Ira Wohl is an American documentary filmmaker.[1] He is most noted for his 1979 filmBest Boy, which won theAcademy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the52nd Academy Awards.[2]
Born and raised in New York City, Wohl attendedForest Hills High School.[3] He had his first job in film working as an apprentice editor onOrson Welles's unfinished filmDon Quixotein Madrid, Spain[3] He then made a number of short films, worked on the television seriesBig Blue Marble, worked withJohn Lennon on a music video, then madeBest Boy.[3]
Best Boy premiered at the1979 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the festival's only prize-People's Choice Award before a separate People's Choice Award was instituted for the festival's documentary stream.[4] He received aGuggenheim Fellowship in 1980.
Wohl later returned to school at the University of Southern California (USC)in the early 1990s, studying clinical social work[3] He has been a psychotherapist for the students of the University of California, Los Angeles(UCLA) for more than twenty years.[3]
In 1997, he released the sequel filmBest Man: 'Best Boy' and All of Us Twenty Years Later.[2] In 2006, he released another follow-up film, titledBest Sister.[3]
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