Complex sentence: It has placed in the top ten of the American Film Institute's list of top 100 American films since the list's inception in 1998, and in 1989, "Gone with the Wind" was selected to be preserved by the National Film Registry.
Split into simpler sentences: It has placed in the top ten of the American Film Institute's list of top 100 American films since the list's inception in 1998. In 1989, "Gone with the Wind" was selected to be preserved by the National Film Registry.