BAFTA for Best Actor

2008 - Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
2007 - Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
2006 - Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
2005 - Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
2004 - Jamie Foxx - Ray 
2003 - Bill Murray - Lost in Translation
2002 - Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York
2001 - Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind
2000 - Jamie Bell - Billy Elliot 
1999 - Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
1998 - Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) 
1997 - Robert Carlyle - The Full Monty 
1996 - Geoffrey Rush - Shine 
1995 - Nigel Hawthorne - The Madness of King George
1994 - Hugh Grant - Four Weddings and a Funeral
1993 - Anthony Hopkins - Shadowlands
1992 - Robert Downey Jr. - Chaplin
1991 - Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
1990 - Philippe Noiret - Nuovo cinema Paradiso 
1989 - Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot 
1988 - John Cleese - A Fish Called Wanda
1987 - Sean Connery - Der Name der Rose 
1986 - Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa 
1985 - William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman
1984 - Haing S. Ngor - The Killing Fields 
1983 - Michael Caine - Educating Rita
1982 - Ben Kingsley - Gandhi
1981 - Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City
1980 - John Hurt - The Elephant Man
1979 - Jack Lemmon - The China Syndrome 
1978 - Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
1977 - Peter Finch - Network
1976 - Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 - Al Pacino - The Godfather Part II
1974 - Jack Nicholson - Chinatown
1973 - Walter Matthau - Charley Varrick 
1972 - Gene Hackman - The French Connection
1971 - Peter Finch - Sunday Bloody Sunday
1970 - Robert Redford - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 - Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy
1968 - Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Prior to 1968 two BAFTAs were given - one for Best British Actor and one for Best Foreign Actor.

1967 - Best Foreign Actor - Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night
          - Best British Actor - Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons 
1966 - Best Foreign Actor - Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker
          - Best British Actor - Richard Burton - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 
1965 - Best Foreign Actor - Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou
          - Best British Actor - Dirk Bogarde - Darling
1964 - Best Foreign Actor - Marcello Mastroianni - Ieri, oggi, domani
          - Best British Actor - Richard Attenborough - Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1963 - Best Foreign Actor - Marcello Mastroianni - Divorzio all'italiana
          - Best British Actor - Dirk Bogarde - The Servant 
1962 - Best Foreign Actor - Burt Lancaster - Birdman of Alcatraz
          - Best British Actor - Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia
1961 - Best Foreign Actor - Paul Newman - The Hustler
          - Best British Actor - Peter Finch - No Love for Johnnie
1960 - Best Foreign Actor - Jack Lemmon - The Apartment
          - Best British Actor - Peter Finch - The Trials of Oscar Wilde 
1959 - Best Foreign Actor - Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot
          - Best British Actor - Peter Sellers - I'm All Right Jack 
1958 - Best Foreign Actor - Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones
          - Best British Actor - Trevor Howard - The Key
1957 - Best Foreign Actor - Henry Fonda - 12 Angry Men
          - Best British Actor - Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai 
1956 - Best Foreign Actor - François Périer - Gervaise
          - Best British Actor - Peter Finch - A Town Like Alice 
1955 - Best Foreign Actor - Ernest Borgnine - Marty
          - Best British Actor - Laurence Olivier - Richard III 
1954 - Best Foreign Actor - Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
          - Best British Actor- Kenneth More - Doctor in the House
1953 - Best Foreign Actor - Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar
          - Best British Actor - John Gielgud - Julius Caesar 
1952 - Best Foreign Actor - Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata!
          - Best British Actor - Ralph Richardson - The Sound Barrier