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Don Hertzfeldt

DIRECTING

1976-08-01 (49)

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."

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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."

Best known for:

Filmography:

The Simpsons poster

The Simpsons(1989)

Future Bart / Future Lisa / Future Marge (voice)

Animation

Ah, l'Amour poster

Ah, l'Amour(1995)

Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Editor

Genre poster

Genre(1996)

Writer, Director, Producer, Animation

Lily and Jim poster

Lily and Jim(1997)

Director, Writer, Producer, Animation

Billy's Balloon poster

Billy's Balloon(1998)

Writer, Director, Animation, Producer

Rejected poster

Rejected(2000)

Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice)

Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer

The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show poster

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 poster

The Animation Show, Volume 1(2003)

Director

Hair High poster

Hair High(2004)

Dill (voice)

The Meaning of Life poster

The Meaning of Life(2005)

Director, Writer, Producer, Animation, Director of Photography

Everything Will Be OK poster

Everything Will Be OK(2006)

Narrator (voice)

Writer, Director, Animation, Producer, Original Music Composer, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist

I Am So Proud of You poster

I Am So Proud of You(2008)

Narrator (voice)

Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer

Wisdom Teeth poster

Wisdom Teeth(2010)

Stanilus (voice)

Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer

It's Such a Beautiful Day poster

It's Such a Beautiful Day(2011)

Narrator (voice)

Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography

Slacker 2011 poster

Slacker 2011(2011)

TV Backpacker

It's Such a Beautiful Day poster

It's Such a Beautiful Day(2012)

Narrator (voice)

Sound Editor, Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography

World of Tomorrow poster

World of Tomorrow(2015)

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Sound Editor, Sound Mixer, Digital Effects Producer, Animation, Musician, Director of Photography

The Devil's Candy poster

The Devil's Candy(2016)

Art Designer

World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts poster

World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts(2017)

Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Sound, Producer

World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime poster

World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime(2020)

Director of Photography, Director, Writer, Editor, Animation, Sound, Producer

World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes poster

World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes(2021)

Director, Writer, Editor, Sound, Animation, Producer, Director of Photography

ME poster

ME(2024)

Director, Writer, Animation, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer, Sound

Animation Mixtape poster

Animation Mixtape(2025)

Producer, Director

Paper Trail poster

Paper Trail(2026)

Director, Editor, Sound Designer, Producer, Animation, Writer

Antarctica poster

Antarctica

Director, Writer