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Mini Bio (1) Born in Yugoslavia, Tesich was 14 when he came to America and settled in East Chicago, Indiana. His father, a machinist, died in 1962. He graduated from Indiana University in 1965 and did graduate work at Columbia University where he began to write plays. 'Breaking Away (1979)' won Tesich an Oscar and a Golden Globe nomination.
Jul 4, 1996 · NEW YORK -- Steve Tesich, 53, the Yugoslav-born playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter, died July 1 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, after a heart attack. A resident of New York City and...
Jul 3, 1996 · July 03, 1996. Steve Tesich, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who had mixed success in his attempts at play writing, died of a heart attack July 1, while vacationing in Nova Scotia. He was 53.
Oct 4, 2019 · Steve Tesich won a well-deserved Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work on Breaking Away. He went on to adapt the movie into a short-lived (1980-81) television series, wrote more screenplays (including Eyewitness [1981], Four Friends [1981], and The World According to Garp [1982]), more plays, and several novels before sadly ...
The director of "Four Friends" is Arthur Penn, and its screenwriter is Steve Tesich, and both of these men have worked in the genre before.
Playwright. STEVE TESICH was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie Breaking Away. Tesich graduated from Indiana University in 1965 with a BA in Russian and went on to do graduate work at Columbia University, receiving an MA in Russian Literature in 1967.
Steven Tesich made a name for himself in Hollywood after he won an Oscar for his script for Breaking Away, a story of bicycle racing, rivalry, and small-town youths coming of age. Set in Bloomington IN, the story was close to Tesich, for he, too, had been passionate about biking during his college days at Indiana University, Bloomington.
