-figure imagery is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of dual bilateral variable-area optical track and Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks is consistent with a theatrical release print from the 2010s, matching the 2014 release date of the film 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 000063964
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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