However, the Oscar voters surprisingly failed to give Fiennes a third nomination to add to Schindler's List and The English Patient.
While running for reelection, Harrison had appointed his third justice the previous July; he made a fourth nomination to the high court, despite his dwindling White House tenure.
Her grandmother Mary Foulke Morrisson was a leading suffragist; two months before the 19th Amendment was ratified and women gained the right to vote, she gave a seconding nomination to Herbert Hoover's ultimately failed attempt to gain the presidential bid at the 1920 Republican Convention.
Just a year later, she shed the pounds gained for that project to earn a second nomination for Chicago, only to yoyo again to embody Jones for 2004's ill-fated sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
In 1952 they earned a second nomination for "The Sniper".
Other recent Presidents, when given a chance for a second nomination, have returned to the remaining names on their original list.
Kathryn Bigelow, director In 2009, Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director, and with her new film, Zero Dark Thirty, is well on her way to a second nomination.
If it cannot, the president has a chance to make a second nomination who, this time, needs only a simple majority of half the Sejm.
And this weekend, Dame Helen is up for a Bafta (her fifth nomination to date) for her portrayal of Reville.
A second nomination is expected shortly.
The Obama Administration wanted to send a message with the President's first nomination to a federal court.
