From burglary to ransom, Oscar-winners like Frances McDormand, Jared Leto, Whoopi Goldberg and Olympia Dukakis have lost their coveted statuettes.

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.

Pavel Talankin, a co-director and star of the documentary “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” was told by T.S.A. agents that his Academy Award could be used as a weapon.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just made rule and eligibility changes in the acting and International Film categories that have to rank with the most significant in Oscars nearly 100 year history.

The first American film to receive an “X” was Brian DePalma’s 1968 film Greetings, which starred a very young Robert De Niro and was deemed by the Motion Picture Association of America, which assigns film ratings, to be too explicit for an X rating.

Pavel Talankin’s Oscar is missing. The Mr Nobody Against Putin co-director had his statue confiscated at JFK airport for safety reasons, but it never arrived at its destination and has now been reported missing.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced sweeping rules changes for the upcoming Oscar season. The three biggest takeaways include a strong push away from AI, the possibility of actors receiving multiple nominations in the same category,