# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-tesich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:47:57.767Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-tesich"
name: "Steve Tesich"
slug: "steve-tesich"
description: "Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the film Breaking Away."
tagline: "Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright and novelist (1942-1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steve_Tesich_003.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-09-29"
deathDate: "1996-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.87
  momentum:             0.2313624678663239
  historical:           13.00212933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856270/"
    handle:    "nm0856270"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ستيڤ تيسيتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Steve Tesich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%84%CE%AD%CE%B2%CE%B5_%CE%A4%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%84%CF%82"
    title: "Στέβε Τέσιτς"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Tesich"
    title: "Steve Tesich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%B3%DB%8C%DA%86"
    title: "استیو تسیچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Tesich"
    title: "Steve Tesich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Tesich"
    title: "Steve Tesich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Tesich"
    title: "Steve Tesich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Tesich"
    title: "Steve Tesich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Tesich"
    title: "Steve Tesich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Tesich"
    title: "Steve Tesich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiv_Te%C5%A1i%C4%87"
    title: "Stiv Tešić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Tesich"
    title: "Steve Tesich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%B9%DB%8C%D8%B3%DA%86"
    title: "اسٹیو ٹیسچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q709583"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69002"
    title: "Steve Tesich"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump