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Don Hertzfeldt

Don Hertzfeldt

Born: 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."

Filmography
On Memory poster
On Memory
2021 • Himself (voice)
Intro poster
Intro
2017 • Self (voice)
It's Such a Beautiful Day poster
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2012 • Narrator (voice)
It's Such a Beautiful Day poster
It's Such a Beautiful Day
2011 • Narrator (voice)
Slacker 2011 poster
Slacker 2011
2011 • TV Backpacker
Wisdom Teeth poster
Wisdom Teeth
2010 • Stanilus (voice)
I Am So Proud of You poster
I Am So Proud of You
2008 • Narrator (voice)
Everything Will Be OK poster
Everything Will Be OK
2006 • Narrator (voice)
Hair High poster
Hair High
2004 • Dill (voice)
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show poster
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
2003 • Fluffy Thing #2 (voice)
Rejected poster
Rejected
2000 • Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice)