Russian filmmaker Pavel Talankin, co-director and star of the Academy Award-winning documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin, has lost his Oscar statuette after airport security in New York prevented him from carrying it onboard a flight. Talankin was travelling from John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday when officials stopped him at a security checkpoint, claiming the 3.8 kg trophy could pose a security risk. The decision forced him to check in the prestigious award, an outcome that would soon lead to its disappearance. “It’s completely baffling how they consider an Oscar a weapon… (I) flew with it in the cabin, and there never was any kind of problem,” Talankin told PTI from Frankfurt, Germany, where he , where he landed without the statuette. What happened at John F. Kennedy International Airport The filmmaker noted that he had travelled with the Oscar multiple times since winning it in March, always as carry-on luggage, without any issues.…