Hollywood veteran Sean Penn has added a third, deeply symbolic Oscar to his collection, but it didn't come from the Dolby Theatre. While the 65-year-old actor was announced as the winner of Best Supporting Actor for Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another on Sunday, 15 March 2026, he was thousands of miles away in Kyiv.
On Tuesday, 17 March, Penn was presented with a unique, flat silver statuette forged from the salvaged metal of a Ukrainian railway car destroyed by a Russian missile. Handed to him by Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) CEO Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, the 'Iron Oscar' serves as a tribute to Penn's unwavering solidarity with the nation.
