Oscars: 10 Films That Should Have Won Best Picture (But Didn't)

First rule of fight club? You do not talk about fight club. And it looks like the Academy took this a little too seriously when Fight Club failed to pick up a Best Pic nomination in the Oscars of 2000.

With unbridled performances, deliberately dingy cinematography and a mind-bending story, David Fincher’s adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk book brought a raw form of violence to viewers that left them feeling bruised and battered come the credits. With a pitch-perfect confidence, Fight Club punched, burned and shot its way through the depressive state of the unnamed Narrator (played by Edward Norton) and even went as far to impose a single frame of a man’s private parts as a last gag in the film’s final moments.

While admittedly due to moments such as this, Fight Club is most definitely against type for the Oscars, it can still be easily argued as a better film than that year’s winner, Gladiator. With an ironically undeniable sense of identity Fight Club easily stands out as a poor show of voters’ misjudgment.

To follow on from a film just as good, if not better than Se7en, Fincher proved himself as one of the best directors of the 90s, and the Academy should be beating themselves up Tyler Durden-style for missing out on this instant classic.