Person

Don Hertzfeldt

Directing · 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."

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  The Simpsons

  Future Bart / Future Lisa / Future Marge (voice)

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  It's Such a Beautiful Day

  Narrator (voice)

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  The Devil's Candy

  Art Designer

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  Hair High

  Dill (voice)

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  Paper Trail

  Director

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  World of Tomorrow

  Director

• The Animation Show, Volume 2

  Producer

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  Rejected

  Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice)

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  The Meaning of Life

  Writer

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  World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes

  Sound

• 2026Paper TrailDirector
• 2025Animation MixtapeProducer
• 2024MEAnimation
• 2023World of Tomorrow: The First Three EpisodesSound
• 2021On MemoryHimself (voice)
• 2020World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David PrimeDirector of Photography
• 2017IntroSelf (voice)
• 2017World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's ThoughtsEditor
• 2016The Devil's CandyArt Designer
• 2015World of TomorrowDirector
• 2012It's Such a Beautiful DayNarrator (voice)
• 2011It's Such a Beautiful DayNarrator (voice)
• 2011Slacker 2011TV Backpacker
• 2010Wisdom TeethStanilus (voice)
• 2008I Am So Proud of YouNarrator (voice)
• 2007The Animation Show, Volume 3Producer
• 2006Everything Will Be OKNarrator (voice)
• 2005The Animation Show, Volume 2Producer
• 2005The Meaning of LifeWriter
• 2004Hair HighDill (voice)
• 2003The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the ShowFluffy Thing #2 (voice)
• 2003The Animation Show, Volume 1Director
• 2000RejectedSpoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (voice)
• 1998Billy's BalloonWriter
• 1997Lily and JimDirector
• 1996GenreDirector
• 1995Ah, l'AmourDirector
• 1989The SimpsonsFuture Bart / Future Lisa / Future Marge (voice)
• —AntarcticaDirector