Sean Penn wasn’t in Hollywood Sunday to receive his third Academy Award, but the “One Battle After Another” actor proudly accepted a replicated Oscars trophy in Ukraine, where he arrived on Monday.

“You’re missing Oscars, so we made this one,” Ukrainian railways CEO Oleksandr Pertsovskyi said while presenting Penn with a statue made of metal from a Ukrainian railway carriage hit by Russian missiles.

Pertsovskyi conceded the flat, metal trophy he had to offer wasn’t made from gold like an Oscar statuette, but said “it’s very real and from the bottom of our hearts.”

“These are all treasures, thank you,” Penn replied in a moment broadcast by multiple media outlets.

The statue included an engraved message praising Penn for his talent and thanking the actor for his support.

Actor Kieran Culkin accepted Penn’s best supporting actor award on the 65-year-old actor’s behalf Sunday.

“He couldn’t be here tonight, or didn’t want to,” Culkin told Academy Awards show viewers.

Penn showed up in Kyiv the following day, where President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called him a “true friend” for continuing to support Ukraine four years into his country’s war with Russia.

When Penn visited Zelenskyy in 2022, it was the 48-year-old Ukrainian leader and former actor who received an Academy Award.

Penn loaned him the “symbolic silly thing” the Hollywood Reporter said he won for 2003’s “Mystic River.” Zelenskyy was asked to return the statue once his country had turned back the ongoing Russian invasion.

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