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
Warner Bros. released The Lego Movie in February 2014, a Warner Animation Group production built from the licensed brick universe. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it arrived as an unlikely critical and commercial success, praised for wit, visual invention, and a script that balanced corporate satire with genuine warmth. The film's meta-narrative and quotable style ("everything is awesome") made it a defining animated release of the decade, expanding the franchise into features, sequels, and spinoffs.
This cell brings together the central trio of that story: Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for a chosen hero, Wyldstyle (also known as Lucy), the resourceful rebel who recruits him, and Vitruvius, the blind mystic who guides their quest. A three-character grouping like this represents the film's core dynamic in miniature, prized by collectors for capturing the leads together rather than in isolated single-character reels, a compact record of the ensemble driving the narrative forward.
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 torn or deformed holes.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone on the same edge, consistent with a dual-format optical track.
Edge print
Text reading 'Panavision' is visible along the upper edge of the frames; additional alphanumeric key numbers are present but not fully legible at this size.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-teal tint typical of modern polyester stock; dye image reads as neutral with no visible fading or colour shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks observed in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, and the animated character style is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of polyester base, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a variable-area optical track, and Panavision edge print is consistent with a 2014-era 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 000063965
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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