Oscar-Winning Doc Director's Golden Statue Missing

0:00It's April 30th. This is entertainment in celebrity news today pop culture powered by AI. Pawel Tulankin just won his first Oscar for best documentary feature with Mr. Nobody against Putin, but now that golden statue is missing after a while. TSA mix up at JFK Airport. Yesterday, Tulankin was heading home to Europe with the Oscar in his carry on. A TSA agent stopped him, claiming it could be used as a weapon and refused to let him board with it. They made him pack it in a cardboard box and check it, even though he had no other bags. Tallankin stars in and co-directed the film, which tracks his efforts in a Russian mining town to expose how the Putin government feeds info about the Rousseau-Ukrainian war to school kids. It premiered at Sundance last year and snagged the Oscar this March. Co-director David Bornstein posted about it on Instagram, wondering if a big name actor or fluent English speaker would face the same hassle. He couldn't find any other cases of Oscars getting checked like this. Lufthansa is now on the hook to help track down that lost box in Frankfurt and Bornstein's

1:04calling on anyone with tips or similar stories to reach. Now, fingers crossed that award makes it home soon.