The National Film Registry on Wednesday announced the 25 films that will be preserved at the Library of Congress this year.
Making the cut this time around was Forrest Gump, the 1994 film starring Tom Hanks that won several Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best actor for Hanks.
It was the newest film to be included on the list, which is compiled annually by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.
There are now 575 films on the National Registry, which was created in 1989 as a way to preserve those motion pictures that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant.
The 25 films added in 2011:
●“Allures” (1961)
●“Bambi” (1942)
●“The Big Heat” (1953)
●“A Computer Animated Hand” (1972)
●“Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment” (1963)
●“The Cry of the Children” (1912)
●“A Cure for Pokeritis” (1912)
●“El Mariachi” (1992)
●“Faces” (1968)
●“Fake Fruit Factory” (1986)
●“Forrest Gump” (1994)
●“Growing Up Female” (1971)
●“Hester Street” (1975)
●“I, an Actress” (1977)
●“The Iron Horse” (1924)
●“The Kid” (1921)
●“The Lost Weekend” (1945)
●“The Negro Soldier” (1944)
●Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies (1930s-’40s)
●“Norma Rae” (1979)
●“Porgy and Bess” (1959)
●“The Silence of the Lambs” (1991)
●“Stand and Deliver” (1988)
●“Twentieth Century” (1934)
●“War of the Worlds” (1953)