George Schwizgebel's picks...
"Je ne pratique pas beaucoup de sport mais je suis impressionné par la beauté des mouvements des athlètes, les ombres portées et la couleur du gazon. C'est cela, et aussi l'idée naive que l'on choisi toujours son équipe quand on regarde un match, qui m'a incité à réaliser Hors-jeu".

(I do not practice sport very much but I am impressed by the beauty of athletic movements, the shadows that they projects and the lawn color. It is for this reason, and also because of the naive idea that one always picks a team while watching a match, that I decided to make Hors Jeu.)

1 Tango by Zbigniew Rybcynski
2 The Tale of Tales by Yuri Norstein
3 Damon the Mower by George Dunning
4 Le jeu des anges by Walerian Borowczyk
5 Dream of the Sphinx by James Gore
6 Refleksy (Reflections) by Jerzy Kucia
7 The Comb From the Musuems of Sleep by the Brothers Quay
8 Creature Comforts by Nick Park
9 Blinkity Blank by Norman MacLaren
10 The Passing by Bill Viola

John Amitay's Spirit of the Olympics, done for the Olympiad of Animation.

Jonathan Amitay's picks...
"Spirit of the Olympics"... wow! 1984. And it was my first film to be shown internationally. I had no idea of the importance of such events. While making the film for the Olympics I used sand and shot the film with a very old animation camera that was on it's last sprockety legs. It would jam, oh would it ever jam, and mostly on the most important jobs. By the time I'd finish almost ANY job with that camera, all I was left with was the feeling of relief of having managed to make the deadline. Other than that I was too frazzled to think about anything else. Even today I find it difficult to watch my works from that period seeing the jump-cuts and remembering that dreaded "click," and then opening the camera body and the film spilling out like bloody spaghetti!"

1 The Mighty River by Frédéric Back, for it's awesome beauty and grand execution.
2 The Street by Caroline Leaf. What can I say ... it's so fantastically imaginative.
3 The Yellow Submarine by George Dunning
4 Ivan The Terrible by Sergei Eisenstein. A grandiose film and you don't have to understand a word of Russian to be mesmerized by it. It's like "watching" a Rembrandt, a J.S. Bach or a Beethoven.
5 Se7en by David Fincher --it's opening title which I found to be a unique piece of artistry and "branded itself" on my artistic psyche.
6 The Electric Blanket by Asi Dayan, which is gut stuff and Israeli to it's last frame, and contains a controversial and unforgettable scene about dying and death.
7 Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media by Mark Achbar A film that will leave no doubts in the minds of the mad dogs on the island (and even islands have their mad dogs) as to my political/social leanings.
8 Unconscious Civilization by John Ralston Saul, which is a piece of the most brilliant reasoning.
9 For music... There's so much...! On the spur of the moment I would probably grab any one of Mozart's piano concertos. His "Heavenly" music contains every possible human emotion.
10 I must admit that I would take one of my own films, Nukie Takes A Valium to remind myself that I'm not as lousy as I make myself to be sometimes...ha ha.