Oscar is lost and found after director forced to check it on a flight
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After being forced to check his Academy Award on a trans-Atlantic flight, recent winner Pavel Talankin’s Oscar went missing before an airline tracked it down two days later.
Talankin, who co-directed the best documentary winner “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” didn’t expect to have to check his statuette for a flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport for Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday.
But a Transportation Security Administration agent said it couldn’t go on board.
Then, it disappeared.
On Friday, the airline Lufthansa said it had found the Oscar and is expediting its return to Talankin.
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