Don Hertzfeldt
Don Hertzfeldt is a two-time Academy Award nominee whose animated films include "It's Such a Beautiful Day", the "World of Tomorrow" series, "Paper Trail", "ME", "The Meaning of Life", "On Memory", "Billy's Balloon", and "Rejected". His work has played around the world, received hundreds of awards, and in 2014 made a special appearance on "The Simpsons". 2020, GQ Magazine described his work as "simultaneously tragic and hilarious and philosophical and crude and deeply sad and fatalist and yet stubbornly, resolutely hopeful." The Austrian Film Museum has described his work as "films of a sort that never really existed before."
23 directing credits · 12 acting credits
Directing · 23
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2012
World of Tomorrow
2015
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
2020
The Meaning of Life
2005
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
2017
Rejected
2000
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2011
Paper Trail
2026
ME
2024
Wisdom Teeth
2010
Ah, l'Amour
1995
Lily and Jim
1997
Everything Will Be OK
2006
Animation Mixtape
2025
World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes
2021
I Am So Proud of You
2008
Intro
2017
Billy's Balloon
1998
Antarctica
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On Memory
2021
Genre
1996
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
2003
The Animation Show, Volume 1
2003
Acting · 12
The Simpsons
1989
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2012
Hair High
2004
Rejected
2000
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2011
Slacker 2011
2011
Wisdom Teeth
2010
Everything Will Be OK
2006
I Am So Proud of You
2008
Intro
2017
On Memory
2021
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
2003