Sean Penn won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor but he wasn’t in attendance at Sunday’s ceremony, reportedly due to European travel plans as he looked to visit Ukraine.
Penn, who won the Oscar for his role as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in “One Battle After Another,” has been a fierce advocate for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people following Russia’s invasion of the country in 2022.
The actor met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shortly thereafter and gave him his first statuette from his Oscar-winning performance in “Mystic River,” The Hollywood Reporter recently found.
At the time, Penn said that he hoped Zelenskyy, in holding onto the statuette, would be able to “bring it back to Malibu” when he defeated Russia.
After Penn was a no-show Sunday and presenter Kieran Culkin accepted his most-recent statuette in his absence, The New York Times reported that the actor wasn’t on hand as he planned to visit Ukraine as of late last week.
It’s unclear the reason for Penn’s visit, although his absence at Sunday’s ceremony arrives after he skipped the BAFTAs and Actor Awards, the Times noted.
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