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Don Hertzfeldt
Director · Producer
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1976Born, Fremont
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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 SimpsonsFuture Bart / Future Lisa / Future Marge (voice)
The Devil's CandyArt Designer
It's Such a Beautiful DayNarrator (voice)
World of TomorrowDirector
RejectedSpoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice)2026Paper TrailDirector · Editor · Sound Designer · Producer · Animation · WriterMovie
2025Animation MixtapeProducer · DirectorMovie
2024MEWriter · Animation · Director · Director of Photography · Producer · Editor · SoundMovie
2021On MemoryProducer · Animation · Editor · Writer · Director · Director of Photography · SoundMovie
2020World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David PrimeDirector of Photography · Editor · Director · Writer · Animation · Sound · ProducerMovie
2017IntroWriter · Director · ProducerMovie
2017World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's ThoughtsDirector · Writer · Editor · Director of Photography · Sound · ProducerMovie
2016The Devil's CandyArt DesignerMovie
2015World of TomorrowDirector · Writer · Editor · Producer · Digital Effects Producer, Animation · Musician, Sound Mixer, Sound Editor · Director of PhotographyMovie
2012It's Such a Beautiful DayNarrator (voice) · Sound Editor · Director · Writer · Producer · Director of PhotographyMovie
2011It's Such a Beautiful DayNarrator (voice) · Writer · Director · Producer · Director of PhotographyMovie
2011Slacker 2011TV BackpackerMovie
2010Wisdom TeethStanilus (voice) · Director · Writer · Director of Photography · ProducerMovie
2008I Am So Proud of YouNarrator (voice) · Director · Writer · Director of Photography · ProducerMovie
2007The Animation Show, Volume 3ProducerMovie
2006Everything Will Be OKNarrator (voice) · Director · Writer · Producer · Animation · Original Music Composer, Sound Recordist · Director of PhotographyMovie
2005The Animation Show, Volume 2ProducerMovie
2005The Meaning of Life(voice) · Writer · Director · Animation · Producer · Director of PhotographyMovie
2004Hair HighDill (voice)Movie
2003The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the ShowFluffy Thing #2 (voice) · Writer · Director · Animation · ProducerMovie
2003The Animation Show, Volume 1DirectorMovie
2000RejectedSpoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice) · Director · Writer · Director of Photography · ProducerMovie
1998Billy's BalloonWriter · Director · Animation · ProducerMovie
1997Lily and JimAnimation, Color Designer · Director · Producer · WriterMovie
1996GenreDirector · Writer · Animation · ProducerMovie
1995Ah, l'AmourWriter · Director · Director of Photography · EditorMovie
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