United Kingdom, May 4 -- Mr Nobody Against Putin star Pavel Talankin has won an apology over his missing Oscar.

The former school teacher was honoured for his work on the documentary - which he also co-directed - at the glitzy ceremony in Los Angeles in March taking the prize for Best Documentary Feature, but his golden statuette was taken away from him TSA agents at an airport in New York who decided the trophy could be used as a "weapon" and wouldn't allow Talankin to take the item in his hand luggage on the Lufthansa flight to Germany.

The Oscar went missing and Mr Nobody Against Putin's other co-director David Borenstein appealed for its return. Now officials at Lufthansa have confirmed they've found the statuette and issued an apol...