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Director, Producer, Art Director, First Assistant Director, Production Designer, Second Unit Director, Special Effects Biography:Getting his start in film as an effects technician on the original "Star Wars" (1977), it should come as no surprise that director "Joe Johnston" is generally drawn toward movies that lay it on pretty thick in the special effects and fantasy department. After all, Johnston would move on to work on some of the highest grossing effects-heavy fantasy films ever to thrill moviegoing audiences, even earning an Academy Award for best visual effects for his contributions to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981).
A former resident of Austin, TX, Johnston began his fruitful collaboration with "George Lucas"' Lucasfilm Ltd/Industrial Light & Magic with his work on the mythological trilogy that some sci-fi fans consider the Holy Grail of film. Defining childhoods of the 1970s and 1980s by capturing the imagination of filmgoers and giving substance to the far-off worlds that dreams are made of, Johnston refined his... Full Biography
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