![]() ![]() ![]() The film also took home Oscars for best picture, best actress (for Shirley MacLaine), best adapted screenplay, and best supporting actor (for Jack Nicholson). Brooks directed the movie adaptation of Terms of Endearment and in turn won an Oscar for best director in 1984. Younger moviegoers are likely more familiar with Brokeback Mountain, for which he wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay with his longtime collaborator, Diana Ossana.įriends, fans, and collaborators of McMurtry's flooded social media with remembrances and messages that mourned his loss and celebrated his art. Meanwhile, his sprawling, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Lonesome Dove served as the source material for a popular 1989 television miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall. Several of his novels were adapted into successful films, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, and Horseman, Pass By (retitled as Hud). His words not only captured imaginations of readers, but also those of movie and television audiences. ![]() Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry accepting the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain" on March 5, 2006. ![]()
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