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Diana Ossana Born Diana Lynn Ossana
St. Louis, MissouriOccupation Screenwriter, producer, novelist Diana Lynn Ossana is an American writer who has collaborated on writing screenplays, teleplays, and novels with author Larry McMurtry since they first worked together in 1992, on the semi-fictionalized biography Pretty Boy Floyd. She is a published author in her own right of several short stories and essays.
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Life and career
Ossana first read the Annie Proulx short story Brokeback Mountain in the October 13, 1997 issue of The New Yorker magazine. She immediately urged her writing partner McMurtry to read it and asked him if he felt they could write a screenplay based upon the story. McMurtry agreed they could. They wrote Proulx asking her for an option to the short story in order to write a screenplay. Proulx replied that although she did not see the potential for a movie in the story, she would agree to their option. Ossana and McMurtry proceeded to write the script, which they completed in early 1998. Ossana's and McMurtry's screenplay for Brokeback Mountain won the Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and Writers Guild of America Award. Ossana, a producer on the film, also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama. The film was released in the United States in December 2005. Brokeback received widespread critical acclaim and it won the Golden Lion (Best Film) award at the Venice Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture - Drama. As a producer, Ossana joined cast and crew during the three months of shooting in Canada.
Ossana was born to an Italian immigrant father and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico and has lived in Arizona since 1977.
Awards and nominations
Academy Awards
- 2005: Best Film (nominated), Brokeback Mountain
- 2005: Best Screenplay - Adapted, Brokeback Mountain
BAFTA Film Awards
- 2005: Best Film, Brokeback Mountain
- 2005: Best Screenplay - Adapted, Brokeback Mountain
Golden Globe Awards
- 2005: Best Screenplay - Adapted, Brokeback Mountain
- 2005: Best Drama Brokeback Mountain
PGA Awards
- 2005: Best Film, Brokeback Mountain
WGA Awards
- 2005: Best Screenplay - Adapted, Brokeback Mountain
External links
- Diana Ossana at the Internet Movie Database
- HTML version of production notes for Brokeback Mountain (with an interview with Ossana about the film and some biographical information)
- Guide to the Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana papers at Rice University (with some background information)
- "My Time on Brokeback Mountain" (Essay by Diana Osanna on advocate.com, January 2006)
Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) 2001–2020 Akiva Goldsman (2001) · Ronald Harwood (2002) · Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson (2003) · Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) · Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005) · William Monahan (2006) · Joel and Ethan Coen (2007) · Simon Beaufoy (2008) · Geoffrey S. Fletcher (2009) · Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Complete list · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–2020) BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (2000–2019) Stephen Gaghan (2000) · Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Roger S. H. Schulman and Joe Stillman (2001) · Charlie and Donald Kaufman (2002) · Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (2003) · Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) · Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005) · Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan (2006) · Ronald Harwood (2007) · Simon Beaufoy (2008) · Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009) · Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Complete list · (1983–1999) · (2000–2019) Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay (2001–2020) Akiva Goldsman (2001) · Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2002) · Sofia Coppola (2003) · Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) · Larry McMurty and Diana Ossana (2005) · Peter Morgan (2006) · Joel and Ethan Coen (2007) · Simon Beaufoy (2008) · Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009) · Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Complete List · (1965–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–2020) Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama (2001–present) A Beautiful Mind – Brian Grazer (2001) · The Hours – Robert Fox (2002) · The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Peter Jackson (2003) · The Aviator – Michael Mann (2004) · Brokeback Mountain – Diana Ossana (2005) Babel – Steve Golin (2006) · Atonement – Tim Bevan (2007) · Slumdog Millionaire – Christian Colson (2008) · Avatar – James Cameron and Jon Landau (2009) · The Social Network – Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin (2010)
Complete List · (1951–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–2020) Categories:- American screenwriters
- BAFTA winners (people)
- Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners
- Eastern New Mexico University alumni
- American people of Italian descent
- Living people
- Western (genre) writers
- Women screenwriters
- Writers Guild of America Award winners
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