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Diana Ossana is an American Academy Award-winning writer who has collaborated on writing screenplays, teleplays, and novels with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry since they first worked together in 1992, on the semi-fictionalized biography Pretty Boy Floyd.

Ossana and McMurtry co-wrote the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain, for which they 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. The film, released in the United States in December 2005, is based on a short story of the same name by Annie Proulx. 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. Ossana and McMurtry also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for Brokeback Mountain. Additionally, Ossana was a producer for the film.

The daughter of an Italian immigrant father, Ossana was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico and has lived in Arizona since 1977.

External links

• IMDb page for Diana Ossana
• 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)

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