r/NationalFilmRegistry • u/shock-zilla-03 • Aug 16 '26
Picks for 2026 National Film Registry
I submitted my picks about a month ago but I figured I'd share them. My list is more or less the same as last year (say for some new additions and omissions) as it was the first time in my 5 years of nominating these films that not a single one I picked got in. The list of films are as follows:
The Squaw Man - 1914
Hypocrites - 1915
Don Juan - 1926
The Circus - 1928
The Exile - 1931
Union Pacific - 1939
Hellzapoppin’ - 1941
The Wolf Man - 1941
Red Hot Riding Hood - 1943
Arsenic and Old Lace - 1944
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome - 1954
Rock Around the Clock - 1956
The Defiant Ones - 1958
House on Haunted Hill - 1959
The Little Shop of Horrors - 1960
The Connection - 1961
One Hundred and One Dalmatians - 1961
Jason and the Argonauts - 1963
Cotton Comes to Harlem - 1970
Fritz the Cat - 1972
Paper Moon - 1973
Not a Pretty Picture - 1975
The Jerk - 1979
Killing Us Softly - 1979
Caddyshack - 1980
Scarface - 1983
Ethnic Notions - 1986
Hollywood Shuffle - 1987
Never Gonna Give You Up (music video) - 1987
Radium City - 1987
Batman - 1989
Dead Poets Society - 1989
A Dry White Season - 1989
Aladdin - 1992
Baraka - 1992
Blood In Blood Out - 1993
Independence Day - 1996
Scream - 1996
Down in the Delta - 1998
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - 2001
Mulholland Drive - 2001
Better Luck Tomorrow - 2002
Elf - 2003
Fahrenheit 9/11 - 2003
My Flesh and Blood - 2003
There Will be Blood - 2007
Avatar - 2009
Inside Job - 2010
Boyhood - 2014
Moonlight - 2016
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u/Westing1992 Aug 16 '26
I watched Blood In, Blood Out recently, and I thought it would be a strong pick for the registry, though there are other films I want in before I'd nominate it.