Don Hertzfeldt
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 1, 1976, Fremont, California, USA
- Movies
- 35
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."
Upcoming Don Hertzfeldt Movies
Antarctica
Release date TBA
Best-Known Movies
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2012
World of Tomorrow
2015
Rejected
2000
Everything Will Be OK
2006
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2011
Billy's Balloon
1998
I Am So Proud of You
2008
The Meaning of Life
2005
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
2017
Lily and Jim
1997
Filmography
| 2021 | On Memory | Himself (voice) |
| 2017 | Intro | Self (voice) |
| 2012 | It's Such a Beautiful Day | Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | It's Such a Beautiful Day | Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | Slacker 2011 | TV Backpacker |
| 2010 | Wisdom Teeth | Stanilus (voice) |
| 2008 | I Am So Proud of You | Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | Everything Will Be OK | Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | The Meaning of Life | (voice) |
| 2004 | Hair High | Dill (voice) |
| 2003 | The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show | Fluffy Thing #2 (voice) |
| 2000 | Rejected | Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice) |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2026 | Paper Trail | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2025 | Animation Mixtape | Producer, Director |
| 2024 | ME | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2021 | On Memory | Writer, Producer, Director |
| 2020 | World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2017 | Intro | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2017 | World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2015 | World of Tomorrow | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2012 | It's Such a Beautiful Day | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2011 | It's Such a Beautiful Day | Writer, Producer, Director |
| 2010 | Wisdom Teeth | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2008 | I Am So Proud of You | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2007 | The Animation Show, Volume 3 | Producer |
| 2006 | Everything Will Be OK | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2005 | The Animation Show, Volume 2 | Producer |
| 2005 | The Meaning of Life | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2003 | The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2003 | The Animation Show, Volume 1 | Director |
| 2000 | Rejected | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 1998 | Billy's Balloon | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 1997 | Lily and Jim | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 1996 | Genre | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1995 | Ah, l'Amour | Director, Writer |
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