Oscars: 11 Couples Nominated In the Same Year

BEN AFFLECK AND MATT DAMON
NOMINATED FOR: Good Will Hunting (1997)

ELIZABETH TAYLOR AND RICHARD BURTON
NOMINATED FOR: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

LAURENCE OLIVIER AND VIVIEN LEIGH
NOMINATED FOR: Wuthering Heights and Gone With the Wind (1939)

PAUL NEWMAN AND JOANNE WOODWARD
NOMINATED FOR: Rachel, Rachel (1968)

KATHARINE HEPBURN AND SPENCER TRACY
NOMINATED FOR: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

GLEN HANSARD AND MARKETA IRGLOVA
NOMINATED FOR: Once (2006)

WILLIAM HURT AND MARLEE MATLIN
NOMINATED FOR: Children of a Lesser God (1986)

HEATH LEDGER AND MICHELLE WILLIAMS
NOMINATED FOR: Brokeback Mountain (2005)

TIM ROBBINS AND SUSAN SARANDONNOMINATED FOR:
Dead Man Walking (1995)


FRANCES MCDORMAND AND JOEL COEN NOMINATED FOR: Fargo (1996)
BRAD PITT AND ANGELINA JOLIENOMINATED FOR:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Changeling (2008)