Best Actor Wins Without Best Picture Nomination

There are twenty-two films that have won the Academy Award for Best Actor without being nominated for Best Picture. Name them all, as well as the actors who received the statuettes.

*Concern the same statuette

**Win shared with a film that did receive a Best Picture nomination

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Year of Ceremony	Film	Best Actor
1929*	The Last Command	Emil Jannings
1929*	The Way of All Flesh	Emil Jannings
1931	A Free Soul	Lionel Barrymore
1932**	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Fredric March
1948	A Double Life	Ronald Colman
1951	Cyrano de Bergerac	José Ferrer
1952	The African Queen	Humphrey Bogart
1954	Stalag 17	William Holden
1966	Cat Ballou	Lee Marvin
1969	Charly	Cliff Robertson
1970	True Grit	John Wayne
1974	Save the Tiger	Jack Lemmon
1975	Harry and Tonto	Art Carney
1987	The Color of Money	Paul Newman
1988	Wall Street	Michael Douglas
1991	Reversal of Fortune	Jeremy Irons
1994	Philadelphia	Tom Hanks
1996	Leaving Las Vegas	Nicolas Cage
2002	Training Day	Denzel Washington
2007	The Last King of Scotland	Forest Whitaker
2010	Crazy Heart	Jeff Bridges
2023	The Whale	Brendan Fraser