Don Hertzfeldt
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July 31, 1976
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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The Simpsons
8.6(14.2K)
World of Tomorrow
7.8(472)
It's Such a Beautiful Day
7.7(160)
Rejected
7.6(283)
Everything Will Be OK
7.4(138)
I Am So Proud of You
7.3(114)
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
7.3(67)
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
7.1(41)
The Meaning of Life
7.0(96)
Billy's Balloon
7.0(129)
Filmography
Movies
TV Series
Upcoming
Hair High
6.8
Movie2004United StatesCharacter: Dill (voice)Credit: Acting
Everything Will Be OK
7.4
Movie2006United StatesCharacter: Narrator (voice)Credit: Acting, Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Original Music Composer, Sound Recordist, Animation, Writer
I Am So Proud of You
7.3
Movie2008United StatesCharacter: Narrator (voice)Credit: Acting, Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Writer
The Meaning of Life
7.0
Movie2005United StatesCharacter: (voice)Credit: Acting, Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Animation, Writer
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
6.9
Movie2003United StatesCharacter: Fluffy Thing #2 (voice)Credit: Acting, Director, Producer, Animation, Writer
It's Such a Beautiful Day
7.7
Movie2011United StatesCharacter: Narrator (voice)Credit: Acting, Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Writer
Slacker 2011
0.0
Movie2011United StatesCharacter: TV BackpackerCredit: Acting
Wisdom Teeth
6.8
Movie2010United StatesCharacter: Stanilus (voice)Credit: Acting, Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Writer
The Animation Show, Volume 1
7.0
Movie2003United StatesCredit: Director
World of Tomorrow
7.8
Movie2015United StatesCredit: Director of Photography, Director, Editor, Producer, Musician, Sound Editor, Sound Mixer, Animation, Digital Effects Producer, Writer
The Animation Show, Volume 3
0.0
Movie2007United StatesCredit: Producer
The Animation Show, Volume 2
6.9
Movie2005United StatesCredit: Producer
The Devil's Candy
6.4
Movie2016United StatesCredit: Art Designer
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
7.3
Movie2017United StatesCredit: Director of Photography, Director, Editor, Producer, Sound, Writer
Intro
6.9
Movie2017United StatesCharacter: Self (voice)Credit: Acting, Director, Producer, Writer
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
7.1
Movie2020United StatesCredit: Director of Photography, Director, Editor, Producer, Sound, Animation, Writer
On Memory
6.9
Movie2021United StatesCharacter: Himself (voice)Credit: Acting, Director of Photography, Director, Editor, Producer, Sound, Animation, Writer
World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes
6.9
Movie2023United StatesCredit: Director of Photography, Director, Editor, Producer, Sound, Animation, Writer
ME
6.9
Movie2024United StatesCredit: Director of Photography, Director, Editor, Producer, Sound, Animation, Writer
Animation Mixtape
0.0
Movie2025United StatesCredit: Director, Producer