EXCLUSIVE: Pasha Talankin’s Oscar for Mr. Nobody Against Putin has disappeared after TSA officials at JFK airport in New York refused to let him board a flight with the statuette, declaring it could be used as a weapon. Talankin, the co-director and protagonist of the Best Feature Documentary winner, tells Deadline he has flown a dozen or more times with the Oscar since earning the award in March, each time without incident. But when he showed up at a security checkpoint at JFK’s Terminal 1 on Wednesday, a TSA agent told him he couldn’t take the Oscar – which weighs 8.5 lbs. – on board. “It’s completely baffling how they consider an Oscar a weapon,” Talankin told us from Frankfurt, Germany, where he arrived Thursday morning on a Lufthansa flight. On previous flights on various airlines, he said, “[I] flew with it in the cabin and there never was any kind of problem.” Pavel Talankin with his Oscar statuette near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on March 27, 2026.…