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At some point this year, the members of the National Film Registry sat down, watched Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1998 cult classic The Big Lebowski and thought “you know what? That rug really did tie the room together.” And thus chose the Jeff Bridges-starring film, along with 24 other films that aren’t The Big Lebowski, to be included in the National Film Registry this year.

The other 24 films that the Library of Congress recognized as “cultural, historic, or aesthetic cinematic treasures” that aren’t The Big Lebowski include classics Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the story of a schizophrenic teen’s imaginary friend, the early ’50s horror-thriller House of Wax, Roman Polanski’s classic Rosemary’s Baby, Steven Spielberg’s WWII epic Saving Private Ryan, and the film that spawned a generation of memes, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Here’s the full list:

  • 13 Lakes (2004)
  • Bert Williams Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913)
  • The Big Lebowski (1998)
  • Down Argentine Way (1940)
  • The Dragon Painter (1919)
  • Felicia (1965)
  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
  • The Gang’s All Here (1943)
  • House of Wax (1953)
  • Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
  • Little Big Man (1970)
  • Luxo Jr. (1986)
  • Moon Breath Beat (1980)
  • Please Don’t Bury Me Alive! (1976)
  • The Power and the Glory (1933)
  • Rio Bravo (1959)
  • Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
  • Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
  • Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  • Shoes (1916)
  • State Fair (1933)
  • Unmasked (1917)
  • V-E + 1 (1945)
  • The Way of Peace (1947)
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

    Another year, another glaring omission:

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