Diana Ossana

Diana Ossana
Born	Diana Lynn Ossana St. Louis, Missouri
Occupation	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 won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar or Academy Award, a Writers' Guild of America Award, a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award for her screenplay of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, along with McMurthy and adapted from the short story of the same name by Annie Proulx. She is a published author in her own right of several short stories and essays.

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, the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award. Ossana, a producer on the film, also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama and a Best Film award (shared with James Schamus) for Best Film. 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, a Best Film award at the BAFTA Awards, 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 moved to Arizona in 1977. She currently resides in Texas.

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 Adapted Screenplay

1928–1940	Benjamin Glazer (1928) Hanns Kräly (1929) Joseph W. Farnham, Martin Flavin, Frances Marion, and Lennox Robinson (1930) Howard Estabrook (1931) Edwin J. Burke (1932) Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason (1933) Robert Riskin (1934) Dudley Nichols (1935) Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936) Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine (1937) Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb, and George Bernard Shaw (1938) Sidney Howard (1939) Donald Ogden Stewart (1940)

1941–1960	Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller (1941) George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis (1942) Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, and Howard Koch (1943) Frank Butler, and Frank Cavett (1944) Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (1945) Robert Sherwood (1946) George Seaton (1947) John Huston (1948) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) Harry Brown and Michael Wilson (1951) Charles Schnee (1952) Daniel Taradash (1953) George Seaton (1954) Paddy Chayefsky (1955) John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, and James Poe (1956) Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (1957) Alan Jay Lerner (1958) Neil Paterson (1959) Richard Brooks (1960)

1961–1980	Abby Mann (1961) Horton Foote (1962) John Osborne (1963) Edward Anhalt (1964) Robert Bolt (1965) Robert Bolt (1966) Stirling Silliphant (1967) James Goldman (1968) Waldo Salt (1969) Ring Lardner, Jr. (1970) Ernest Tidyman (1971) Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1972) William Peter Blatty (1973) Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1974) Bo Goldman and Laurence Hauben (1975) William Goldman (1976) Alvin Sargent (1977) Oliver Stone (1978) Robert Benton (1979) Alvin Sargent (1980)

1981–2000	Ernest Thompson (1981) Costa Gavras and Donald E. Stewart (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Peter Shaffer (1984) Kurt Luedtke (1985) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci and Mark Peploe (1987) Christopher Hampton (1988) Alfred Uhry (1989) Michael Blake (1990) Ted Tally (1991) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1992) Steven Zaillian (1993) Eric Roth (1994) Emma Thompson (1995) Billy Bob Thornton (1996) Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997) Bill Condon (1998) John Irving (1999) Stephen Gaghan (2000)

2001–present	Akiva Goldsman (2001) Ronald Harwood (2002) Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh (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) Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon (2011) Chris Terrio (2012) John Ridley (2013) Graham Moore (2014) Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015)

BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1983)
Bruce Robinson (1984)
Richard Condon and Janet Roach (1985)
Kurt Luedtke (1986)
Claude Berri and Gérard Brach (1987)
Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman (1988)
Christopher Hampton (1989)
Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese (1990)
Dick Clement, Roddy Doyle and Ian La Frenais (1991)
Michael Tolkin (1992)
Steven Zaillian (1993)
Paul Attanasio (1994)
John Hodge (1995)
Anthony Minghella (1996)
Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce (1997)
Elaine May (1998)
Neil Jordan (1999)
Stephen Gaghan (2000)
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Roger S. H. Schulman and Joe Stillman (2001)
Charlie Kaufman 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)
Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan (2011)
David O. Russell (2012)
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (2013)
Anthony McCarten (2014)
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015)

Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

Robert Bolt (1965)
Robert Bolt (1966)
Stirling Silliphant (1967)
Stirling Silliphant (1968)
Bridget Boland, John Hale and Richard Sokolove (1969)
Erich Segal (1970)
Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1972)
William Peter Blatty (1973)
Robert Towne (1974)
Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben (1975)
Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
Neil Simon (1977)
Oliver Stone (1978)
Robert Benton (1979)
William Peter Blatty (1980)
Ernest Thompson (1981)
John Briley (1982)
James L. Brooks (1983)
Peter Shaffer (1984)
Woody Allen (1985)
Robert Bolt (1986)
Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe and Enzon Ungari (1987)
Naomi Foner (1988)
Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic (1989)
Michael Blake (1990)
Callie Khouri (1991)
Bo Goldman (1992)
Steven Zaillian (1993)
Quentin Tarantino (1994)
Emma Thompson (1995)
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (1996)
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (1997)
Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (1998)
Alan Ball (1999)
Stephen Gaghan (2000)
Akiva Goldsman (2001)
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2002)
Sofia Coppola (2003)
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005)
Peter Morgan (2006)
Joel and Ethan Coen (2007)
Simon Beaufoy (2008)
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009)
Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Woody Allen (2011)
Quentin Tarantino (2012)
Spike Jonze (2013)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., and Armando Bó (2014)
Aaron Sorkin (2015)

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

A Place in the Sun (1951)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
On the Waterfront (1954)
East of Eden (1955)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Spartacus (1960)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Cardinal (1963)
Becket (1964)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Love Story (1970)
The French Connection (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
The Exorcist (1973)
Chinatown (1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Rocky (1976)
The Turning Point (1977)
Midnight Express (1978)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Ordinary People (1980)
On Golden Pond (1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Amadeus (1984)
Out of Africa (1985)
Platoon (1986)
The Last Emperor (1987)
Rain Man (1988)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Bugsy (1991)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Schindler's List (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
The English Patient (1996)
Titanic (1997)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
American Beauty (1999)
Gladiator (2000)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
The Hours (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Aviator (2004)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Babel (2006)
Atonement (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Avatar (2009)
The Social Network (2010)
The Descendants (2011)
Argo (2012)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Boyhood (2014)
The Revenant (2015)

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