Director
Don Hertzfeldt
August 1, 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."
Notable work
Often works with
- S
Sara Cushman
4 titles together
It's Such a Beautiful Day, World of Tomorrow, It's Such a Beautiful Day
Julia Pott
3 titles together
World of Tomorrow, World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts, World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
- W
Winona Mae
2 titles together
World of Tomorrow, World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
- R
Robert May
2 titles together
Rejected, Lily and Jim
- K
Karin Anger
2 titles together
The Meaning of Life, Lily and Jim
Full filmography · 23
Antarctica
Writer and Director
Upcoming
Paper Trail
Director and Writer
2026
Animation Mixtape
Director
2025
ME
Writer and Director
2024
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
Director and Writer
20208.3
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
Director and Writer
20177.9
World of Tomorrow
Director and Writer
20157.8
It's Such a Beautiful Day
as Narrator (voice) and Director and Writer
20127.9
It's Such a Beautiful Day
as Narrator (voice) and Writer and Director
20117.8
Slacker 2011
as TV Backpacker
2011
Wisdom Teeth
as Stanilus (voice) and Director and Writer
20106.8
I Am So Proud of You
as Narrator (voice) and Director and Writer
20087.5