Steve Tesich - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

Steve Tesich won the following awards for the Breaking Away screenplay in 1979, whose original working title was Bambino:

• National Society of Film Critics Award, Best Screenplay

• New York Film Critics Circle Award, Best Screenplay

• Oscar, Best Original Screenplay

• Writers Guild of America Award, Best-Written Comedy Written Directly for the Screen

• Screenwriter of the Year, ALFS Award from the London Critics Circle Film Awards, 1981

Steve Tesich also received a nomination in 1980 for a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay-Motion Picture. The movie Breaking Away won the 1980 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture-Musical/Comedy.

The screenplay to the movie was also published in book form as Breaking Away, 1979 (St. Martin's Original Screenplay Series). As a movie tie-in, a novelization of the screenplay was also published in 1979 by Warner Books in New York written by Joseph Howard based on the screenplay by Steve Tesich.

In 1973, Tesich won the Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright for the play Baba Goya, which is also known under the title Nourish the Beast.

In 2005, the Serbian Ministry for diaspora established the annual Stojan—Steve Tešić Award, to be awarded to the writers of Serbian origin that write in other languages.