'' Cineaste '' s Gary Crowdus reviewed the critical reception in retrospect : " Many critics praised '' Fight Club '' , hailing it as one of the most exciting , original , and thought-provoking films of the year . " He wrote of the negative opinion , " While '' Fight Club '' had numerous critical champions , the film 's critical attackers were far more vocal , a negative chorus which became hysterical about what they felt to be the excessively graphic scenes of fisticuffs ... They felt such scenes served only as a mindless glamorization of brutality , a morally irresponsible portrayal , which they feared might encourage impressionable young male viewers to set up their own real-life fight clubs in order to beat each other senseless . " '' Fight Club '' was nominated for the 2000 Academy Award for Best Sound Editing , but it lost to '' The Matrix '' . Bonham Carter won the 2000 Empire Award for Best British Actress . The Online Film Critics Society also nominated '' Fight Club '' for Best Film , Best Director , Best Actor ( Norton ) , Best Editing , and Best Adapted Screenplay ( Uhls ) . Though the film won none of the awards , the organization listed '' Fight Club '' as one of the top ten films of 1999 . The soundtrack was nominated for a BRIT Award , losing to '' Notting Hill ''
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