On Sunday, Sean Penn won his third Oscar for his performance in One Battle After Another. However, he was a no-show at the shindig. Where was the Best Supporting Actor? He was supporting the people of Ukraine in their country, who are in one battle after another with Russia.
In honor of his Hollywood sacrifice, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, the CEO of Ukrainian Railways, presented him with an Iron Oscar, which was made from the metal of a railcar that was destroyed by Russia.
Pertsovskyi wrote in Ukrainian (and I translated with Google), “We couldn’t leave Ukraine’s good friend and our beloved passenger without an award – so yesterday we presented Sean with the Iron Oscar! 🏆”
Assuming I know what Penn was thinking, I bet he preferred the iron one over the gold, especially since he gave Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy one of his past Oscar statuettes.
