Could Top Gun: Maverick be on the highway to an Oscars danger zone?

There is new pressure on the Academy of Motion Pictures to rescind the Top Gun sequel's Oscar nominations.

And it centers around one of the men who helped finance the film.

The criticism is for a Russian oligarch and friend of Vladimir Putin who apparently put up several million dollars to make Top Gun: Maverick.

Elsa Ramo is an entertainment attorney & founder of Ramo Law PC, whose clients include New Line Cinema, Imagine Entertainment and many more.

More on the sometimes murky world of film financing:  the producers of Leonardo di Caprio's film "Wolf of Wall Street" had to pay $60 million in fines after money used to make that movie was tied to a scandal involving the Malaysian prime minister.