Joe Johnston

Joe Eggleston Johnston II is a director of genre films, including Jurassic Park III and the 2010 film The Wolfman.
== Biography ==
Born in Austin, Texas, Joe Johnston attended California State University and Pasadena's Art Center College of Design. Early in his career, he was focused on design and special effects. He began his career as the technician on the first Star Wars film, did character design on The Empire Strikes Back and was art director for one of the special effects team of Return of the Jedi. Johnston would win the Academy Award for his visual effects work on Raiders of the Lost Ark and would work on visual effects and arts on many films. 
Johnston would go onto become a director, working on family friendly adventure movies Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Rocketeer, The Pagemaster, Jumanji and October Sky. He would then go on to direct the monster/adventure movie Jurassic Park III in 2001, which was a box office success. After directing the adventure movie Hidalgo, he directed The Wolfman in 2010, a remake of the 1941 horror movie of the same name.
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