Don Hertzfeldt
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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 (2026)
Director
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Director
World of Tomorrow (2015)
Director
Rejected (2000)
Director
The Meaning of Life (2005)
Director
Everything Will Be OK (2006)
Director
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts (2017)
Director
ME (2024)
Director
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime (2020)
Director
Animation Mixtape (2025)
Director
The Animation Show, Volume 1 (2003)
Director
I Am So Proud of You (2008)
Director
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011)
Director
Ah, l'Amour (1995)
Director
Antarctica (—)
Director
Lily and Jim (1997)
Director
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show (2003)
Director
Intro (2017)
Director
Genre (1996)
Director
Wisdom Teeth (2010)
Director
Billy's Balloon (1998)
Director
On Memory (2021)
Director