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
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FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived in early 2014 from Warner Animation Group, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and quickly became a surprise critical and commercial success. Built around Lego's brick universe, the film balanced corporate branding with genuine wit and heart, earning acclaim for its animation style and its send-up of chosen-one narratives. Its cultural footprint extended well past family audiences, spawning a franchise and cementing Lord and Miller as major creative forces in modern animated features.
This cell preserves a strip from the opening credits, the sequence that establishes tone before any character or plot takes hold. Opening credit footage is prized by collectors because it represents the studio's first handshake with the audience, the moment where typography, pacing, and music cues set expectations for everything that follows. For a film so reliant on introducing its own internal mythology, this stretch of celluloid carries the weight of first impression, a physical fragment of how Warner Animation chose to announce itself in 1935mm form.
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; spacing appears even and punches appear clean across all visible frames.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track (appearing as two bilateral tracks) runs along one edge, with a Dolby Digital data-block strip visible between the perforations on the same edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
Base appears with a cyan-teal tint consistent with modern polyester stock; dye image appears neutral with no visible fading or colour shift.
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive image; all three frames appear to be from the same title-card shot, showing the credit 'From the Directors of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,' consistent with the opening titles of The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of polyester base, bilateral variable-area optical track, and Dolby Digital data blocks between perforations is 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 000063973
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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