Don Hertzfeldt
Known for Directing
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
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2012
Director
Rejected
2000
Director
World of Tomorrow
2015
Director
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
2003
Director
The Meaning of Life
2005
Director
Billy's Balloon
1998
Director
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2011
Director
Ah, l'Amour
1995
Director
Genre
1996
Director
Lily and Jim
1997
Director
Antarctica
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Director
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
2020
Director
Everything Will Be OK
2006
Director
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
2017
Director
Wisdom Teeth
2010
Director
ME
2024
Director
Animation Mixtape
2025
Director
On Memory
2021
Director
The Animation Show, Volume 1
2003
Director
I Am So Proud of You
2008
Director