I'm sure there's more, but the small list above - Dev Patel, Dwayne Johnson, Tommy Chong, Neel Sethi, Auli'i Cravalho, George Takei, Ted Chiang, Tzi Ma, Nicole Scherzinger, Ai-Ling Lee - in some way are either associated with a film that is nominated for an Oscar by being in it, or they have been nominated themselves for an award.