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A new trailer has been released for the upcoming biopic 鈥淛ackie,鈥� which stars Natalie Portman and could find the actress as the latest person to be nominated for an Academy Award for playing a real person.聽

鈥淛ackie鈥� stars Ms. Portman as former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and depicts her life following the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. The film co-stars Peter Sarsgaard as Robert Kennedy, John Carroll Lynch as Lyndon Johnson, and Greta Gerwig as Nancy Tuckerman as well as Billy Crudup and John Hurt.

The new trailer includes the title song from the musical 鈥淐amelot,鈥� a show that was famously associated with the Kennedy administration.聽

Portman won an Oscar for Best Actress previously for the 2010 movie 鈥淏lack Swan.鈥澛�

So far the film has received very positive reviews (it will open in a limited release this December) and so some are positing that Portman could receive another nomination at the very least, if not another statuette.聽

If she received a nomination, she would become the newest actor to receive Oscars acclaim for portraying a real person.聽

Of the last five Best Actor winners, four won the award for portraying a real person in a film (Jean Dujardin breaks the streak for playing fictional actor George Valentin in 鈥淭he Artist,鈥� disrupting a pattern set by winners including Leonardo DiCaprio, who played real-life trapper Hugh Glass in 鈥淭he Revenant,鈥� and Eddie Redmayne, who played Stephen Hawking in 鈥淭he Theory of Everything,鈥� among other winners).聽

The recent Best Actress winners have many more fictional characters among them, but the nominations list for that prize are full of performances based on real-life figures, including Jennifer Lawrence for playing Joy Mangano in 鈥淛oy,鈥� Reese Witherspoon for playing Cheryl Strayed in 鈥淲ild,鈥� and Felicity Jones for portraying Jane Wilde-Hawking in 鈥淭he Theory of Everything.鈥澛�

Why does the Academy look with favor on these actors who take on real-life figures?

It鈥檚 been the case for some time, as wrote in 2008 that 鈥淥scar tends to favor actors playing real people ... 聽It's hard to pinpoint what makes Oscar voters tilt this way. But one likely factor is a frame of reference: Philip Seymour Hoffman acting and sounding like Capote probably will move the voter more than Terrence Howard's acting and sounding like Djay from 鈥楬ustle & Flow,鈥� a person the Academy member has never seen outside the movie.鈥�

And wrote last year, 鈥淚t's become an almost surefire way to win Oscar gold: Play a real person.鈥澛�

Tom O鈥橬eil of the awards site Goldderby.com told CNN, 鈥淚 think the outsized portrayal of a real-life person is irresistible to them.鈥�