Director Pavel Talankin, who won the Academy Award for Best Documentary this year for his film Mr. Nobody Against Putin, has been reunited with his Oscar after a legendary screw-up from airport security. As we reported last night, the director was going through the security line at New York’s JFK airport when a TSA agent flagged his Oscar statuette as a safety hazard and a potential weapon. The director was told that the trophy would have to go in the hold, and since he didn’t have a bag for it, it was placed in a cardboard box that was promptly lost somewhere between the TSA line in New York and the Lufthansa terminal in Frankfurt, Germany.
