This year, Pixar's "Wall-E", "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi", and "Selena" have been selected by the Librarian of Congress for preservation by the National Film Registry.
The list is made each year and is comprised of 25 films that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant. The total number of films in the registry is now 825.
Jacqueline Stewart, chief artistic and programming officer at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, said, "We have always looked at the range of films, those that are entertaining and inspiring, but also those films that raise more difficult kinds of questions, those that get us to recognize that films are documents of our social and political history and that their preservation is absolutely essential if we're going to look honestly at our past."
She added that these films can "help us to see just how powerful cinematic representations of these issues can be because films not only document social problems but they can be catalysts for change."
Below is the list of the National Film Registry for 2021.
1. Ringling Brothers Parade Film (1902)
2. Jubilo (1919)
3. The Flying Ace (1926)
4. Hellbound Train (1930)
5. Flowers and Trees (1932)
6. Strangers on a Train (1951)
7. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
8. Evergreen (1965)
9. Requiem-29 (1970)
10. The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
11. Pink Flamingos (1972)
12. Sounder (1972)
13. The Long Goodbye (1973)
14. Cooley High (1975)
15. Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)
16. Chicana (1979)
17. The Wobblies (1979)
18. Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
19. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
20. Stop Making Sense (1984)
21. Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987)
22. The Watermelon Woman (1996)
23. Selena (1997)
24. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
25. WALL-E (2008)
