The Academy Award for Best Documentary went into checked baggage at JFK — and never came out. The airline later found the Oscar and is returning it.
NEW YORK — The Oscar statuette belonging to the co-director and subject of this year’s Academy Award-winning documentary “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” 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.
After Lufthansa conducted a search, they found Pavel Talankin’s Oscar and said they will return it, according
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