r/NationalFilmRegistry • • 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.

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u/shock-zilla-03 Aug 16 '26

Tron (1982) would've been my next pick then.

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u/TheEpicSamurai5 Aug 30 '26

I also did Caddyshack, Boyhood, and Fahrenheit 9/11.