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Leon Gast
Jul 24, 2021
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DOCUMENTARY
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American documentary film director, producer, cinematographer, and editor (1936-2021).
Gast tackled diverse themes in his documentaries including latin music, bike gangs and boxing. Perseverant in his work, It took him 22 years to complete his Oscar-winning film about the epic 1974 Ali-Foreman boxing match.
He won 1 Academy Awards for Best Documentary.
One of his films made it to our All-Time Best Films list :
When We Were Kings
All-Time Best Films:
592
When We Were Kings
1996
Sports Documentary Film
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