
Don Hertzfeldt
Director
Born: August 1, 1976 (49 years old)
Place of birth: Fremont, California, USA
Biography
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 (20)
- Everything Will Be OK (2006, ★ 7.6)
- I Am So Proud of You (2008, ★ 7.5)
- It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011, ★ 7.8)
- It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012, ★ 7.9)
- The Simpsons (1989, ★ 8)
- ME (2024, ★ 8)
- World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts (2017, ★ 8)
- World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime (2020, ★ 8.4)
- Rejected (2000, ★ 7.2)
- Genre (1996, ★ 6.9)
- World of Tomorrow (2015, ★ 7.8)
- The Animation Show, Volume 1 (2003, ★ 7.8)
- Hair High (2004, ★ 6.4)
- Wisdom Teeth (2010, ★ 6.7)
- The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show (2003, ★ 6.8)
- Ah, l'Amour (1995, ★ 6.1)
- Billy's Balloon (1998, ★ 6.5)
- Lily and Jim (1997, ★ 6.5)
- The Meaning of Life (2005, ★ 6.7)
- The Devil's Candy (2016, ★ 6.3)