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)