Where's my Oscar? Eight times Academy Awards trophies have gone missing

The coveted Oscars trophy has a long and rich history of going missing, for reasons ranging from burglary and ransom to simple misplacement - even pranks.

US actors Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto, Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges have all admitted to losing track of their gilded Academy Awards over the years.

One Oscar statuette was recovered this week after its winner was forced to check the trophy at a New York airport. Security officials told its owner, Mr Nobody Against Putin documentarian Pavel Talankin, that it could be used as weapon and couldn't be transported in his carry-on luggage.

The trophy was eventually found by Lufthansa, which said the airline is in direct contact with Talankin to arrange the statue's return.

It's the latest instance of the iconic statuettes vanishing and turning up in unexpected ways - if at all.

Here are a few other recent cases of missing Oscars, and the occasional mishaps that led to their recovery.

Missing Oscar found after Academy Award winner blocked from taking it on flight

Oscars lost in the Los Angeles wildfires can be replaced

Four-time Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood left three of her statuettes, along with three Baftas and two Emmy Awards, behind when her Pacific Palisades home was evacuated during the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles last year.

While her Oscar for Chicago was safely on display at the film academy's museum, the bronze-filled trophies she earned for her work on Memoirs of a Geisha and Alice in Wonderland completely melted, and the Oscar for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was barely recognisable after its golden overcoat was charred........

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