Don Hertzfeldt
Biography
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."
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Movies (27)
Paper Trail
Director (Directing)
2026
Animation Mixtape
Producer (Production)
2025
ME
Writer (Writing)
2024
On Memory
as Himself (voice)
2021
World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes
Editor (Editing)
2021
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
Director of Photography (Camera)
2020
Intro
as Self (voice)
2017
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
Director (Directing)
2017
The Devil's Candy
Art Designer (Art)
2016
World of Tomorrow
Director (Directing)
2015
It's Such a Beautiful Day
as Narrator (voice)
2012
It's Such a Beautiful Day
as Narrator (voice)
2011
Slacker 2011
as TV Backpacker
2011
Wisdom Teeth
as Stanilus (voice)
2010
I Am So Proud of You
as Narrator (voice)
2008
The Animation Show, Volume 3
Producer (Production)
2007
Everything Will Be OK
as Narrator (voice)
2006
The Animation Show, Volume 2
Producer (Production)
2005
The Meaning of Life
Writer (Writing)
2005
Hair High
as Dill (voice)
2004
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
as Fluffy Thing #2 (voice)
2003
The Animation Show, Volume 1
Director (Directing)
2003
Rejected
as Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice)
2000
Billy's Balloon
Writer (Writing)
1998
Lily and Jim
Animation (Visual Effects)
1997
Genre
Director (Directing)
1996
Ah, l'Amour
Writer (Writing)
1995
