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. and Warner Animation Group released The Lego Movie in February 2014, a leap for a project built on a toy license that critics expected to be disposable. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it became a box office success and a critical favorite for its wit, its meta commentary on creativity versus conformity, and its embrace of stop motion aesthetics achieved through computer animation. It expanded Lego's presence in film and set the stage for a franchise of sequels and spinoffs, while proving that adaptations of familiar brands could carry genuine narrative ambition.
This cell brings together the three central figures of that story: Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for a chosen hero, Wyldstyle, the sharp and capable rebel who recruits him, and Vitruvius, the blind mentor who guides the prophecy driving the plot. Collectors prize this grouping because it captures the film's core trio in one shared frame, representing the partnership at the heart of the adventure. A cell like this functions as a keepsake of that central relationship, a physical trace of the story's foundational alliance.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm 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-track waveform
Edge print
Text reading 'Kodak' (partially legible, appearing mirrored) is visible along the edge; full key numbers are not clearly resolved at this capture resolution
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight blue-cyan tint consistent with modern safety stock; dye image reads warm and saturated with no visible fading or colour 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 Lego Movie (2014)
Era check
The variable-area optical track, Kodak-branded safety base with cyan tint, and positive colour print format are all consistent with a 2014-era theatrical 35mm 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 000063966
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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