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Born 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."

Paper Trail
2026

Animation Mixtape
2025

ME
2024

On Memory
2021

World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes
2021

World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
2020

Intro
2017

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

World of Tomorrow
2015

It's Such a Beautiful Day
2012

It's Such a Beautiful Day
2011

Wisdom Teeth
2010

I Am So Proud of You
2008

Everything Will Be OK
2006

The Meaning of Life
2005

The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
2003

The Animation Show, Volume 1
2003

Rejected
2000

Billy's Balloon
1998

Lily and Jim
1997

Genre
1996

Ah, l'Amour
1995

Antarctica