"Carrie, "The Little Mermaid" to be added to national film registry

Details: Every year, the Library of Congress picks movies it will preserve because they are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant," according to its website.

• About 6,800 titles were nominated this year, Steve Leggett, program director for the board, told Axios. Many nominations come from the public.

Yes, but: Only about 60 titles in the registry as of 2021 — just over 7% — are films directed by people of color, according to the library.

• Titles by Latino filmmakers include "Selena;" "Real Women Have Curves;" "Stand and Deliver;" and "La Bamba."
• Four of Spike Lee's films, including "She's Gotta Have It," are on the list.
• So is Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain."

The 2022 list includes Edward James Olmos' "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez," the seminal 1982 film shot on a small budget for PBS.

• Olmos told The Latinx Files this summer that the project has been "the best usage of film I’ve ever been a part of."
• "It was very much a keystone film in the 198s Chicano film movement," Leggett said.
• "It's really one of the key films of the 80s in many ways," Leggett added.