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NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner, who captured Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and preserved legendary music acts like Jimi Hendrix and Leonard Cohen forever on film, has died, said his son, Noah. He was 90. Lerner died Sunday in New York City, his son said. The filmmaker earned an Oscar nomination in 1967 for “Festival,” his examination of the Newport Folk Festival, and won the best documentary statuette in 1981 for “From Mao to Mozart,” which followed violinist Isaac Stern in China.

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