Leon Gast, Oscar-Winning Documentarian of ‘When We Were Kings,’ Dies at 85
Natalie Oganesyan editorLeon Gast, the Academy Award-winning director behind sport documentary “When We Were Kings,” died on Monday, according to Meira Blaustein, his close friend and the co-founder of Woodstock Film Festival. He was 85.Blaustein shared the news of Gast’s death in a Facebook post.