Sean Penn presented 'IronOscar' forged from war-damaged railcar after skipping Oscars

The 65-year-old actor skipped Sunday night’s Academy Awards and flew to war-torn Ukraine, meeting President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv while Hollywood gathered at the Dolby Theatre. He won the Oscar for best supporting actor for One Battle After Another in his absence.

In Kyiv, Ukrainian Railways CEO Oleksandr Pertsovskyi presented Penn with a handmade 'IronOscar' forged from metal taken from a railcar destroyed by a Russian missile. Pertsovskyi told him, "You’re missing the Oscars. Plus, you gave the last one to the president.

So we made this one. You said the metals survived, so we put some words here that are very special to us. It’s not golden, but it’s very real, and it’s from the bottom of our hearts. It’s important to us." An emotional Penn embraced Pertsovskyi and replied, "These are all treasures, thank you." The statuette carries an inscription etched into its back: "This steel once carried millions of people away from war.

Ukraine, Kyiv

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