Ira Wohl
Ira Wohl is an American documentary filmmaker. He is most noted for his 1979 film Best Boy, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 52nd Academy Awards.
Born and raised in New York City, Wohl attended Forest Hills High School. He had his first job in film working as an editor on Orson Welles's unfinished film Don Quixote. He then made a number of short films, worked on the television series Big Blue Marble, worked with John Lennon on two music videos, then made Best Boy.
Best Boy premiered at the 1979 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was one of two documentary films to win the festival's People's Choice Award before a separate People's Choice Award was instituted for the festival's documentary stream. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980.
Wohl later returned to school in the early 1990s, studying social work at the University of Southern California. He has been a faculty member in the graduate social work program at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In 1997, he released the sequel film Best Man: 'Best Boy' and All of Us Twenty Years Later. In 2006, he released another follow-up film, titled Best Sister.
