Massey was the son of actor Raymond Massey and Coward's godson. Coward received Oscar nominations for Best Screenplay and as producer of the Best Picture In Which We Serve (1943). He also received a Special Oscar in 1942 for "his outstanding production achievement for In Which We Serve." He received the Special Oscar and the nominations in different years because the film opened in early January of 1943, not in time to be considered for that year's competitive categories but in time to resonate enough with the voters to receive the special honor.

Hellman was nominated for Best Screenplay for The Little Foxes (1941) and The North Star (1943).

Chaplin was nominated for Best Actor for The Circus (1927/28) and The Great Dictator (1940), Best Comedy Direction for The Circus (1927/28 - the only year that award was given), Best Screenplay for The Great Dictator (1940) and Monsieur Verdoux (1947), and producer of the Best Picture for The Great Dictator (1940). He won the Best Original Dramatic Score Oscar for Limelight (1972) and two Special Oscars: for "versatility and genius for writing, acting and directing The Circus" (1927/28) and for lifetime achievement (1971). Some sources do not list Chaplin's nominations for The Circus after the Academy did some housekeeping in the 1990s and declared that those nominations were nullified by the Special Award, but madbeast.com still recognizes the honors.

The Aviator suggested that Howard Hughes was a Hollywood neophyte when he made Hell's Angels, but he was in fact already a successful producer who had made films that were honored at the very first Oscar ceremony in 1927/28. His production of Two Arabian Knights won the only award ever given for Comedy Direction to Lewis Milestone, and Hughes' production of The Racket was nominated for Best Picture (he lost to Lucien Hubbard for Wings). Hughes was nominated again in 1930/31 for producing the Best Picture nominee The Front Page. Some references do not list Hughes as a nominee because while he did produce the films nominated for Best Picture, he is not listed on the film's credits (much like Irving G. Thalberg, winner for Grand Hotel and Mutiny on the Bounty). The individual who actually received the nomination for the Best Picture award has frequently been confused, especially in those years when studio heads accepted the award for Best Picture instead of the actual producer of the film (such as when Jack Warner raced to the stage to accept the award for Casablanca ahead of producer Hal B. Wallis, which prompted Wallis to leave the studio later that year, or when Paramount head Buddy DeSylva accepted the Going My Way Best Picture Oscar instead of producer Leo McCarey). Madbeast.com does acknowledge Hughes' nominations.

Hepburn is the most honored actress in Oscar history, being nominated for Best Actress for Morning Glory (1933), Alice Adams (1935), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Woman of the Year (1942), The African Queen (1951), Summertime (1955), The Rainmaker (1956), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981). She is the only performer to win four acting Oscars, for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981).

Olivier is the co-holder of the record for the most Best Actor nominations (9, tied with Spencer Tracy) in addition to a Best Supporting Actor nod for Marathon Man and a Best Director nomination for Hamlet. He won the Best Actor Oscar for Hamlet (1948) as well as Best Picture for his production and Special Awards for his landmark film adaptation of Henry V (1946) and for lifetime achievement. Branagh's career paralleled Olivier in several interesting ways, with both actors having starred in and directed films of Henry V (1946/1989) (for which Branagh received Best Actor and Best Director nominations) and Hamlet (1948/1996) (a curious Best Adapted Screenplay nod for Branagh, who filmed Shakespeare's play almost uncut), and acted in films of Othello (1965/1995) (with Olivier as Othello and Branagh as Iago). Branagh also directed film remakes of two of Olivier's acting successes, As You Like It (2006) (in which Olivier played the juvenile lead Orlando in 1937 in what is arguably the first completely successful film of a Shakespearean play) and Sleuth (2007) (for which Olivier received a Best Actor nomination in addition to the New York Film Critics Award for the 1972 original).

* Blanchett was also nominated for playing folk singer Jude Quinn in I'm Not There in 2007, one of the film's depictions of Bob Dylan. Dylan won the 2000 Oscar for Best Song for "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys.

Nominated performers who have played fictional nominees include:
Janet Gaynor as Vicki Lester in A Star is Born (1937)
Fredric March as Norman Maine in A Star is Born (1937)**
Bette Davis as Margaret Elliot in The Star (1952)
Judy Garland as Vicki Lester in A Star is Born (1954)
Maggie Smith as Diana Barrie in California Suite (1978)

**In the 1937 version of A Star is Born, Norman Maine (March) drunkenly storms the stage while his wife is accepting an Oscar and mentions winning the award himself a few years previously. In the 1954 remake in which James Mason played the role, there is no reference to Maine being an Oscar winner.