2. ‘The Lego Movie’ (2014)

Still a conundrum five years later: How does a movie that lets Gandalf, Wonder Woman, Lando Calrissian, Abraham Lincoln and Shaquille O’Neal share the big screen NOT get an Oscar nomination for best animated feature? The original “Lego” smash, which took Emmet from an anonymous worker bee to a guy who learns he’s meant for much bigger things, is a refreshing concoction of pop culture and childlike imagination that also succeeds as an irreverent sociopolitical satire of corporate greed and megalomaniacal businessmen.