Oscar-Winning Director's Statue Goes Missing at Airport

0:00It's April 30th, from red carpets to breaking stories. This is Entertainment and Celebrity News, powered by AI. Pawel to Lincoln, co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, just lost his best documentary feature statue. It happened at New York's JFK airport when TSA agents wouldn't let him carry it on the flight, calling it a potential weapon. They boxed it up and checked it into the hole since he had no luggage, but when he landed in Frankfurt, Germany, the Oscar was gone. Earlier this year, Telenken and his team celebrated that big win at the Academy Awards. He was heading back to Europe, Oscar in hand is carrying on when security stopped him cold. A producer even jumped on the phone to argue, but TSA held firm and sent it with the bags. Co-director David Bornstein hit social media with a desperate call for help, sharing a photo of Telenken right before the airport hassle. The question of a big name actor or fluent English speaker would have faced the same treatment, pointing to what feels like unequal rules for a ward.

1:03Winners. No other cases like this have popped up, at least not publicly, making the stories stand out. Bornstein's post has folks buzzing about lost luggage and Oscar security quirks. Variety's chasing down liftons of her answers on the missing statue, so fingers crossed it turns up soon, before this turns into an even bigger.