Aktor Utama Terbaik (BAFTA)
Pemenang dan nomine > 1970-an

| Tahun | Aktor | Film | Karakter |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
1970 24: 
| 1970 24 | Robert Redford | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Sundance Kid |
| 1970 24 | Robert Redford | Downhill Racer | David Chappellet |
| 1970 24 | Robert Redford | Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper |
| 1970 24 | Elliott Gould | MASH | Trapper John McIntyre |
| 1970 24 | Elliott Gould | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Ted Henderson |
| 1970 24 | Paul Newman | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Butch Cassidy |
| 1970 24 | George C. Scott | Patton | George S. Patton |
1971 25: 
| 1971 25 | Peter Finch | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Dr. Daniel Hirsh |
| 1971 25 | Dirk Bogarde | Morte a Venezia | Gustav von Aschenbach |
| 1971 25 | Albert Finney | Gumshoe | Eddie Ginley |
| 1971 25 | Dustin Hoffman | Little Big Man | Jack Crabb |
1972 26: 
| 1972 26 | Gene Hackman | The French Connection | Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle |
| 1972 26 | Gene Hackman | The Poseidon Adventure | Reverend Frank Scott |
| 1972 26 | Marlon Brando | The Godfather | Vito Corleone |
| 1972 26 | Marlon Brando | The Nightcomers | Peter Quint |
| 1972 26 | George C. Scott | The Hospital | Dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock |
| 1972 26 | George C. Scott | They Might Be Giants | Justin Playfair |
| 1972 26 | Robert Shaw | Young Winston | Lord Randolph Churchill |
1973 27: 
| 1973 27 | Walter Matthau | Charley Varrick | Charley Varrick |
| 1973 27 | Walter Matthau | Pete 'n' Tillie | Pete |
| 1973 27 | Marlon Brando | Ultimo tango a Parigi | Paul |
| 1973 27 | Laurence Olivier | Sleuth | Andrew Wyke |
| 1973 27 | Donald Sutherland | Steelyard Blues | Jesse Veldini |
| 1973 27 | Donald Sutherland | Don't Look Now | John Baxter |
1974 28: 
| 1974 28 | Jack Nicholson | Chinatown | J.J. "Jake" Gittes |
| 1974 28 | Jack Nicholson | The Last Detail | Signalman 1st Class Billy "Badass" Buddusky |
| 1974 28 | Albert Finney | Murder on the Orient Express | Hercule Poirot |
| 1974 28 | Gene Hackman | The Conversation | Harry Caul |
| 1974 28 | Al Pacino | Serpico | Frank Serpico |
1975 29: 
| 1975 29 | Al Pacino | The Godfather Part II | Michael Corleone |
| 1975 29 | Al Pacino | Dog Day Afternoon | Sonny Wortzik |
| 1975 29 | Richard Dreyfuss | Jaws | Matt Hooper |
| 1975 29 | Gene Hackman | French Connection II | Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle |
| 1975 29 | Gene Hackman | Night Moves | Harry Moseby |
| 1975 29 | Dustin Hoffman | Lenny | Lenny Bruce |
1976 30: 
| 1976 30 | Jack Nicholson | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | R.P. McMurphy |
| 1976 30 | Robert De Niro | Taxi Driver | Travis Bickle |
| 1976 30 | Dustin Hoffman | All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein |
| 1976 30 | Dustin Hoffman | Marathon Man | Thomas "Babe" Levy |
| 1976 30 | Walter Matthau | The Bad News Bears | Morris Buttermaker |
| 1976 30 | Walter Matthau | The Sunshine Boys | Willy Clark |
1977 31: 
| 1977 31 | Peter Finch | Network | Howard Beale |
| 1977 31 | Woody Allen | Annie Hall | Alvy "Max" Singer |
| 1977 31 | William Holden | Network | Max Schumacher |
| 1977 31 | Sylvester Stallone | Rocky | Rocky Balboa |
1978 32: 
| 1978 32 | Richard Dreyfuss | The Goodbye Girl | Elliot Garfield |
| 1978 32 | Peter Ustinov | Death on the Nile | Hercule Poirot |
| 1978 32 | Anthony Hopkins | Magic | Corky Withers / Fats (suara) |
| 1978 32 | Brad Davis | Midnight Express | Billy Hayes |
1979 33: 
| 1979 33 | Jack Lemmon | The China Syndrome | Jack Godell |
| 1979 33 | Woody Allen | Manhattan | Isaac Davis |
| 1979 33 | Robert De Niro | The Deer Hunter | Sersan Michael "Mike" Vronsky |
| 1979 33 | Martin Sheen | Apocalypse Now | Kapten Benjamin L. Willard |