Gotti

Gotti may refer to:

People

Film and TV

John A. Gotti

John Angelo Gotti III (born February 14, 1964) known as "Junior" Gotti, is a former New York City mobster who, according to law enforcement claims, was acting boss of the Gambino crime family from 1992 to 1999 after his father, John J. Gotti, was sent to prison. Between 2004 and 2009 Gotti was a defendant in four racketeering trials which all ended in mistrials. In January 2010, federal prosecutors announced that they would no longer seek to prosecute Gotti for those charges. However John Gotti helped FBI investigators in investigations which led to dozens of arrests and prosecutions according to official FBI documents. He has been referred to as "Teflon Jr." for evading conviction like his father. He has also been referred to as "Dumbfella" in the press and called a "Spoiled Brat" by former Gambino enforcer John Alite. He has stated that he is no longer associated with organized crime.

Early life

Gotti is one of five children born to an Italian American mobster, John Joseph Gotti Jr. and Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti, whose father was of Italian descent, and mother was of Russian ancestry. He grew up in the Italian-American neighborhood of Howard Beach, a section of Queens, New York, and attended New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York.

Joe Johnston

Joseph Eggleston "Joe" Johnston II (born May 13, 1950) is an American film director and former effects artist best known for such effects-driven movies as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), Jumanji (1995) and Jurassic Park III (2001). These movies include a number of period films such as The Rocketeer (1991), The Wolfman (2010), and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). In 1999 Johnston won acclaim for the biographical drama October Sky.

Early life

Johnston was born in Austin, Texas, and attended California State University, Long Beach, and Pasadena's Art Center College of Design.

Career

Design and visual effects

Much of the work at the beginning of Johnston's screen career combined design and special effects. He began his career as a concept artist and effects technician on the first Star Wars film, directed by George Lucas, and was art director on one of the effects teams for the sequel. His association with Lucas would later prove fruitful, when he became one of four to win an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Lucas and Steven Spielberg's film Raiders of the Lost Ark. Johnston continued to work on many films as an effects expert.