Don Hertzfeldt
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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Movies (27)
Paper Trail
2026 · Director, Editor, Sound Designer, Producer, Animation, Writer
Animation Mixtape
2025 · Producer
ME
2024 · Animation, Writer, Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography, Sound
On Memory
2021 · Himself (voice), Editor, Writer, Producer, Animation, Director, Director of Photography, Sound
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
2020 · Director of Photography, Writer, Animation, Director, Editor, Sound, Producer
Intro
2017 · Self (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
2017 · Editor, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Sound, Producer
The Devil's Candy
2016 · Art Designer
World of Tomorrow
2015 · Director, Producer, Editor, Writer, Sound Mixer, Sound Editor, Digital Effects Producer, Animation, Musician, Director of Photography
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2012 · Narrator (voice), Sound Editor, Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2011 · Narrator (voice), Writer, Producer, Director, Director of Photography
Slacker 2011
2011 · TV Backpacker
Wisdom Teeth
2010 · Stanilus (voice), Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Producer
I Am So Proud of You
2008 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
The Animation Show, Volume 3
2007 · Producer
Everything Will Be OK
2006 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Animation, Original Music Composer, Producer, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist
The Animation Show, Volume 2
2005 · Producer
The Meaning of Life
2005 · (voice), Writer, Director, Animation, Producer, Director of Photography
Hair High
2004 · Dill (voice)
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
2003 · Fluffy Thing #2 (voice), Director, Writer, Animation, Producer
The Animation Show, Volume 1
2003 · Director
Rejected
2000 · Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice), Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Billy's Balloon
1998 · Writer, Director, Animation, Producer
Lily and Jim
1997 · Director, Animation, Producer, Writer, Color Designer
Genre
1996 · Director, Writer, Animation, Producer
Ah, l'Amour
1995 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
Antarctica
· Director, Writer
