Don Hertzfeldt
Known for
Directing
Born
August 1, 1976 (age 50)
Birthplace
Fremont, California, USA
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."
Best known work
The Simpsons
1989
The Devil's Candy
2016
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
2005Filmography
TBA
AntarcticaWriter, Director
2026
Paper TrailDirector, Editor, Sound Designer, Producer, Animation, Writer
2025
Animation MixtapeProducer, Director
2024
MEWriter, Animation, Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor, Sound
2021
On Memoryas Himself (voice), Producer, Animation, Editor, Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Sound
2020
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David PrimeDirector of Photography, Editor, Director, Writer, Animation, Sound, Producer
2017
Introas Self (voice), Writer, Director, Producer
2017
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's ThoughtsDirector, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Sound, Producer
2016
The Devil's CandyArt Designer
2015
World of TomorrowDirector, Writer, Editor, Producer, Digital Effects Producer, Musician, Animation, Sound Mixer, Sound Editor, Director of Photography
2012
It's Such a Beautiful Dayas Narrator (voice), Sound Editor, Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
2011
It's Such a Beautiful Dayas Narrator (voice), Writer, Director, Producer, Director of Photography
2011
Slacker 2011as TV Backpacker
2010
Wisdom Teethas Stanilus (voice), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
2008
I Am So Proud of Youas Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
2007
The Animation Show, Volume 3Producer
2006
Everything Will Be OKas Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer, Animation, Original Music Composer, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist
2005
The Animation Show, Volume 2Producer
2005
The Meaning of Lifeas (voice), Writer, Director, Animation, Producer, Director of Photography
2004
Hair Highas Dill (voice)
2003
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Showas Fluffy Thing #2 (voice), Writer, Director, Animation, Producer
2003
The Animation Show, Volume 1Director
2000
Rejectedas Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
1998
Billy's BalloonWriter, Director, Animation, Producer
1997
Lily and JimAnimation, Director, Producer, Writer, Color Designer