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
Warner Bros. released The Lego Movie in February 2014, a co-production between Village Roadshow and Warner Animation Group that turned a toy licensing property into one of the most inventive animated features of its decade. Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller built a world of stop-motion-style CG bricks that critics and audiences embraced for its wit and unexpected emotional depth, and the film's success launched a franchise while cementing its place as a genuine animation landmark of the 2010s.
This 35mm cell brings together Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for a prophesied hero, Wyldstyle, the sharp-tongued rebel also known as Lucy, and Vitruvius, the blind mystic who sets the plot's prophecy in motion. Grouping these three names together points to a foundational scene, the trio's early alignment that drives the story forward. For collectors, this pairing represents the film's core triangle, the moment ordinary and extraordinary characters are first bound to one shared purpose.
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; spacing appears even and punching appears clean throughout the visible strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data block pattern in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, consistent with a dual-format optical track.
Edge print
Text reading 'Ratatouille' is visible along the upper edge of the frames; additional edge codes are present but not fully legible at this size.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight cyan-blue tint typical of modern safety stock; dye image appears neutral with no visible fading or colour shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are observed on this strip.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot and depict animated characters consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The dual optical soundtrack format, cyan-tinted modern safety base, and Kodak-style stock 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 000063968
Original Film CaptureAs received
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