James Jerome Hill II (March 2, 1905 – November 21, 1972) was an American filmmaker and artist known for his documentary and experimental films, one of which won him an Academy Award.
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Hill was the child of railroad executive Louis W. Hill.
He was educated at Yale, where he drew covers, caricatures and cartoons for campus humor magazine The Yale Record.
His 1950 documentary Grandma Moses, written and narrated by Archibald MacLeish, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel. He won the 1958 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film Albert Schweitzer.
In addition to making films, he was a painter and composer.
His last film, the autobiographical Film Portrait (1972), was added to the National Film Registry in 2003.