
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

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

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

ME (2024)
Director

The Meaning of Life (2005)
Director

Everything Will Be OK (2006)
Director

Rejected (2000)
Director

Ah, l'Amour (1995)
Director

Billy's Balloon (1998)
Director

Lily and Jim (1997)
Director

I Am So Proud of You (2008)
Director

Animation Mixtape (2025)
Director

Wisdom Teeth (2010)
Director

It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011)
Director

Antarctica (—)
Director

The Animation Show, Volume 1 (2003)
Director

On Memory (2021)
Director

Genre (1996)
Director

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

Intro (2017)
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