Oscar goes missing after Academy Award winner is blocked from taking it on flight

Talankin says he had the Academy Award in his carry-on bag for a flight to Germany on Wednesday, but airport security stopped him at John F Kennedy International Airport because they said the award could be used as a weapon.

But when he landed in Germany, the Oscar was gone.

Lufthansa airlines, which helped him pack the award in a box for the flight since Talankin didn't have a checked bag, said their team is treating the incident with "care and urgency" and they are doing a "comprehensive internal search" for the award.

"We deeply regret this situation," the airline said in a statement. "Our team is treating this matter with the utmost care and urgency, and we are conducting a comprehensive internal search to ensure the Oscar is found and returned as quickly as possible."

"This wouldn't have happened to Leonardo DiCaprio," she said.

Talankin, the co-director and protagonist of the Best Feature Documentary winner, travels with the award often to showcase at events at screenings.

During this trip in New York, he passed it around an audience of students at a university during a Q&A session after a screening of the documentary.

An Academy Award stands 13.5in tall (34cm) and weighs 8.5lb (3.9 kg). It reportedly costs from $400 to $1,000 to create the statuette.

Mr Nobody Against Putin is a documentary Talankin filmed documenting the ramping up of war propaganda in a Russian school, where he worked, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

He is now exiled from Russia for his own safety and living elsewhere in Europe.

Russia has banned the documentary from three streaming platforms on the grounds that it "propagates extremism and terrorism".

The former leader has not responded to US accusations that he is aiming to destabilise the government.

Politics have become an increasingly thorny issue in the Villages, Florida, which is home to 150,000 people.

Five students and one security guard were taken to hospital following the attack at Foss High School.

The Texas man allegedly refunded the orders of hundreds of catering-sized mac-and-cheese trays to his personal credit cards.

The CCTV shows an officer draw a firearm and open fire as the suspect sprints past.