Don Hertzfeldt

Don Hertzfeldt (49)

1976-08-01 | 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."

On Movies

  • Intro
  • It's Such a Beautiful Day
  • It's Such a Beautiful Day
  • Slacker 2011
  • Wisdom Teeth
  • I Am So Proud of You
  • Everything Will Be OK
  • Hair High
  • The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
  • Rejected

Series as Director

On Series

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