--- title: Oscars 2015 Nominations: Lego Movie Director Responds to Oscar Snub description: The Lego Movie was not nominated for Best Animated Feature. Here is the great way director Phil Lord responded on Twitter. canonical: https://time.com/3669065/oscars-2015-nominations-lego-movie/ author: Noah Rayman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-15T15:02:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:37.861Z og:title: See the Awesome Way 'The Lego Movie' Director Responded to the Oscar Snub og:description: The Lego Movie was not nominated for Best Animated Feature. 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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._  by [Noah Rayman](https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Jan 15, 2015 3:02 PM UTC  by [Noah Rayman](https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Jan 15, 2015 3:02 PM UTC > [](https://twitter.com/philiplord/status/555729488164569089) [Everything is awesome.](http://youtu.be/StTqXEQ2l-Y) _Read next:_ [_Oscars 2015: See the Full List of Nominees_](http://time.com/3668006/oscars-2015-nominations/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```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":"2026-08-04T07:48:37.861Z","description":"The Lego Movie was not nominated for Best Animated Feature. 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