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.

Year = Year of ceremony

*This year the actor's nomination was thanks to his performance in two films; name either
**Win shared with a film that did receive a Best Picture nomination

Each actor is hinted at with another film of his

Also try the Best Actress equivalent

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Year	Hint	Film	Best Actor
1929*	Der blaue Engel	The Last Command / The Way of All Flesh	Emil Jannings
1931	It's a Wonderful Life	A Free Soul	Lionel Barrymore
1932**	The Best Years of Our Lives	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Fredric March
1948	Random Harvest	A Double Life	Ronald Colman
1951	The Caine Mutiny	Cyrano de Bergerac	José Ferrer
1952	The Big Sleep	The African Queen	Humphrey Bogart
1954	Sunset Boulevard	Stalag 17	William Holden
1966	The Dirty Dozen	Cat Ballou	Lee Marvin
1969	Three Days of the Condor	Charly	Cliff Robertson
1970	The Searchers	True Grit	John Wayne
1974	Some Like It Hot	Save the Tiger	Jack Lemmon
1975	Going in Style	Harry and Tonto	Art Carney
1987	The Verdict	The Color of Money	Paul Newman
1988	Fatal Attraction	Wall Street	Michael Douglas
1991	The Man in the Iron Mask	Reversal of Fortune	Jeremy Irons
1994	Cast Away	Philadelphia	Tom Hanks
1996	Con Air	Leaving Las Vegas	Nicolas Cage
2002	Malcolm X	Training Day	Denzel Washington
2007	Arrival	The Last King of Scotland	Forest Whitaker
2010	The Big Lebowski	Crazy Heart	Jeff Bridges
2023	The Mummy	The Whale	Brendan Fraser