James Caan
Rollerball
(1975)
William Harrison (screenplay)
Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations.
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
The Godfather
(1972)
Mario Puzo (screenplay), Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay), Mario Puzo (novel)
Won 3 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 27 nominations.
When the aging head of a famous crime family decides to transfer his position to one of his subalterns, a series of unfortunate events start happening to the family, and a war begins between all the well-known families leading to insolence, deportation, murder and revenge, and ends with the favorable successor being finally chosen.