Oscar-winning filmmaker claims his Academy Award vanished
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And the Oscar for best documentary goes back to Russian filmmaker Pavel Talankin after Transportation Security Administration workers mistook the golden statuette for a lethal weapon and removed it fr
Pavel Talankin's Academy Award trophy was taken by TSA agents at John F. Kennedy Airport as he didn’t have a checked-in bag to put it in.
An Oscar statuette that went missing at New York’s JFK Airport has been found. Filmmaker Pavel “Pasha” Talankin, who won an Oscar this year for Best Documentary Feature for “Mr Nobody Against Putin,” was traveling internationally when TSA officials confiscated the statuette.
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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.
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