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Don Hertzfeldt

Don Hertzfeldt

Director · Born 1976-08-01 · Fremont, California, USA

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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."

Directed

  1. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) — Director
  2. World of Tomorrow (2015) — Director
  3. Rejected (2000) — Director
  4. Everything Will Be OK (2006) — Director
  5. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011) — Director
  6. Billy's Balloon (1998) — Director
  7. I Am So Proud of You (2008) — Director
  8. The Meaning of Life (2005) — Director
  9. World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts (2017) — Director
  10. Lily and Jim (1997) — Director
  11. Wisdom Teeth (2010) — Director
  12. Ah, l'Amour (1995) — Director
  13. Genre (1996) — Director
  14. World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime (2020) — Director
  15. The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show (2003) — Director
  16. ME (2024) — Director
  17. The Animation Show, Volume 1 (2003) — Director
  18. On Memory (2021) — Director
  19. Intro (2017) — Director
  20. Paper Trail (2026) — Director
  21. World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes (2023) — Director
  22. Antarctica — Director
  23. Animation Mixtape (2025) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. The Simpsons (1989) — Future Bart / Future Lisa / Future Marge (voice)
  2. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) — Narrator (voice)
  3. Rejected (2000) — Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice)
  4. Everything Will Be OK (2006) — Narrator (voice)
  5. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011) — Narrator (voice)
  6. I Am So Proud of You (2008) — Narrator (voice)
  7. Wisdom Teeth (2010) — Stanilus (voice)
  8. Hair High (2004) — Dill (voice)
  9. The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show (2003) — Fluffy Thing #2 (voice)
  10. On Memory (2021) — Himself (voice)
  11. Intro (2017) — Self (voice)
  12. Slacker 2011 (2011) — TV Backpacker