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
Released in 2014 by Warner Animation Group and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, The Lego Movie arrived as an unlikely triumph, turning a toy-line premise into a sharp, self-aware comedy that won over critics and audiences alike. Built from stop-motion-style CGI meant to mimic real brick construction, it became a box office success and a cultural touchstone, later spawning a franchise of sequels and spin-offs. Its blend of genuine wit, visual invention, and heart set a new bar for family animation, proving that a film about plastic building blocks could carry real emotional and comedic weight without condescending to its audience.
This cell centers on Emmet Brickowski, the ordinary construction worker mistaken for the prophesied hero of the story, whose everyday nature is the film's central joke and its quiet strength. Paired here with the name Wildstyle, the cell points to the arrival of the film's sharpest, most independent figure into Emmet's world, a meeting that sets the plot's central relationship in motion. Collectors prize this pairing for marking the moment ordinary life collides with rebellion and purpose, a foundational beat for anyone tracing the film's story through physical film artifacts.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame visible on the top edge; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on the top edge; bottom edge perforations are also visible and appear evenly spaced and cleanly punched with no torn or missing holes observed.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the bottom edge beside the picture area, appearing as a dual bilateral waveform consistent with a stereo optical track; Dolby Digital data blocks appear present 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
Base appears with a slight cyan-teal tint consistent with modern polyester stock; dye image reads as neutral with strong saturated colour rendition and no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks observed on any of the three frames.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated CG imagery is consistent with a release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of polyester base, dual bilateral optical track, and Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks is consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print from the 2014 era.
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 000063970
Original Film CaptureAs received
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