Don Hertzfeldt
Born
1 August 1976 (49)
Place of Birth
Fremont, California, USA
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 st...
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."
Filmography (25)
Paper Trail
2026
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Animation Mixtape
2025
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ME
2024
On Memory
2021
World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes
2021
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
2020
Intro
2017
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
2017
World of Tomorrow
2015
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2012
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2011
Slacker 2011
2011
Wisdom Teeth
2010
I Am So Proud of You
2008
Everything Will Be OK
2006
The Meaning of Life
2005
Hair High
2004
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
2003
The Animation Show, Volume 1
2003
Rejected
2000
Billy's Balloon
1998
Lily and Jim
1997
Genre
1996
Ah, l'Amour
1995
Antarctica
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