Edward Norton Academy Award for Best Actor. Later, Norton starred with Matt Damon in "Rounders", which follows two friends who urgently need to earn enough cash playing poker to pay off a huge debt. In David Fincher's 1999 film "Fight Club", Norton played an unreliable narrator who feels trapped in his white-collar position. It is based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name. To prepare for the role, Norton took lessons in boxing, taekwondo and grappling. "Fight Club" premiered at the 1999 Venice International Film Festival. During promotion for the film, he said, "I feel that "Fight Club" really, in a
Lullaby (Palahniuk novel) and struggled with his stance on capital punishment. Over the next few months he began working on "Lullaby". According to him it was a way to cope with the decision he had to make regarding Shackleford's death. In the spring of 2001 Shackleford was found guilty for two counts of murder in the first degree. A month after Palahniuk finished "Lullaby", Shackleford was sentenced to death. On May 17, 2016, a Kickstarter campaign was launched aimed at adapting the novel "Lullaby" into a feature film. The film will be directed by Andy Mingo, who previously directed the short film "Romance",