Don Hertzfeldt
Directing
- Born
- August 1, 1976 (age 50) · 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 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."
Known for
The Devil's Candy
December 15, 2016
It's Such a Beautiful Day
August 24, 2012
World of Tomorrow
January 22, 2015
Rejected
July 25, 2000
Everything Will Be OK
January 10, 2006
It's Such a Beautiful Day
November 17, 2011
Billy's Balloon
October 1, 1998
I Am So Proud of You
September 26, 2008
The Meaning of Life
January 21, 2005
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
September 22, 2017
Lily and Jim
October 9, 1997
Wisdom Teeth
January 21, 2010
Behind the camera25
- 2026Paper Trail Director, Editor, Sound Designer, Producer, Animation, Writer
- 2025Animation Mixtape Producer, Director
- 2024ME Animation, Writer, Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography, Sound
- 2021On Memory Editor, Writer, Producer, Animation, Director, Director of Photography, Sound
- 2020World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime Director of Photography, Writer, Animation, Director, Editor, Sound, Producer
- 2017Intro Director, Writer, Producer
- 2017World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts Editor, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Sound, Producer
- 2016The Devil's Candy Art Designer
- 2015