Sean Penn receives 'Oscar' made of war-damaged train metal in Ukraine

Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, CEO of Ukrainian Railways, presented Sean Penn with an Oscar-shaped award, made from a war-damaged railcar.

Sean Penn may not have been at the Oscars to receive his statuette for best supporting actor on Sunday night, but he has received perhaps an even more sentimental version of the award while visiting Ukraine this week.

Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, CEO of Ukrainian Railways, presented Penn with an Oscar-shaped award, which he calls the "Iron Oscar," on Tuesday, March 17. Penn, who received the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role as Steven. J. Lockjaw in "One Battle After Another," skipped the awards ceremony, as he was traveling to Ukraine. He was photographed in the country's capital, Kyiv, on Monday, March 16.

"You're missing Oscars so ... we made this one. This is from the rail of the railcar that was damaged by Russians. The metal survived so we put some words ... it's very special to us," Pertsovskyi told Penn, in a video shared to social media. "It's not golden but it's very real and from the bottom of our hearts."

An inscription on the back of the award reads: "This steel once carried millions of people away from war. Then a Russian missile came. We did not melt it into a weapon. We forged it into gratitude – for you. For your talent. For your courage to stand with Ukraine."

To date, Penn, 65, has received three Oscars. In 2009, he took home best actor for playing Harvey Milk in the LGBTQIA+ drama "Milk," and in 2004, he received the same award for playing Jimmy Markum in the crime-mystery "Mystic River."