Oscar winner’s statuette missing after TSA refuses to allow it through security

The Academy Award for Best Documentary went into checked baggage at JFK — and never came out.

NEW YORK — The Oscar statuette belonging to the co-director and subject of this year’s Academy Award-winning documentary “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” has disappeared after TSA officials at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport refused to allow him to board a flight with it, insisting the trophy could be used as a weapon.

Pavel Talankin told Deadline he has flown more than a dozen times with the Oscar since his film won Best Feature Documentary in March. But when he

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