151 edward snowden can take a joke the star of the oscarwinning documentary citizenfour was not able to attend the glitzy bash on sunday for some treason host neil patrick harris quipped after the filmmakers thanked the whistleblower for his courage oscars 2015 top 5 moments from the show 2015 oscar winners complete list oscars 2015 how stephen hawking reacted to eddie redmaynes win for best actor snowden has been living in russia for more than a year after he was granted asylum he is wanted in the united states under the federal espionage act for revealing classified national security agency information meaning a return to the united states would likely be out of the question unless he wanted to surrender in a reddit ask me anything interview with the team behind citizenfour snowden said he laughed at nph i dont think it was meant as a political statement but even if it was thats not so bad snowden said of the oscar hosts clever play on words my perspective is if youre not willing to be called a few names to help out your country you dont care enough