
Don Hertzfeldt
Directing
1976-08-01 · Fremont, California, USA
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

Paper Trail
2026 · Movie

Animation Mixtape
2025 · Movie

ME
2024 · Movie

On Memory
2021 · Movie

World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
2020 · Movie

Intro
2017 · Movie

World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
2017 · Movie

The Devil's Candy
2016 · Movie

World of Tomorrow
2015 · Movie

It's Such a Beautiful Day
2012 · Movie

It's Such a Beautiful Day
2011 · Movie

Slacker 2011
2011 · Movie

Wisdom Teeth
2010 · Movie

I Am So Proud of You
2008 · Movie
The Animation Show, Volume 3
2007 · Movie

Everything Will Be OK
2006 · Movie
The Animation Show, Volume 2
2005 · Movie

The Meaning of Life
2005 · Movie

Hair High
2004 · Movie

The Animation Show, Volume 1
2003 · Movie

The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
2003 · Movie

Rejected
2000 · Movie

Billy's Balloon
1998 · Movie

Lily and Jim
1997 · Movie

Genre
1996 · Movie

Ah, l'Amour
1995 · Movie

The Simpsons
1989 · Series

Antarctica
Movie