About
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
Paper Trail2026 · Director, Editor, Sound Designer, Producer, Animation, Writer
Animation Mixtape2025 · Producer, Director
ME2024 · Animation, Writer, Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography, Sound
World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes2023 · Sound, Editor, Animation, Producer, Director, Writer, Director of Photography
On Memory2021 · Editor, Writer, Producer, Animation, Director, Director of Photography, Sound
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime2020 · Director of Photography, Writer, Animation, Editor, Sound, Producer
Intro2017 · Director, Writer, Producer
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts2017 · Editor, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Sound, Producer
The Devil's Candy2016 · Art Designer
World of Tomorrow2015 · Director, Producer, Editor, Writer, Sound Mixer, Sound Editor, Digital Effects Producer, Animation, Musician, Director of Photography
It's Such a Beautiful Day2012 · Sound Editor, Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
It's Such a Beautiful Day2011 · Writer, Producer, Director, Director of Photography
Wisdom Teeth2010 · Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Producer
I Am So Proud of You2008 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
The Animation Show, Volume 32007 · Producer
Everything Will Be OK2006 · Director, Writer, Animation, Original Music Composer, Producer, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist
The Animation Show, Volume 22005 · Producer
The Meaning of Life2005 · Writer, Director, Animation, Producer, Director of Photography
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show2003 · Director, Writer, Animation, Producer
The Animation Show, Volume 12003 · Director