Don Hertzfeldt
Known for: Directing
Born: August 1, 1976
Place of birth: 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."
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Filmography
27 movies · 1 TV show, newest first
7.7
Paper Trail
2026
NR
Animation Mixtape
2025
7.8
ME
2024
7.8
On Memory
2021
8.3
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
2020
6.4
Intro
2017
7.9
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
2017
6.3
The Devil's Candy
2016
7.8
World of Tomorrow
2015
7.9
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2012
7.8
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2011
NR
Slacker 2011
2011
6.8
Wisdom Teeth
2010
7.5
I Am So Proud of You
2008NR
The Animation Show, Volume 3
2007
7.6
Everything Will Be OK
20068.0
The Animation Show, Volume 2
2005
6.8
The Meaning of Life
2005
6.4
Hair High
2004
6.9
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
2003
7.9
The Animation Show, Volume 1
2003
7.2
Rejected
2000
6.4
Billy's Balloon
1998
6.5
Lily and Jim
1997
6.8
Genre
1996
6.2
Ah, l'Amour
1995
8.0
The Simpsons
1989
NR
Antarctica
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