---
name: "Diana Ossana"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/diana-ossana"
fi1m_id: "diana-ossana"
imdb_id: "nm0652223"
tmdb_id: 1805
wikidata_id: "Q460684"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "24 August 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T22:53:33.622616+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Diana Ossana

## Identity

Diana Ossana

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/diana-ossana
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** diana-ossana
- **IMDb ID:** nm0652223
- **TMDB ID:** 1805
- **Wikidata ID:** Q460684
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Ossana, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460684, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0652223/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1805

Producer. Born 24 August 1949 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 24 August 1949, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 1 nominated)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Ossana, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460684, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0652223/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1805

## Biography

Diana Ossana is an American screenwriter, producer and novelist. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she attended Eastern New Mexico University, where she studied English and political science, before working in law until 1992.

She is best known for her long collaboration with author Larry McMurtry. Together they wrote the screenplay for *Brokeback Mountain* (2005), which won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay along with BAFTA, Writers Guild of America and Golden Globe awards; Ossana also produced the film. Their other credits include the television miniseries *Streets of Laredo* (1995), *Dead Man's Walk* (1996) and *Comanche Moon* (2008), and the film *Joe Bell* (2020).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Brokeback Mountain* (2005), Fi1m 92, Producer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/brokeback-mountain.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Joe Bell* (2020), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Comanche Moon* (2008), series, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Brokeback Mountain* (2005), Producer, Screenplay — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/brokeback-mountain.md)
- *Johnson County War* (2002), Teleplay
- *Dead Man's Walk* (1996), series, Teleplay, Writer
- *Streets of Laredo* (1995), series, Teleplay, Executive Producer
- *Lonesome Dove*, series, Executive Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- 2006: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *Brokeback Mountain*
- 2006: Best Picture (nominated), for *Brokeback Mountain*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/diana-ossana