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Don Hertzfeldt

Fremont, California, USABorn August 1, 1976

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."

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Paper Trail

Paper Trail

2026
Animation Mixtape

Animation Mixtape

2025
ME

ME

2024
On Memory

On Memory

2021
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime

World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime

2020
Intro

Intro

2017
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts

World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts

2017
World of Tomorrow

World of Tomorrow

2015
It's Such a Beautiful Day

It's Such a Beautiful Day

2012
It's Such a Beautiful Day

It's Such a Beautiful Day

2011
Wisdom Teeth

Wisdom Teeth

2010
I Am So Proud of You

I Am So Proud of You

2008
Everything Will Be OK

Everything Will Be OK

2006
The Meaning of Life

The Meaning of Life

2005
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show

The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show

2003
The Animation Show, Volume 1

The Animation Show, Volume 1

2003
Rejected

Rejected

2000
Billy's Balloon

Billy's Balloon

1998
Lily and Jim

Lily and Jim

1997
Genre

Genre

1996
Ah, l'Amour

Ah, l'Amour

1995