Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\nSean Penn skipped the Oscars to visit Ukraine and received a symbolic statue made from damaged metal. Photo \/ Ukrainian railway company Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ), AFP<\/p>\n
US actor Sean Penn, who skipped Sunday\u2019s Oscars ceremony to visit Ukraine, has been gifted a symbolic version of the famous statuette made from the damaged metal of a train carriage hit in a Russian strike.<\/p>\n
\n Penn, a staunch backer of Kyiv, scooped the best supporting actor award at the
\n glitzy Hollywood ceremony for his role in dystopian dramedy One Battle After Another but chose to visit Ukraine instead of receiving the award in person.\n <\/p>\n
Penn is a vocal advocate for Ukraine and has visited the country several times since Russia invaded, including to co-direct a documentary about President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whom he calls a friend.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s state rail group said on Tuesday it wanted to make sure the star got his hands on the award \u2013 in one form or another \u2013 despite his trip to Kyiv.<\/p>\n
\u201cSean Penn came to Ukraine and missed the Academy Awards \u2013 so Ukrainian railway gave him one of his own,\u201d Ukrainian railways [Ukrzaliznytsia] said on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 17 Mar, 2026 07:19 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3376,8831,1558,3595,179719,168,17153,156,1444,71,39194,20733,3594,1362,1614,111,139,69,95086,2584,1840,207,8105,8221,3546,96822,179720,4485,23371,139437,11685,3461,13020,9863],"class_list":["post-335292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-an","tag-been","tag-by","tag-carriage","tag-ceremony","tag-damaged","tag-entertainment","tag-famous","tag-from","tag-gifted","tag-gives","tag-hit","tag-made","tag-metal","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oscar","tag-oscars","tag-penn","tag-rail","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-sean","tag-skipped","tag-statuette","tag-strike","tag-sundays","tag-symbolic","tag-train","tag-ukraine","tag-version","tag-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335292","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=335292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}