Diana Ossana is flat on her back, wracked with grief. She’s just lost her best friend and writing partner, Larry McMurtry, a man she nursed through open heart surgery in 1991 and a couple of other ...

“Brokeback Mountain” losing Best Picture to “Crash” at the 78th Academy Awards in 2006 is often cited as one of the most egregious Oscar snubs of all time. Two decades later, “Brokeback Mountain” ...

When asked for an interview, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana strike up a private comedy routine instead. The Oscar-winning "Brokeback Mountain" screenwriters, who live in Tucson at Ossana's home, ...

Clint Eastwood not watching Brokeback Mountain effectively confirmed that the movie wouldn’t win the Oscar for Best Picture, according to its co-writer Diana Ossana. Brokeback Mountain had been the ...

It's been 20 years since a couple of cowboys, Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar, first met herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain - and 20 years since director Ang Lee, screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana ...

“Brokeback Mountain’s” Oscar-winning co-writer Diana Ossana recently marked the film’s 20th anniversary with an interview in The New York Times, in which she revealed the exact moment she realized Ang ...

Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...

Oscar-winning writers Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana have inked a deal with Fox Broadcasting Co. and 20th Century Fox Television to develop a one-hour drama series. By Nellie Andreeva, The Associated ...

Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana will not participate in this weekend's Tucson Festival of Books. McMurtry has been in the hospital with a "cardiac event" for the past few days and is now home resting, ...

In shepherding “Brokeback Mountain” through its eight-year odyssey to the screen, Diana Ossana violated both of Max Bialystock’s cardinal rules of producing: Never use your own money — and never use ...

Diana Ossana, who won Best Adapted Screenplay for her work on Ang Lee's seminal Western love story, believes that Hollywood homophobia led to the film's loss to "Crash" at the Oscars. “Paul started ...