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Stephen Hillenburg

Highest Rated: 80% The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)

Lowest Rated: 66% The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)

Birthday: Aug 21, 1961

Birthplace: Lawton, Oklahoma, USA

Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, but raised in Anaheim, California, Stephen Hillenburg's passion for drawing came early. Encouraged in school, Hillenburg continued his art, but was also fascinated by the sea, and graduated from Humboldt State University with a degree in marine biology. Hillenburg landed a job as a teacher, but decided that he couldn't deny his passion for art and enrolled in Cal Arts, graduating in 1992. He quickly landed a job as a director on "Rocko's Modern Life" (Nickelodeon, 1993-96), Nickelodeon's first attempt at producing their own animated content. When that show was cancelled, Hillenburg turned to a comic he had created when he was teaching marine biology to young students. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Nickelodeon, 1999-) quickly became a phenomenon. "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" (2002) grossed over $100 million worldwide. A second film "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water" (2015) grossed over 3 times that. The show has been nominated for seventeen Annie Awards for animation, winning 6, and eighteen Emmys, winning 4, including a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Series in 2018. Hillenburg revealed in 2017 that he had been diagnosed with ALS, and died in November 2018.

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Highest rated movies

80% 54% The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Watchlist
68% 78% The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Watchlist 66% 49% The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run Watchlist
100% SpongeBob An Scannan: Spuinse As Uisce
Watchlist
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Watchlist
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run 3D
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
66% 49% The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run Executive Producer $4.5M 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run 3D Executive Producer - 2020
80% 54% The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Executive Producer $163.4M 2015
No Score Yet 100% SpongeBob An Scannan: Spuinse As Uisce Executive Producer - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Executive Producer - 2015
68% 78% The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$85.4M 2004

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 68% SpongeBob SquarePants Painter (Guest Voice),
Creator,
Executive Producer,
Director,
Writer
1999-2024
No Score Yet 33% Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years Executive Producer 2024