Diana Ossana is a novelist, screenwriter and film producer best known for her collaborative film work with Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry.
Her screenplay collaborations with McMurtry include Pretty Boy Floyd, Streets of Laredo, Dead Man's Walk (both of which were miniseries) and Brokeback Mountain. In 2005 the 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 was also a producer on the film, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama. 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.
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