The Oscar statuette belonging to Pavel Talankin, the Russian director who won ​best documentary this year for ‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’, has gone missing after ‌he was forced to check the award ​into hold luggage on a flight from New ⁠York to Germany, his co-director said.

Talankin was due to fly from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Frankfurt on German ‌carrier Lufthansa. But Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents told him that the 8.5 lb (3.8 kg) statuette ‌posed a potential security threat, his co-director David Borenstein ‌said ⁠on Thursday.