 Produced and directed by Lerner, the Oscar-nominated film was a documentary shot between 1963 and 1966 at the Newport Folk Festival that included performances by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Donovan, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, Johnny Cash and Joan Baez.Lerner's film "From Mao to Mozart" was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.He died of kidney failure in 2017 at the age of 90.