The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's collection of films selected for preservation, each for its cultural, historical and aesthetic contributions since th
Academy Award–winning director John Ford has the most entries with 11 films.
Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock, responsible for inductees ranging from the 1940 Academy Award for Best Picture winner Rebecca to 1963's The Birds
Orson Welles, acclaimed filmmaker behind inductees Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Lady from Shanghai (1948) and Touch of Evil (1958)
Stanley Kubrick, master auteur responsible for inductees ranging from 1957's Paths of Glory to his 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 comedy-drama film written and directed by Wes Anderson. The film's seventeen-actor ensemble cast is led by Ralph Fiennes as Monsieur Gustave H., famed concierge of a
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…once (as they are in the Registry) by year of completion. The oldest film in the registry, Newark Athlete, was released in 1891, while the most recent, The Grand Budapest Hotel, was released in 2014. Released in 1895 and 1896, and selected in December 2024 and January 2026, Annabelle Serpentine Dance and The Tramp and the Dog…
Atrium of the defunct Görlitzer Warenhaus (pictured in 2015), which doubled for the Grand Budapest Hotel lobby
Miniature model of the Grand Budapest Hotel exhibited at Cinémathèque, Paris (2025)