Don Hertzfeldt

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Don Hertzfeldt

Directing 50 August 1, 1976

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 L…

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons

8.0 1989 TV Show
The Devil's Candy

The Devil's Candy

6.3 2016 Movie
It's Such a Beautiful Day

It's Such a Beautiful Day

7.9 2012 Movie
World of Tomorrow

World of Tomorrow

7.8 2015 Movie
Rejected

Rejected

7.3 2000 Movie
Everything Will Be OK

Everything Will Be OK

7.6 2006 Movie
It's Such a Beautiful Day

It's Such a Beautiful Day

7.8 2011 Movie
Billy's Balloon

Billy's Balloon

6.4 1998 Movie
I Am So Proud of You

I Am So Proud of You

7.5 2008 Movie
The Meaning of Life

The Meaning of Life

6.8 2005 Movie
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts

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

7.9 2017 Movie
Lily and Jim

Lily and Jim

6.5 1997 Movie

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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."

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    Paper Trail

    Movie Director

  2. 2025
    Animation Mixtape

    Movie Producer

  3. 2024
    ME

    Movie Director

  4. 2021
    On Memory

    Movie Himself (voice)

  5. 2020
    World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime

    Movie Director of Photography

  6. 2017
    Intro

    Movie Self (voice)

  7. 2017
    World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts

    Movie Director

  8. 2016
    The Devil's Candy

    Movie Art Designer

  9. 2015
    World of Tomorrow

    Movie Director

  10. 2012
    It's Such a Beautiful Day

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  11. 2011
    It's Such a Beautiful Day

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  12. 2011
    Slacker 2011

    Movie TV Backpacker

  13. 2010
    Wisdom Teeth

    Movie Stanilus (voice)

  14. 2008
    I Am So Proud of You

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  15. 2007
    The Animation Show, Volume 3

    Movie Producer

  16. 2006
    Everything Will Be OK

    Movie Narrator (voice)

More credits
  1. 2005
    The Animation Show, Volume 2

    Movie Producer

  2. 2005
    The Meaning of Life

    Movie (voice)

  3. 2004
    Hair High

    Movie Dill (voice)

  4. 2003
    The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show

    Movie Fluffy Thing #2 (voice)

  5. 2003
    The Animation Show, Volume 1

    Movie Director

  6. 2000
    Rejected

    Movie Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice)

  7. 1998
    Billy's Balloon

    Movie Writer

  8. 1997
    Lily and Jim

    Movie Director

  9. 1996
    Genre

    Movie Writer

  10. 1995
    Ah, l'Amour

    Movie Writer

  11. 1989
    The Simpsons

    TV show Future Bart / Future Lisa / Future Marge (voice)

  12. —
    Antarctica

    Movie Director