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Oscar goes missing after director forced to check it on flight: ‘could be used as weapon’
May 1, 2026
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After being forced to check his Academy Award on a transatlantic flight, recent winner Pavel Talankin’s Oscar went missing before an airline tracked it down two days later. Talankin, who co-directed the best documentary winner Mr Nobody Against Putin, did not expect to have to check his statuette for a flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport bound for Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday.
But a Transportation Security Administration agent said it could not go on board. “At the airport, a TSA...
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