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Don Hertzfeldt

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American animator and filmmaker

United StatesDirectorsBorn 1976 · age 50
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Don Hertzfeldt is an American animator, writer, and independent filmmaker. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee who is best known for the animated films It's Such a Beautiful Day, the World of Tomorrow series, Paper Trail, and Rejected. In 2014, his work appeared on The Simpsons.

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Photos 3

Filmography 26

It's Such a Beautiful Day2012 · ★ 7.9
World of Tomorrow2015 · ★ 7.8
Rejected2000 · ★ 7.2
Everything Will Be OK2006 · ★ 7.6
It's Such a Beautiful Day2011 · ★ 7.8
Billy's Balloon1998 · ★ 6.4
I Am So Proud of You2008 · ★ 7.5
The Meaning of Life2005 · ★ 6.8
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts2017 · ★ 7.9
Hair High2004
Lily and Jim1997 · ★ 6.5
Ah, l'Amour1995 · ★ 6.2
Wisdom Teeth2010 · ★ 6.8
Genre1996 · ★ 6.8
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime2020
Paper Trail2026
The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show2003
ME2024
The Animation Show, Volume 12003
On Memory2021
Intro2017
The Animation Show, Volume 22005
Slacker 20112011
Animation Mixtape2025
The Animation Show, Volume 32007
Antarctica

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Television 1

The Simpsons1989

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Don Hertzfeldt is an American animator, writer, and independent filmmaker. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee who is best known for the animated films It's Such a Beautiful Day, the World of Tomorrow series, Paper Trail, and Rejected. In 2014, his work appeared on The Simpsons. Nine of his short films have competed at the Sundance Film Festival, a festival record. He is also the only filmmaker to have won the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize for Short Film twice.

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United States
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Movie Director
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Born 1976 · age 50
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