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Joni Mitchell will receive the Library of Congress’ Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, with plans for a tribute concert in Washington, D.C. that will air on PBS stations on March 31. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, said in a statement that Mitchell’s “music and artistry have left a distinct…

The Library of Congress has unveiled its annual list of 25 movies to make the cut for the National Film Registry. The selection, considered among America's most influential motion pictures, features titles ranging from an 1898 documentary of the Mardi Gras Carnival parade in New Orleans to the 1950 Cyrano…

Recordings of 9/11 news reports, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speeches and Henry Aaron’s 715th home run will be preserved alongside Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and other albums and singles — and one podcast — as the Library of Congress released its 2022 list of additions to the National Recording Registry today…

The Library of Congress has unveiled its annual list of 25 movies to make the cut for the National Film Registry. The selection, considered among America's most influential motion pictures, features titles spanning from 1902-2008. Among them are Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 Strangers On A Train; 1962’s Whatever Happened To…

EXCLUSIVE: Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy Of Detroit, directed by Sam Katz and James McGovern, swept the 2021 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, a three-year-old documentary award that carries a finishing grant of $200,000. The winning entry explores the decline of the American…

The Library of Congress has unveiled its annual list of 25 movies to make the cut for the National Film Registry. The selection this year, considered among America's most influential motion pictures, includes such titles as Christopher Nolan's 2008 The Dark Knight; DreamWorks Animation's Shrek, 1978 summer musical…

Documentary Hold Your Fire directed by Stefan Forbes (Boogie Man, The Lee Atwater Story) has nabbed the second annual Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, a $200,000 finishing grant for a filmmaker who uses original research and compelling narrative to tell stories that touch on an aspect of American…

The Library of Congress has unveiled its annual selection of 25 films added to the National Film Registry, with an unprecedented seven titles directed by women, the most in a single year since the inaugural registry in 1989. (Scroll down for the full list.) Among those making the cut for 2019 are Kimberly Peirce's…

The Better Angels Society, the Library of Congress and the Crimson Lion/Lavine Family Foundation said Tuesday they have established the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, an award to recognize exemplary accomplishment in historical documentaries. Submission are open now through June 1 for the honor…

Prepare to lose an afternoon or three: The Library of Congress announced today that it has digitized hundreds of hours of film and is making them available for viewing, free of charge, on its new “National Screening Room” website. Care to check out home movies of Liza Minnelli’s second birthday party, hosted by Ira…

Lots of folks have learned the hard way that their old, forgotten tweets still exist. Every one. In part that’s because Twitter in 2010 gifted the Library of Congress with every 140-character post beginning in 2006, and the federal archiver has received all of them since. That’s about to change. Director of…

With the holidays soon upon us, it’s time for the Library of Congress’ annual list of the 25 movies it has added to the National Film Registry. Fans of John McClane, misfit adventures and Kate & Leo have reason to cheer as Die Hard, The Goonies and Titanic are among the titles that have been selected this year for…