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Missing Oscar found after director forced to check it on a flight out of JFK 95%
By The Associated Press74%
5/1/2026, 7:19:27 PM
Topics: Academy Awards, Film Industry
BS Summary: This article contains 24 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Framing Effect, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 24.7% saturation with 90 hits. Analysis detected 901 faulty-reasoning hits from 365 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 92.6% and a BS Rank of 95% (855 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 94.90% of the article peer group.
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 bound for Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday.
But a Transportation Security Administration agent said it couldn't go on board.
"At the airport, a TSA agent stopped him and said the Oscar could be used as a weapon," Talankin's co-director, David Borenstein, said Thursday night in a post on Instagram.
"Pavel didn't have a bag to check it in, so the TSA put the Oscar in a box and sent it to the bottom of the plane," added Borenstein.
"It never arrived in Frankfurt."
After Borenstein's announcement prompted an international outcry, the airline Lufthansa on Friday said it had found the lost Oscar.
"We can confirm that the Oscar statue has now been located and is safely in our care in Frankfurt," the airline said in statement.
"We are in direct contact with the guest to arrange its personal return as quickly as possible.
We sincerely regret the inconvenience caused and have apologized to the owner."
Lufthansa added that an "internal review of the circumstances is ongoing."
Talankin and Borenstein collaboration
In March, Mr.
Nobody Against Putin won the Academy Award for best documentary, and Talankin and Borenstein's acceptance speech supplied one of the most memorable moments of the ceremony.
Talankin — the "Mr.
Nobody" of the film — was a teacher and activities director in a small-town school in Russia who captured on video his students' lessons, chants and songs promoting Putin's war in Ukraine.
He smuggled his hard drives out of the country to collaborate with Borenstein, who lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Talankin, speaking in Russian through a translator, said from the stage: "In the name of our future, in the name of all of our children, stop all of these wars now."
The TSA didn't immediately respond to queries Friday.
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