Don Hertzfeldt
Directing
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."
Filmography 26
Movies (25)
Paper Trail2026Directing
Animation Mixtape2025Directing
ME2024Directing
World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes2023Directing
On Memory2021Himself (voice)
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime2020Directing
Intro2017Self (voice)
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts2017Directing
World of Tomorrow2015Directing
It's Such a Beautiful Day2012Narrator (voice)
It's Such a Beautiful Day2011Narrator (voice)
Slacker 20112011TV Backpacker
Wisdom Teeth2010Stanilus (voice)
I Am So Proud of You2008Narrator (voice)
Everything Will Be OK2006Narrator (voice)
The Meaning of Life2005Directing
Hair High2004Dill (voice)
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show2003Fluffy Thing #2 (voice)
The Animation Show, Volume 12003Directing
Rejected2000Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice)
Billy's Balloon1998Directing
Lily and Jim1997Directing
Genre1996Directing
Ah, l'Amour1995Directing
AntarcticaDirecting
