Charlton Heston
Planet of the Apes
(1968)
Michael Wilson (screenplay), Rod Serling (screenplay), Pierre Boulle (novel)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination.
Taylor and two other astronauts come out of deep hibernation to find that their ship has crashed. Escaping with little more than clothes they find that they have landed on a planet where men are pre-lingual and uncivilized while apes have learned speech and technology. Taylor is captured and taken to the city of the apes after damaging his throat so that he is silent and cannot communicate with the apes.
The Omega Man
(1971)
John William Corrington (screenplay), Joyce Hooper Corrington (screenplay), Richard Matheson (novel)
1 nomination.
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves "The Family". The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic. They believe science and technology to be the cause of the war and their punishment, and Neville, as the last symbol of science, the old world, and a "user of the wheel", must die. Neville, using electricity, machinery, and science attempts to hold them at bay.