Tim Hill

Tim Hill is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and former storyboard artist. He is best known as the co-developer and former story editor of the Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants (1999-present), along with directing the films Muppets from Space, Max Keeble's Big Move (2001), Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006), Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007), Hop (2011), The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020), and The War with Grandpa (2020).

Career Hill began his career in the 1990s as a writer for the show Rocko's Modern Life with Stephen Hillenburg and Derek Drymon, and was also a writer and producer on the shows Exit 57, KaBlam! and Kenny the Shark. Hill developed SpongeBob SquarePants with Drymon and art director Nick Jennings, and wrote the pilot episode as well as writing or co-writing four episodes for the first season. He also created the KaBlam! skit Action League Now!.

Hill directed the films Muppets from Space (1999), Max Keeble's Big Move (2001), Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006), Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007), Hop (2011) Hill was a screenwriter for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) and later co-wrote and directed The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020).

Filmography Film Year Title Director Writer Notes 1997 Action League Now!!: Rock-A-Big-Baby Short 1999 Muppets from Space 2001 Max Keeble's Big Move Also songwriter: "MacGoogle's Theme" 2004 The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Co-written with Derek Drymon, Stephen Hillenburg, Kent Osborne, Aaron Springer and Paul TibbittAlso storyboard artist and story editor 2006 Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties 2007 Alvin and the Chipmunks 2011 Hop 2020 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run Story co-written with Jonathan Aibel and Glenn BergerVoice of "Documentary Narrator" The War with Grandpa Filmed in 2017.

Television Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes 1991 Make the Grade 1 episode 1991–93 Welcome Freshmen 16 episodes (director); 43 episodes (writer) 1994–96 Rocko's Modern Life 27 episodes (writer);13 episodes (story editor) 1995–96 Exit 57 6 episodes 1996–2000 KaBlam! 21 episodes (director);18 episodes (writer);30 episodes (producer) 1999; 2005–07 SpongeBob SquarePants 18 episodes;Also developer and story editor 2000 The War Next Door Episode "Father Knows Death" 2001 Action League Now! Episode "The Chief: Look Back in Anger" 2001–02 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd 4 episodes 2003–05 Kenny the Shark 3 episodes 2004 Whoopi's Littleburg 2 episodes 2014 Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever TV movie 2017 Michael Jackson's Halloween TV short

Awards and nominations Year Award Category Film Result 1995 CableACE Award Best Comedy SeriesShared with Cindy Caponera, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, John C. Fisher, Joe Forristal, Nancy Geller, Jodi Lennon, Mitch Rouse & Amy Sedaris Exit 57 2006 Annie Award Best Writing in an Animated Television ProductionShared with Mike Bell, C.H. Greenblatt & Paul Tibbitt SpongeBob SquarePants