Hertzfeldt's feature film It's Such a Beautiful Day was listed by many film critics as one of the best films of 2012 and the L.A. he attracts the kind of fanatical support from the student and alternative crowds usually associated with indie rock bands'. In his book The World History of Animation, author Stephen Cavalier writes 'Hertzfeldt is either a unique phenomenon or perhaps an example of a new way forward for individual animators surviving independently on their own terms. In 2020, GQ described his work as 'simultaneously tragic and hilarious and philosophical and crude and deeply sad and fatalist and yet stubbornly, resolutely hopeful.' Hertzfeldt's work has been described as 'some of the most influential animation ever created', 'some of the most vital and expressive animation of the millennium', and 'some of the most essential short films of the last 20 years'. He is also the only filmmaker to have won the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize for Short Film twice. Eight of his short films have competed at the Sundance Film Festival, a festival record. In 2014, his work appeared on The Simpsons. 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, and Rejected.

Winner of over 250 other film festival awardsĭon Hertzfeldt (born August 1, 1976) is an American animator, writer, and independent filmmaker.

2015 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film ( World of Tomorrow).

2015 Grand Jury Prize for Short Film: Sundance Film Festival.

2007 Grand Jury Prize for Short Film: Sundance Film Festival.1999 Short Film Palme d'Or nominee: Cannes Film Festival.2001 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film ( Rejected).University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A.

Pencil animation short film