Don Hertzfeldt
Born: 1976-08-01 in Fremont, California, USA
Known For: Directing
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."
Filmography
2026
- Paper Trail ... (Director)
2025
- Animation Mixtape ... (Producer)
2024
- ME ... (Director)
2021
- World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes ... (Director)
- On Memory as Himself (voice)
2020
- World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime ... (Director of Photography)
2017
- World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts ... (Director)
- Intro as Self (voice)
2016
- The Devil's Candy ... (Art Designer)
2015
- World of Tomorrow ... (Director)
2012
- It's Such a Beautiful Day as Narrator (voice)
2011
- Slacker 2011 as TV Backpacker
- It's Such a Beautiful Day as Narrator (voice)
2010
- Wisdom Teeth as Stanilus (voice)
2008
- I Am So Proud of You as Narrator (voice)
2007
- The Animation Show, Volume 3 ... (Producer)
2006
- Everything Will Be OK as Narrator (voice)
2005
- The Meaning of Life ... (Director)
- The Animation Show, Volume 2 ... (Producer)
2004
- Hair High as Dill (voice)
2003
- The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show as Fluffy Thing #2 (voice)
- The Animation Show, Volume 1 ... (Director)
2000
- Rejected as Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice)
1998
- Billy's Balloon ... (Writer)
1997
- Lily and Jim ... (Director)
1996
- Genre ... (Writer)
1995
- Ah, l'Amour ... (Writer)
1989
- The Simpsons as Future Bart / Future Lisa / Future Marge (voice)