--- description: The Lego Movie was not nominated for Best Animated Feature. Here is the great way director Phil Lord responded on Twitter. title: See the Awesome Way 'The Lego Movie' Director Responded to the Oscar Snub image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See the Awesome Way _The Lego Movie_’s Director Responded to the Oscar Snub  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 15, 2015 3:02 PM CUT  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 15, 2015 3:02 PM CUT > [](https://twitter.com/philiplord/status/555729488164569089) [Everything is awesome.](http://youtu.be/StTqXEQ2l-Y "undefined") _Read next:_ [_Oscars 2015: See the Full List of Nominees_](http://time.com/3668006/oscars-2015-nominations/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3669065/oscars-2015-nominations-lego-movie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3669065/oscars-2015-nominations-lego-movie/"},"headline":"See the Awesome Way The Lego Movie’s Director Responded to the Oscar Snub","datePublished":"2015-01-15T15:02:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:58.547Z","description":"The Lego Movie was not nominated for Best Animated Feature. Here's director Phil Lord's response on Twitter.","url":"https://time.com/3669065/oscars-2015-nominations-lego-movie/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Oscars","Academy Awards","The Lego Movie"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Rayman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3669065/oscars-2015-nominations-lego-movie/","name":"See the Awesome Way The Lego Movie’s Director Responded to the Oscar Snub"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"'The Lego Movie' Animators Show How the Film Was Made","description":"With an interesting mix of CG animation and actual LEGO sets, the final look of The LEGO Movie has a surprising touch of realness and appears almost as if someone had actually painstakingly animated each and every movement through stop-motion.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/3qWrWyhr/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-02-19T19:36:29.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/3qWrWyhr.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3669065/oscars-2015-nominations-lego-movie/","duration":"PT3M29S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3669065/oscars-2015-nominations-lego-movie/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```