Every year, the Library of Congress adds 25 new movies to the National Film Registry. It's a way to draw attention to the Library's efforts to
Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty ImagesAs it does every year, the Library of Congress has selected a collection of films to be preserved in the National Film Registry, and for 2021, Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, the Disney/Pixar film Wall-E, and the first of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring made the cut. Every film protected by the Library of Congress has been singled out, "for their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation's film heritage." Other films singled out this year include Richard Pryor's landmark 1979 stand-up special Richard Pryor: Live in Concert, the 1984 horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street, and 1997's Selena, starring Jennifer Lopez as the murdered Tejano singing sensation Selena Quintanilla. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced the new registrants, which vary from animated works to films that, "took on racially-motivated violence against people of