Professor chosen first Academy film scholar

A noted film historian at UW–Madison has been named the first Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ first Academy Film Scholar.

Tino Balio, professor of communication arts, will join a former UW–Madison colleague, Donald Crafton as the debut recipients of the $25,000 honor. Crafton is now a professor of communication and theater at Notre Dame University.

Balio will use the award to write his new book, “A Radically Different Cinema: Foreign Films in America, 1948 to the Present.”

“I am extremely honored to receive this award,” Balio says. “It will enable me to complete a project dear to my heart that has been preoccupying me for years.”