Best Actor Winners in Films Not Nominated For Best Picture
Emil Jannings - The Last Command (1928)/The Way of All Flesh (1927) Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul (1931) Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) Ronald Colman - A Double Life (1947) Jose Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen (1951) William Holden - Stalag 17 (1953) Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou (1965) Cliff Robertson - Charly (1968) John Wayne - True Grit (1969) Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger (1973) Art Carney - Harry and Tonto (1974) Paul Newman - The Color of Money (1986) Michael Douglas - Wall Street (1987) Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune (1990) Tom Hanks - Philadelphia (1993) Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas (1995) Denzel Washington - Training Day (2001) Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland (2006) Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart (2009) Brendan Fraser - The Whale (2022)