Real-life couple Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, both Oscar winners, marked a record milestone for being nominated at the 94th Academy Awards.  

Cruz is up for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Parallel Mothers, while husband Bardem is a Best Actor in a Leading Role nominee for his turn as Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos.

Bardem won an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for No Country for Old Men in 2008, and Cruz won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Vicky Cristina Barcelona in 2009. 

Bardem is the recipient of various other accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, British Academy Film Award, five Goya Awards, two Venice Film Festival Volpi Cups for Best Actor, and a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor (tied with Elio Germano).

Cruz is married to Spanish actor Javier Bardem. Bardem was her co-star in her breakthrough role as Silvia in Jamón, Jamón (1992), as well as starring alongside her in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). They were also both in the 2013 film The Counselor, as well as in Everybody Knows in 2018. Cruz began dating Bardem in 2007 and they married in early July 2010 in a private ceremony at a friend's home in the Bahamas.

Dunst, meanwhile, is nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Power of the Dog, which likewise earned fiancé Plemons a nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. This is the first Oscar nomination for each performer. (The couple has been together since 2016 and have two children.)

The first couple to be Oscar nominated in the same year was Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1932.