FILM DIRECTOR

Joe Johnston

1950 - Today

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Joseph Eggleston Johnston II (born May 13, 1950)is an American film director, producer, writer, and visual effects artist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Johnston has received more than 1,627,594 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Joe Johnston is the 669th most popular film director (down from 553rd in 2019), the 4,229th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,679th in 2019) and the 166th most popular American Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Joe Johnston ranks 669 out of 2,041. Before him are Johnnie To, Robert Z. Leonard, Aleksei Kapler, Richard Linklater, Claude Goretta, and Stephen Hopkins. After him are Baz Luhrmann, Alexander Payne, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Andrew Niccol, James Gunn, and W. S. Van Dyke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Joe Johnston ranks 215. Before him are Tomomi Seo, Michel Lotito, Yang Jiechi, Pasteur Bizimungu, Kristina Wayborn, and Renate Stecher. After him are Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Werner Peter, Hugh McDonald, Eddie Clarke, Julie Kavner, and Peter Frampton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joe Johnston ranks 4,229 out of 20,380. Before him are William Calley (1943), Stanley Kamel (1943), Robert McKee (1941), Helen Wills (1905), Philip H. Dybvig (1955), and Thom Mayne (1944). After him are Newt Gingrich (1943), Alexander Payne (1961), James Longstreet (1821), Dwight L. Moody (1837), Jim Davis (1945), and Roy Buchanan (1939).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Joe Johnston ranks 166. Before him are Stan Winston (1946), Friz Freleng (1906), Paul Thomas Anderson (1970), Andrew Blake (1947), Robert Z. Leonard (1889), and Richard Linklater (1960). After him are Alexander Payne (1961), James Gunn (1966), W. S. Van Dyke (1889), Burt Kennedy (1922), Billy Hayes (1947), and Paul Mazursky (1930).

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