- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- August 1, 1976
- Place of Birth
- Fremont, California, USA
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."
Filmography
moviePaper Trail
2026 · Director, Editor, Sound Designer, Producer, Animation, Writer
movieAnimation Mixtape
2025 · Producer, Director
movieME
2024 · Director, Writer, Animation, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer, Sound
movieWorld of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes
2023 · Director, Writer, Editor, Sound, Animation, Producer, Director of Photography
movieOn Memory
2021 · Himself (voice), Writer, Editor, Producer, Animation, Director, Director of Photography, Sound
movieWorld of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
2020 · Director of Photography, Writer, Editor, Animation, Sound, Producer
movieIntro
2017 · Self (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
movieWorld of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
2017 · Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Sound, Producer
movieThe Devil's Candy
2016 · Art Designer
movieWorld of Tomorrow
2015 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Sound Editor, Sound Mixer, Digital Effects Producer, Animation, Musician, Director of Photography
movieIt's Such a Beautiful Day
2012 · Narrator (voice), Sound Editor, Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
movieIt's Such a Beautiful Day
2011 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
movieSlacker 2011
2011 · TV Backpacker
movieWisdom Teeth
2010 · Stanilus (voice), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
movieI Am So Proud of You
2008 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
The Animation Show, Volume 3
movieThe Animation Show, Volume 3
2007 · Producer
movieEverything Will Be OK
2006 · Narrator (voice), Writer, Director, Animation, Producer, Original Music Composer, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist
The Animation Show, Volume 2
movieThe Animation Show, Volume 2
2005 · Producer
movieThe Meaning of Life
2005 · Director, Writer, Producer, Animation, Director of Photography
movieHair High
2004 · Dill (voice)
movieThe Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
2003 · Fluffy Thing #2 (voice), Director, Writer, Animation, Producer
movieThe Animation Show, Volume 1
2003 · Director
movieRejected
2000 · Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
movieBilly's Balloon
1998 · Writer, Director, Animation, Producer
movieLily and Jim
1997 · Director, Writer, Producer, Animation
movieGenre
1996 · Writer, Director, Producer, Animation
movieAh, l'Amour
1995 · Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
tvThe Simpsons
1989 · Future Bart / Future Lisa / Future Marge (voice), Animation
movieAntarctica
— · Director, Writer