After being forced to check his Academy Award on a transatlantic flight, recent Oscar winner Pavel Talankin disappeared before the airline tracked him down two days later.
Talankin, who directed the best film winner Mr. Nobody Against Putinhe didn’t expect to have to check his statue for a flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport to Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday.
But a Transportation Security Administration agent said he couldn’t get in.
“At the airport, a TSA agent stopped him and said Oscar could be used as a weapon,” Talankin’s co-director, David Borenstein, said Thursday night in a social media post.
“Pavel didn’t have a bag to check it in, so TSA put Oscar in a box and sent it down the plane,” Borenstein added. “It hasn’t arrived in Frankfurt.”
After Borenstein’s announcement caused an international outcry, Lufthansa airline on Friday said it had found the missing Oscar.
