{"id":334770,"date":"2026-03-17T23:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334770\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:47:07","slug":"sean-penn-receives-oscar-in-ukraine-after-skipping-us-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334770\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Penn receives &#8216;Oscar&#8217; in Ukraine after skipping US ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">US actor Sean Penn has been gifted an Oscar-shaped award made from war-damaged rail metal by Ukraine, after he skipped Sunday&#8217;s ceremony to visit the war-torn country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Penn, 65, won his third Academy Award for his supporting actor role in political thriller One Battle Another but was absent from the ceremony. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a video posted by Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, the CEO of Ukrainian Railways, Pertsovskyi tells Penn: &#8220;You&#8217;re missing Oscars&#8230; So we made this one. This is from the railcar that was damaged by the Russians&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A long-time advocate for Ukraine, Penn has visited several times since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of the country four years ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-europe-63561236\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">He gifted one of his Oscars<\/a> to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c33jkvmzl4ko\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More on this story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US actor Sean Penn has been gifted an Oscar-shaped award made from war-damaged rail metal by Ukraine, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-334770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}