Another Oscar win for 'Mr. Nobody Against Putin': Filmmaker's missing statuette located after TSA dispute
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“Mr.Nobody Against Putin” filmmaker Pavel “Pasha” Talankin will soon be reunited with his Oscar statuette after it went missing amid his recent travels.
A spokesperson for European airline Lufthansa confirmed Friday in a statement shared with outlets that the coveted golden statuette has been located and is “safely in our care.” Lufthansa spoke on the missing Oscar after Talankin’s co-director Dave Borenstein raised the flag Thursday on social media.“Mr.
Nobody Against Putin” won the documentary feature film category at the 98th Academy Awards in March.According to Borenstein, Talankin arrived at the John F.
Kennedy International Airport in New York “to fly home to Europe” and had the Oscar in tow as a carry-on.Airport security allegedly stopped Talankin from bringing the Oscar on board, citing concerns it could be used as a weapon.
Borenstein said the film’s executive producer tried to smooth things but ultimately, “TSA put the Oscar in a box and sent it to the bottom of the plane” because Pavel did not have a check-in bag to place it in.He shared a photo of the cardboard box and Deadline published video of airport workers wrapping the statuette in bubble wrap and yellow tape.
Awards After fires destroyed Oscars belonging to Colleen Atwood and Rick Carter, the academy quietly stepped in, revealing what happens when Hollywood’s most prized trophy gets burned.Borenstein concluded his post noting the Oscar “never arrived” in Frankfurt, Germany, and speculated whether his co-director was on the receiving end of unfair treatment.“Would Pavel have been treated the same way if he were a famous actor? Or a fluent English speaker?” he wrote, tagging the Instagram account for the Transportation Security Administration.
He also tagged Lufthansa and urged them to assist.In response, Lufthansa commented on Borenstein’s post that it was on the mis...