Weird Observations For or Between Possible Nominees?

Oldman and Manville obviously connected - by the way, have enough people seen The Firm on here because, it's really one of his all-time best.

Oldman beating his main rival for British actor of his generation (ok, he's a distant 2nd but still), from that era when they were husband and wife.

James Franco has done more movies based on real life artists (or films) at his age than I can think of - Interior Leather Bar (this is like the warm up for The Disaster Artist kinda),  Broken Tower, Color Of Time, Howl, 

Bening may get nominated (are we underestimating?) for playing Gloria Grahame whom she used to get compared to all the time - how many actors get that shot? I mean really that's rare - like if Branagh got to play Olivier - um, well, besides that lol

What are some others observations on the field/potential field? These aren't that good, but there's always interesting marginalia/trivia stuff that others know about.