Director
Don Hertzfeldt
50 years · Fremont, California, USA · 24 films
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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Best known for
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2012 · Narrator (voice), Director
World of Tomorrow
2015 · Director, Writer
Rejected
2000 · Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice), Director
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2011 · Narrator (voice), Writer
Everything Will Be OK
2006 · Narrator (voice), Director
Billy's Balloon
1998 · Writer, Director
Filmography 23
Paper Trail
2026 · Director, Editor
Animation Mixtape
2025 · Producer, Director
ME
2024 · Writer, Director
On Memory
2021 · Himself (voice), Producer
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
2020 · Cinematography, Editor
Intro
2017 · Self (voice), Writer
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
2017 · Director, Writer
World of Tomorrow
2015 · Director, Writer
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2012 · Narrator (voice), Director
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2011 · Narrator (voice), Writer
Slacker 2011
2011 · TV Backpacker
Wisdom Teeth
2010 · Stanilus (voice), Director
I Am So Proud of You
2008 · Narrator (voice), Director
Everything Will Be OK
2006 · Narrator (voice), Director
The Meaning of Life
2005 · (voice), Writer
Hair High
2004 · Dill (voice)
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
2003 · Fluffy Thing #2 (voice), Writer
The Animation Show, Volume 1
2003 · Director
Rejected
2000 · Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice), Director
Billy's Balloon
1998 · Writer, Director
Lily and Jim
1997 · Director, Producer
Genre
1996 · Director, Writer
Ah, l'Amour
1995 · Writer, Director