Best Actress Wins Without Best Picture Nomination

There are thirty-six films that have won the Academy Award for Best Actress without being nominated for Best Picture. Name them all, as well as the actresses who received the statuettes.

Year = Year of ceremony

*Win shared with two films that did receive a Best Picture nomination
**Concerns that year's first ceremony

Each actress is hinted at with another film of hers; one actress is included twice with two different hints

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Year	Hint	Film	Best Actress
1929*	A Star Is Born	Street Angel	Janet Gaynor
1930**	Stella Maris	Coquette	Mary Pickford
1931	Dinner at Eight	Min and Bill	Marie Dressler
1932	Airport	The Sin of Madelon Claudet	Helen Hayes
1934	The Lion in Winter	Morning Glory	Katharine Hepburn
1936	All About Eve	Dangerous	Bette Davis
1947	The Snake Pit	To Each His Own	Olivia de Havilland
1948	The Stranger	The Farmer's Daughter	Loretta Young
1953	The Matchmaker	Come Back, Little Sheba	Shirley Booth
1957	Spellbound	Anastasia	Ingrid Bergman
1958	Rachel, Rachel	The Three Faces of Eve	Joanne Woodward
1959	The Snows of Kilimanjaro	I Want to Live!	Susan Hayward
1961	Cleopatra	BUtterfield 8	Elizabeth Taylor
1962	Una giornata particolare	La ciociara	Sophia Loren
1963	The Graduate	The Miracle Worker	Anne Bancroft
1964	A Face in the Crowd	Hud	Patricia Neal
1970	Gosford Park	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Maggie Smith
1971	A Touch of Class	Women in Love	Glenda Jackson
1972	The China Syndrome	Klute	Jane Fonda
1975	Requiem for a Dream	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Ellen Burstyn
1983	Out of Africa	Sophie's Choice	Meryl Streep
1986	Interiors	The Trip to Bountiful	Geraldine Page
1989	Contact	The Accused	Jodie Foster
1991	Fried Green Tomatoes	Misery	Kathy Bates
1995	Tootsie	Blue Sky	Jessica Lange
1996	Thelma & Louise	Dead Man Walking	Susan Sarandon
2000	Million Dollar Baby	Boys Don't Cry	Hilary Swank
2002	Die Another Day	Monster's Ball	Halle Berry
2004	Mad Max: Fury Road	Monster	Charlize Theron
2006	Legally Blonde	Walk the Line	Reese Witherspoon
2008	Inception	La Môme	Marion Cotillard
2012	The Post	The Iron Lady	Meryl Streep
2014	Babel	Blue Jasmine	Cate Blanchett
2015	Magnolia	Still Alice	Julianne Moore
2020	Jerry Maguire	Judy	Renée Zellweger
2022	Zero Dark Thirty	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Jessica Chastain