Steve Tesich won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the film Breaking Away.
16 Facts About Steve Tesich
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Steve Tesich was born as Stojan Tesic in Uzice, in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia on September 29,1942.
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Steve Tesich immigrated to the United States with his mother and sister when he was 14 years old.
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Steve Tesich graduated from Indiana University in 1965 with a BA in Russian.
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Steve Tesich was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
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Steve Tesich went on to do graduate work at Columbia University, receiving an MA in Russian Literature in 1967.
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Steve Tesich had been an alternate rider in 1962 for the Phi Kappa Psi team in the Little 500 bicycle race.
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The film was a hit, and Steve Tesich won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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Steve Tesich created a short-lived TV series of the same name.
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Steve Tesich reunited with Peter Yates, the director of Breaking Away, on the 1981 thriller Eyewitness starring Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Morgan Freeman, and Christopher Plummer.
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Steve Tesich adapted John Irving's novel The World According to Garp for the screen in 1982 directed by George Roy Hill and starring Robin Williams and Glenn Close in her film debut.
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Steve Tesich returned to the sport of cycling with the screenplay for American Flyers.
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Steve Tesich died in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada on July 1,1996, following a heart attack.
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In 1973, Steve Tesich won the Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright for the play Baba Goya, which is known under the title Nourish the Beast.
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Steve Tesich won the following awards for the Breaking Away screenplay in 1979, whose original working title was Bambino:.
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Steve Tesich received a nomination in 1980 for a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay-Motion Picture.