Director
Don Hertzfeldt
Born 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 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."
Directed
It's Such a Beautiful Day
Director · 2012
World of Tomorrow
Director · 2015
Rejected
Director · 2000
It's Such a Beautiful Day
Director · 2011
Everything Will Be OK
Director · 2006
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
Director · 2017
I Am So Proud of You
Director · 2008
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
Director · 2020
Billy's Balloon
Director · 1998
The Meaning of Life
Director · 2005
Genre
Director · 1996
Wisdom Teeth
Director · 2010
Lily and Jim
Director · 1997
Ah, l'Amour
Director · 1995
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
Director · 2003
World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes
Director · 2021
ME
Director · 2024
The Animation Show, Volume 1
Director · 2003
Acting
The Simpsons
Future Bart / Future Lisa / Future Marge (voice) · 1989
It's Such a Beautiful Day
Narrator (voice) · 2012
Rejected
Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice) · 2000
It's Such a Beautiful Day
Narrator (voice) · 2011
Everything Will Be OK
Narrator (voice) · 2006
I Am So Proud of You
Narrator (voice) · 2008
Wisdom Teeth
Stanilus (voice) · 2010
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
Fluffy Thing #2 (voice) · 2003
Hair High
Dill (voice) · 2004
On Memory
Himself (voice) · 2021
Intro
Self (voice) · 2017
Slacker 2011
TV Backpacker · 2011
Writing
It's Such a Beautiful Day
Writer · 2012
World of Tomorrow
Writer · 2015
Rejected
Writer · 2000
It's Such a Beautiful Day
Writer · 2011
Everything Will Be OK
Writer · 2006
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
Writer · 2017
I Am So Proud of You
Writer · 2008
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
Writer · 2020
Billy's Balloon
Writer · 1998
The Meaning of Life
Writer · 2005
Genre
Writer · 1996
Wisdom Teeth
Writer · 2010